I would say you, Molly and Clix-Pix are my favorite photographers in here (Hughmac, anotherscotsman and darmok as well), my question would be for you, do you find various animals/ plants every day to take photos of? Or is this like from a backlog that you have? The only reason I ask, is you have such an extensive history of posting wildlife on here, it amazes me that you’re able to find such unique photos on your daily adventures that you photoed probably hundreds of animals/plants.
Why, thank you, Relentless Power!!! Like Molly, I tend to shoot nearly every day although I am not doing a formal 365 POTD. I just like picking up a camera and shooting something, and around here there is plenty to shoot! I am fortunate enough to live on a small lake and we have wildlife ranging from backyard birds to squirrels to ducks, geese, Great Blue Heron, Yellow-Crowned Night Heron, turtles, etc., etc. Sometimes I will glance out my sliding glass door and see some interesting action going on among the birds on the lake and will grab a camera and run out to the deck to capture the fun.
Sometimes the wildlife will come to me, too, as I found last summer when for a while I put birdseed out on my deck and not only the sparrows came but a few squirrels as well! I had such fun with my little furred and feathered friends but unfortunately my neighbors in my condominium building didn't enjoy them as much as I did so I reluctantly had to stop putting the treats out there..... Instead now I sometimes take birdseed and nuts out to our common grounds area and distribute the treats around there for them.
In cold or inclement weather when going outside is not a good idea, I enjoy setting up a tabletop shoot and getting out the macro lens, seeing what I can do with interesting objects that I have around the house. Occasionally I will buy flowers at the store, too, to bring in a reminder of springtime and warmer weather even as I shoot indoors. I love macro work and I love reaching out at a distance with a long lens, too -- both kinds of shooting contribute vastly to my enjoyment of photography.
I've been shooting for many, many years and quite a few years ago was active in the POTD thread but then had a period of time when I shot very little and so stopped contributing. A couple of years ago I slowly started getting back into things again, and for a while I shared some older, favorite images from the past here, mixed in with newer stuff until I realized one day that I was shooting frequently again and that I much preferred having something new to share each day. Usually I will shoot at some point during the day, but don't always get around to editing right away, so often I'll share whatever I had shot the day before or perhaps an image from earlier in the week. I rarely shoot just one or two frames at a time -- I can easily spend an hour addressing a subject from different angles and perspectives! I like finding something intriguing and interesting about even the most mundane of objects. As a friend on another forum says, art is everywhere! Sometimes I will shoot two or three different subjects at different times during a given day with different lenses or different cameras if something comes along later in the day which demands capturing for posterity.
During the pandemic I have been sticking pretty close to home but in better times I enjoy going out to various local gardens and scenic locations to shoot, too. I'm looking forward to the time when I can do more of that again!
