f/9.5 1/30s iso 40This is our dock out on the lake, were we put in to run the river. That evening the water was still allowing for good reflection .
f/8.0 1/30 iso 200
we have a little play ground set up here. This was early morning with dew still on everything, maybe the next post won’t have any reflections.
things here are good. new zealand weather is crazy, it is raining, and then 5 minutes latter sunny. the catuna is awsome, i ran the river once, getting worked in all three holes at the borrom of the 10, 12 and 18 foot water falls. in the last one i went to pull off my skirt and swim out, becase the hole was not letting me go, and found that it was already off.
the hole at the bottom of the run is sweet. i have learned how to cartwheel and loop there. (cartweel means bow under water and then sterna dn so oen and so forth, loop is bow underwater and then do a flip in the boat). things are good, and i will try to post weekly.
So, this is a photo I recently took in Massachusetts. NRA was staying at our coach, Tino Specht’s house. They live and work an organic farm, and their gardens are gorgeous. Their property is total photographer’s heaven. I took a ton of pictures of the flowers, still in full bloom. The colors were beyond amazing. What I love about the picture shown here, is that it is full of natural beauty. One of my favorite parts of photography is the ability to capture just the immense range of sights that occur in nature. Part of being a photographer is “making” shots, not just taking them. Although I do love the satisfaction of creating a good shot, and I did pull grass and other flowers away from this flower and tilt it more into the light to make it a better shot, there is something so fluid and basic about just capturing the essense of nature’s. 
