You Capture - Animals

Our You Capture challenge this week was to capture animals. This should have been one of my favorites and one of my best. I spend half my life taking pictures of animals. After all, I don't have children around all the time to capture and I spend a lot of time observing and photographing the wildlife at Striebel pond.

Of course the swans are going to hog up a lot of the room on this post but first here are a couple of other birds, a grebe and some geese.

I had to include this shot because this guy swam right up to me and smiled. He actually wanted his picture taken.

The wingspan displayed in this picture was very impressive to me.

Then the swans got a little crazy and I had to photograph them. These photos would never win in a photography contest since they're so dark but I'm including them because of their content and the fact that if it weren't for Beth and You Capture, I wouldn't have them at all. They were far too distant for my flash and it was way too dark to shoot in auto. Thanks, Beth, for the little bit of knowledge I had that let me shoot in manual and capture the moments.

The money shot.

Then there was this little amphibian visiting the small pond at home. What is it? Frog? Toad?

Of course, I'm always on the lookout for deer when I visit Striebel Pond and this week, I caught a couple.
The end. Finally right?

For animals of every kind, visit Beth at Ishouldbefoldinglaundry.