You know how some weeks are kind of long? This week was that way for me. Not that it was a bad week, it was just a very full week. So, when I saw that this week’s photo challenge at WordPress was future tense, I thought I would show you what I was looking forward to all week:
ISO 800 50mm 0ev f/4.5 1/500
I was really looking forward to being outside for awhile this week. I stopped at Lone Elk Park which is a State Park in Missouri. These elk were pretty close to the road, so I actually stayed in my car so I wouldn’t startle them.
The prompt at WordPress also indicated that since it was still phoneography month, I should also take some pictures with my phone. So I did. Definitely one those times where the camera phone just isn’t enough:
Also, I’m wondering if phoneography can really count as a “month” if it doesn’t appear in spell check?
Cheers!
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They are very amazing creatures. Thank you for sharing your up-close moments.
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They really are, it was a nice moment for me to just be able to watch them. Thanks for commenting.
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Beautiful, very well captured… 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Good thing you didn’t startle them – these are valuable moments in nature. Thank you for sharing!
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Yes, they didn’t pay me any attention at all, which is really just the best 🙂
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Oh that’s something I’m always looking forward to, being outside, but what a lovely extra treat to see theese creatures 🙂
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Yes, exactly 🙂 Thanks for your visit.
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That’s about as close, or even closer than, I’d care to be to an elk!
Your phone camera did bravely under the circs —
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Thanks so much.
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What great pictures! You make me want to go to Missouri to see elk.
I didn’t use the phone on my camera for any of my pictures this month as it happens. To be a sport, I borrowed my sister’s iPhone for the first challenge, but the pictures weren’t so good, so I didn’t post them. Sometimes the camera on the phone really isn’t enough.
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I agree with your comments about the camera phone. Also to be honest I bought my phone for its phone features. Really I don’t use it as a camera much. Thanks for visiting 🙂
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Wonderful to be outside and see these magnificent animals 🙂
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Yes, after a busy week it was nice to take a few minutes to be outside.
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That is an exciting adventure. I have not seen one in the wild. I saw deers which I thought was already cool.
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I’m sure they were 🙂 this morning I saw only elk.
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I agree, the camera phone just isn’t enough! But a day with an elk sighting is better than a day without…;)
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You are right, even if I hadn’t had any camera at all (horrors) and elk sighting is still a cool thing 🙂
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You are making time visible, I love it, all the time!
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🙂 Thank you!
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Great shots. Believe it or not. This is another place in St. Louis that I have never visited. I guess I need to get out and about more.
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Yes, you should go 🙂 It is right next to the World Bird Sanctuary, and if you have never been there you should because it is amazing, just remember to take your camera 🙂
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It’s on my list now.
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I think you and I might have a similar problem, “ever expanding list syndrome”
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