Rog
My blogs
| Location | Minnesota, United States |
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| Introduction | How many of us take the birds we see everyday for granted? I did, until last year. My wife made a suggestion that we get a bird feeder and hang it on the deck. Having an interest in photography for many years, I thought I'd pick up the camera and give bird photography a try. Once I viewed the pictures of the birds on my computer I was astonished by the incredible detail in the coloring and layering of the feathers on these birds. But I won't stop there. For me, I have just as much fun watching the behavior of the birds. I promise, if you sit and just watch their behavior, you'll laugh. They can be comedians and acrobats. If you haven't spent any time with the birds in your backyard, I urge you to give it a try. I don't think you'll be disappointed. They are indeed small miracles of our Creator. I for one will not take any bird for granted any more. I hope that perhaps looking at these pictures will inspire you to have a greater appreciation for what you see and probably take for granted. My very best.....Rog |
| Interests | American Civil War,World War II,Photography, Philately (stamp collecting-early Germany-plate flaws),Birding,Hiking (anywhere really but especially the Canadian Rockies),Visiting Civil War Battlefields,Browsing through antique stores,Baking bread,Eating bread!,Art of all kinds,The railroad,Photography of grain elevators across the prairies of Canada,Photography of the Canadian Rockies,Sunrises and sunsets........give me a minute I'll think of some more. |
| Favorite movies | Film Noir Genre,Panic in the Streets,Mystery Street,Side Street,Out of the Past,They Lived by Night,House on 92nd Street,Niagra,Experiment in Terror,Films of the 1940's and 1950's. Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist. Scrooge (Albert Finney-musical version of Dickens A Christmas Carol,Laurel and Hardy,Our Gang (early 1930's) |
| Favorite music | Classical Piano Concertos. Beethoven,Mozart,Debussy,Field,Hummel,Liszt,Satie,Dvorak,Vaughn Williams,Jazz,Oscar Peterson,Theolnius Monk,Modern Jazz Quartet |
| Favorite books | The Bible,Any book on the Civil War,Historical works. I don't care for fiction. I'll take my fiction via a good 1950's Film Noir |