Paddling Pleasant Lake | a 7 Image Story Paddling along Pleasant Lake’s shoreline will generally yield at least a few decent images. On this day, the boat traffic was a bit heavier than usual, which made numerous waves. Capturing macro images of the water lilies was very difficult due to the extremely short depth of field. Still, the water is generally clear enough to see the water lily stems in the sandy lake bottom.
Beaver’s Handiwork Paddling the Kayak on glassy flat water provides a nice platform to capture both macro water flower images as well as wildlife images. It’s all about paddling slowly and gliding with camera in hand.
Great Blue Heron Paddling slowly toward shore makes it a bit easier to capture nice wildlife images without disturbing the wildlife. This Great Blue Heron still walked behind the bushes, but it did not fly away.
Male Eastern Kingbird The male Kingbird is usually several feet above of the nest; standing guard. This year, the Kingbird’s usual nesting place appears to have been destroyed. The female and nest were not in sight. Still, it must be very close. If you get too close to the nest, the males will start screeching and dive bombing you.
New Driftwood Paddling into calm water with late afternoon light allows creation of a serene photograph depicting the essence of nature on a small northern Michigan lake.
Insect on Lily Pad Flower This macro image was captured using a 10mm extension. The water lily was moving up and down due to waves on the lake. My kayak was moving in reaction to the waves. My arm was moving since it was outstretched to manually focus the camera very close to the lily. With such a narrow depth of field, it’s amazing that anything was in focus.
Feather in the Grass A lone feather blowing in the wind adores the lakeside grass. No telling where it’s from or where it’s going!
Red Lake Door A holiday on Pleasant Lake would not be complete without the red door. This year the red door seems to be pointing us skyward.
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