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Status: Top of the food chain with no known enemies
Mood: Smurfy
Mission: test new camera on snakes and to give my cat a break today.
Reason: Original plan got canceled
Weather: Sunny 81 degrees with a slight southeasterly breeze
Hike Time: 1214 to 1444 (military time used in honor of our veterans)
Sightings: lots of morning doves, one baby dback, one large coachwhip, one side-blotched lizard, and 2 zebratails.
Song: Things I Wonder by Taylor Swift (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQK6zMJOoQ)
Things I Really Do Wonder: (1) Why do British people lose their accents when they sing? (2) Why do we honor Columbus Day when he didn't even land on the United States? (3) Why do men have nipples?
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So, I get a new camera because some people over the years have been asking me to photograph them, or their weddings, children, et al, because they see my wildlife photos online. What some people don't know is that just because I'm okay at photographing animals and stuff, doesn't mean that I'm good at photographing people. In fact, I know very little about photography and still cannot figure out what aperture is. Nonetheless, I am going to start learning about photography and start taking others up on their offers, if I have time for it, which leads me to the next paragraph.
Today, I was supposed to meet my friend and photograph her son for his 3rd birthday, but she canceled on me, so I decided to take advantage of the comfortable weather and practice my photography on some desert critters. I did well with the baby dback that I found early in the hike and even messed with the manual settings, but botched a lot of easy bird and lizard shots.
I then came across a large coachwhip, sunning itself. Like a gentleman, I was going to photograph as is until it decided to take off on me, so I was forced to grab it. Unfortunately, I did not know that I had the camera set on manual, so most of my photos were terrible. The coachwhip was not happy to be caught, but did not bite me, but not without trying. And then I accidentally deleted most of the coachwhip photos. ](https://hikearizona.com/dex2/images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall")
Oh well, live and learn. I had fun anyway. I'm likin' this unseasonal warm weather we're having, and East Mesa is crawling with snakes, which is great for rodent control and the residents of the community.  Few folks were on the trail, which is good because I don't like putting on a show for people when I do my thing. |
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