William Carlos Williams
Vast and gray, the sky
is a simulacrum
to all but him whose days
are vast and gray, and—
In the tall, dried grasses
a goat stirs
with nozzle searching the ground.
—my head is in the air
but who am I…?
And amazed my heart leaps
at the thought of love
vast and gray
yearning silently over me.
Cranes in a cotton field near Centre.
(c) 2015 Robert Harrison
I wanted to try an inexpensive mirror lens with a 2x extender for nature photography. It’s not bad, but not great either. The acuity is not as good as I’d like, and the depth of focus is paper thin. But when it works it’s pretty good.
These seagulls were hunting shad on the far side of the lake, about 700 meters away.
The flat field of focus can be really nice. I like this back-lit grass and weeds.
all photographs (c) 2015 Robert W. Harrison
It is a little early yet, but the Sandhill Cranes overwinter near us. They love hunting bugs, frogs and other such small deer in the cotton fields at the Georgia Alabama border near Centre. We’ve even seen, once, the Whooping cranes fly through.
This shows what a 200mm lens does. I’m just waiting to try with a bigger one.
R. Harrison, Creative Enterprises 