September was a fun and sometimes challenging month for
photos.
I began the month with a trip to the Missouri Botanical
Gardens for the Japanese Festival.
Then I had two weekends at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival
presenting programs for World Bird Sanctuary on the weekends. Mixed in with all of the festivals I
managed to do a little bird watching here and there.
The Missouri Botanical Gardens Japanese Festival is the largest festival of its kind in the United
States. I arrived about 9 am and
left about 6pm, so needless to say I had a good time. The weather was beautiful, so the photo opportunities were
everywhere, including flowers, people, objects, and dragonflies.
Choosing photos from the Japanese Festival was a real
challenge, but I finally narrowed it down to two. The first is of some very pretty little parasols they had
for sale. These were sitting out
on the lawn to advertise the designs they had available.
The second photo from this day was of an orange dragonfly hovering over a pink lotus flower. There were so
many dragonflies and lotus flowers that it was hard to choose.
The next photo is from the Kansas City Renaissance
Festival. The World Bird
Sanctuary presents programs on
weekends starting Labor Day week, and this year running through Columbus Day
weekend.
Since we have limited time to do our presentations we
usually have three people presenting these programs to make them move along. That being the case, I would often use
the backstage time while waiting to go on to attempt to take a photo or two
through the crack in the divider between the audience and the backstage area.
Intern Jess
Hill and MacGyver the Harris' Hawk
Photographing a bird in full flight through a small crack
can be very challenging. I did
however manage to get this photo of one of our interns Jess Hill releasing
MacGyver, the Harris Hawk, for his flight up to the stage. I love the intent stare in his
eyes as he focuses on the speaker’s glove. I also love how the one wing almost looks like you can see
through it due to the movement of the wing.
The one thing I have learned with this project is that there
are amazing photo opportunities all around you and you never know when they are
going to appear.
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