Simon

Look out for wet floors! Or streets. Or sidewalks. Or grassy knolls.

I don’t know what this is, but it was poking along minding its own business on a tree outside our house. I hoped he wouldn’t mind posing for a quick snapshot, a request which he kindly obliged.

Another photo opportunity that popped up while I was out walking in our neighborhood with my son. This was outside a house that is for sale, and has been for quite some time.  The framing of this sign was a bit tricky because I had to step around some inconveniently-placed bushes, and also keep an eye on my son who was playing behind me. One of the neat things about being constrained to a 50mm lens is that it forces me to find different vantage points from which to shoot, and I don’t think I would have ended up with quite this same perspective if I were using a zooming lens.

I spotted this address label while going on a walk with my son, and while it’s certainly nothing special I did like the rich red color, accented by what was probably a green address label that had been painted over.

 

It’s sort of a ritual on the Oklahoma State University campus that anyone with a camera will inevitably take a picture of this architectural anchor (which, I am told, is modeled after a structure on the campus of the College of William and Mary, though that could be an urban myth).  Getting this shot with my 50mm lens required me to stand way, way back and I had to wait until all the foot traffic had passed.