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I believe photography is not about the camera we use. It’s just a tool to open our inner eye. – Viswalal Wayanad in this post

Sunrise in the City
7:30 AM Dec. 22, 2019
See the sickle moon in the top of the middle tree.

Over the years I’ve had a series of cameras. They always either wear out or break because of the hard life I put them through when I take them with me on dog-walks. Currently, I have two cameras, a pocket-sized water-damaged Nikon CoolPix A300 and a friend’s hand-me-down Canon PowerShot SX520 HS. For photo-editing, I use Windows Live Photo Gallery. I’m not sure if that program comes with the computer (which I got in 2013) or with the Word Document program.

I started with a film camera (Fujifilm) in about 1998 and scanned some photos to digital. Before that, I was with a religious sect, horse and buggy Mennonite, that believed cameras were “of the world” and sinful. So that accounts for my photography saga. The photos posted here are all post-1998, when I was at least 40 years old; I learned by trial and error from the ground up and loved every second of the trip.

Naturally Urban Nature Photos is naturally mostly about nature. I include animals–domestic farm animals and housepets as well as wildlife–with nature. Likewise, sunsets and skies and clouds, plants, landscapes and water scenes of all kinds. Also gardening. The built environment of cars and houses might occasionally slip in as well as people but a look at the photos on my hard drive shows that the vast bulk of my pictures focus on flowers, trees, and sky. Except otherwise noted, all photography on this blog is my own work.

Tulips
June 2 2019

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