NFL Playoffs – Championship Round

NFL Playoffs – Championship Round

Sunday 24th January 2021

This is going to be a short blog post because it’s already 10.30pm and I’m only just staring to write! This morning we finished up the fourth and final coat of varnish on the “eye-brow” rail. All that remains is to peel off the masking tape, which can sometimes be easier said than done. It hasn’t been on for long so hopefully will come off pretty easily tomorrow. We had a monster breakfast of blueberry pancakes so we skipped lunch and went ashore for another walk around Crane Point preserve. It was another beautiful day and fun to walk around. We even saw two new bird species for this trip … an oven-bird, which is a small warbler that mostly hangs around on the ground, and a white crowned pigeon which in the USA is only found in southern Florida. We have seen one before, but only in the Bahamas. 

Then this evening we turned our attention to the NFL Championship games. With NFL Game Pass we can only watch after the event so around 7pm we started to watch the Tampa Bay – Green Bay game. We had decided to support Tampa Bay and were happy to see Tom Brady and team win and go forward to another super bowl. He did appear to play well despite throwing three interceptions that made the game much closer than it should have been. Yesterday when chatting to Tasha she confessed that she had only found out this week that Tom Brady had left the Patriots. I was deeply shocked! Is she really my daughter? … She doesn’t look like the milk-man! Tomorrow morning we’ll watch the second game between Buffalo and Kansas City.

Mike

24 42.220 N, 81 06.131 W

Just a quick comment on photos … below are some additional hibiscus shots. I realize that I’ve taken plenty of these in the past and I apologize if it’s getting repetitive. The reason that I continue to take them (apart from the fact that I like these flowers) is that I am trying to build up a set that could be submitted to a competition in the future and I keep trying to take better or complementary shots. The same argument goes for bridges, abstract waves, rusty boat etc and also sunsets that I just can’t resist even though it’s the most over-photographed subject of all. Sorry if it gets boring.

Hibiscus - shot straight on with 40 frames focus - stacked (105mm micro lens, F6.3, 1/200s)

Hibiscus - offset with 50 frames focus stacked (105mm micro lens, F8.0, 1/100s)

Hibiscus - as above but selecting front 20 out of 50 frames to leave the background out of focus

A beautiful spider at Cranes Point preserve

Bill - a rare (for this trip) portrait. Bill is a former army sniper who served in Dessert Storm and now lives on a boat here in Boot Key Harbor. I got chatting with him at the marina vegetable garden when I was taking photos yesterday