Red-tailed hawk

A young red-tailed hawk perched on the top of the perennial garden gazebo in Elizabeth Park.

I wanted to see it fly away but there was thunder and lightning on the horizon,

so I had to leave that for another day.

Dave

Dave's career was in IT at a couple of insurance companies, including MassMutual.

For a while he volunteered at Elizabeth Park.  Now he is a part-time employee.

This week he was tying down the canes on the rose garden arches.

An advantage of shooting with a zoom lens is that I can come in close visually

while maintaining a distance safe for my subjects and myself.

Monique

I ran into Monique as she bicycled through Elizabeth Park.

We caught up about her three daughters and the affairs of the world.

Monique worked with me at my first company and I hired her for my second company.

Today she is a compliance officer for an investment firm in Stamford.

Bruce

Bruce was sitting alone on a bench in the shade on the far side of Elizabeth Park's pond,

smoking a little cigar and thinking deep thoughts.

Flappathon

Most of the time, the Canada geese at Elizabeth Park just float around quietly.

But, from time to time something sets them off and they vigorously flap up a storm.

Ana

Ana is a Brazilian photographer, now living in the United States.

She was photographing a mother, son and baby daughter.  I photographed them over her shoulder.

Then I took Ana's camera and photographed her with the group.  

Afterward, I photographed Ana alone.  Because of this nasty virus,

 it seems like forever since my last portraits.

A Decade

This blog began ten years ago with a photo similar to this one.  I started six days after retiring because I didn't want to stay home and vegetate.  From time to time the slog of posting daily photos gets to me.  I think about quitting, but I like taking photographs and need somewhere to show them..  And, friends still tell me that they like something I posted, so on it goes.

The blog was originally Hartford Daily Photo before I started spending winters in Florida and gave it the current ungainly name.  But, I photograph Elizabeth Park so often I sometimes think of it as Elizabeth Park Daily Photo.  What I didn't mention in that first 2010 post is that the red roses
in the foreground are in a plot that I subsidize, to memorialize my parents.