Hello, kittens & dawgs! It’s hump day already. As the old saying goes, it’s all down here the rest of the way. I’m ready to slide right into Friday, aren’t you?

In Bad things come in threes, I shared a night shot I took at one of the local parks. I thought I’d share a couple of images captured at the same park taken during the day.

Photography is an interesting in the way the camera’s eye perceives light depending on the conditions cloudy or bright skies to your lens focal length, aperture and shutter settings.

In order by time, I will show you what I mean.

DSC_4206 copy — focal length: 25mm, f-stop: 5, exposure: 1/640 Photo capture of birds landing on trees. What I didn’t realize was I caught three birds. Do you see them? ~Campbell Station Park in Farragut, TN

Clearly, the sky is overcast in the above picture, but the angle and light is drastically different from this next photo.

focal length: 75 f-stop: 5.3 exposure: 1/640 Sneak shot of little girl statue image framed by the tree in the foreground. ~Campbell Station Park in Farragut, TN

The below picture, I took about an hour later while the edge of the night moved across the sky. Oddly, my first shot in the series of the footbridge image appeared lighter than the first picture I shared above. Again, it has to do with the angle of the light hitting the camera sensor and my settings. I opted to not share that one, but instead a different one I liked better.

The light wasn’t quite dim enough in the late afternoon to suit my taste. It lacked the drama needed to capture the lights strung on the footbridge, but stopping the exposure down enabled the camera sensor to pick up the bluish glow from the LED bulbs.

Quiet walk across footbridge leads to a loop hilly path through the park. The trail was longer than I expected, but a good place to walk on a nice day. Despite the clouds, the temperature was mild for late December.

I’m not technically oriented in the photography world by any means. I find it all a learn-as-you-go process, which I happily accept. I am not a world-class photographer and never will be. I’m a recreational shutterbug who aspires with each shot taken is a little better than the one before. All that matter is I’m having fun doing something I like. Can you say the same?

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