So I know this is super late because Nature fest was in early May but I have been really busy.  I got asked about a month before Nature Fest if I would setup a booth for my photography.  I of course said yes, but after to agreeing to have a booth I faced a problem.  I only had about a dozen quality images that I wanted to show.

So  there was only one thing to do, shoot more images!  So I made about 5 or 6 trips out to the lakes about two weeks before the event. (If you are wondering what Nature Fest is, it is a annual event held at Hardee Lakes park to introduce nature and the park to the local citizens)  All the images bellow were shot only a few days apart from each other.  I love the alligator shot!

A few weeks ago I took Friday off and headed to the lake.  While most of my weekend was spent napping and doing as little as possible I did pick up the camera a few times.  I finally got to try my extender attached to my 300mm lens, all the shots below were shot with that setup.

Not really but that would have been cool   This interesting inscect was positioned on my brother car anttena.  I was about 3-4 inches away with my 100mm macro lens.

It has been a little crazy lately around here and yesterday afternoon I decided to go out and shoot some pics with my new 300 2.8 lens.  So I drove over to the Hardee Lakes park in Ft. Green.  If you have never been, you need to take the time to make it that way especially if you fish!  The Bird was about 100 yards from the bank and the sun was just getting read to set.  I almost missed the deer and I slammed on my brakes and got two shots before she lept away.

I went to Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay yesterday.  I almost didn’t take my camera but I decided to put some faith in the lockers there!  I ended up with about 50 good shots out of 460 these were the best of the best.  Surprisingly two of my faves were of a squirrel and a Cardinal.  The squirrels are very tame there, the shot below was taken at about 4 feet and there was another person about a 1 1/2 feet away from it trying to feed him. My favorite shot of the day is the flamingo directly below which had it’s head buried in it’s back and I zoomed in real tight!