Irish

This morning the plans were to kayak Itchetucknee. The sun and overcast kept me from going. Then, fog set in. I could not pass that up. I quickly loaded up the Pelican with Logan and we put in at Alligator Lake. There was no real plan in mind, just a quick trip. We went to the far side of the lake and into the cypress hammock. There I tried to get the kayak to stay in one position long enough to get a shot. Composition is quite difficult from a kayak.
The contrast under the canopy was a bit too extreme and so there was difficulty achieving proper exposure. Expose in the shadow, highlights blown. Expose in the highlights, shadows blocked up. I took the 35mm 1.8 prime lens finally and set the color to monochrome. I set the exposure to manual with a wide aperture and an ISO of 400. It was a morning of experimenting. Not much was pleasing in that I thought, now that one sang.
All kind of just whistled or hummed along.
I would have finished up sooner but I lingered until the redneck drinking beer at the dock with his girl left. There is nothing more aggravating that some redneck making stupid comments while you try and unload.
Logan wanted to kick butt too.
By the way, last night we watched the Tom Hanks movie where his cargo ship was hijacked by Somalis.
What was it, Captain Phillips? The Somali called him Irish. Hanks did a bad Irish accent. Wimp movie too. Why did the crew not have guns aboard? Stupid.

This photograph was taken as we were leaving the lake. I also had parked in the handicap spot,with valid sticker of course, for when mamma rides with me, but never the less, I felt also the red neck would surely say something about that. I was prepared to say, I got a wooden leg bub... So I waited. The parking lot was full of boat trailers and trucks. I have never seen it this full before. The almanac must have said today was the day to fish.

I have noticed, as I predicted, that the Logan, Wolverine series I am doing is getting little to no interest.
I have likewise noticed in the past weeks a drop off in the amount of people liking and commenting. It never was anything to get excited about, it is less so now. I continue to attribute it to an over saturation of material from me, what with the several sites I maintain. Two, the material, if it is not awesome and beyond beautiful it garners little interest. And by the same token, it isn't shared. Sharing is the hallmark of a good photograph it seems. The high level of talent out there just causes folks level of interest to be way beyond just ordinary posts. I must learn to only post when something is really worth posting, not posting morning,afternoon and evening even if it is not worth the trouble.
What are your thoughts. Ha. I threw that in because...you guessed...no one bothers with my rambling on...