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RE: Backroads Drive: Good Thunder Area (Original Photography)
Wow, wow WOW! I went from wowED (LOVE the road through the lake) to OMG those are the giant white pelicans! (they are 2x's the size of regular pelicans in Florida. The white ones group gather whereas the regular pelicans are pretty much loners. Then, I had the giggles with the titles of your photos (priceless, especially eaten by the forest!), followed by my mouth gaping open with your Take II (STunnING!) I'm glad there were no flys buzzing around with my mouth gaping open like that! I finished your post with an ohhhhhhhh to the photo of your camera and gear!! I was just looking at cameras today. I'm going to upvote your tomorrow when my SP is better. Jeezzz such an emotional post. lol :)
Thanks! I was really surprised to see the pelicans here. When I lived in Watertown, South Dakota, there were a bunch of them in the aptly-naed Lake Pelican. When I first bought this camera, and had just the kit lens and a telephoto, I took it out there to practice on them! They do some weird things, too. Under the super moon, I saw them floating together like an island. As they got too close to the shore, the ones on that side would fly up and over to the other side, creating a sort of sideways white tornado.
It's sad to see the barns falling apart like this, but there are some well-kept ones out there, yet. I may take some photos of those, but the combination of structure and decay is more interesting from a photography perspective.
The red barn with the holes in the roof was kind of on its own on an otherwise vacant lot. I "may" have done a little trespassing, but I checked for ticks and bullet holes when I got home and seem to be ok! :-)