Trying times

 

First off, apologies for not keeping up with the blog and posting photos. 

The economic situation continues to hit closer to home for me.  Been several months of worry and frustration.  Today, my primary job put me on an  “hourly” status.  I continue the mantra “at least I have a job” but it gets hard to even stay positive.

I’m in the process of waiting for an email that describes the change in my employment status.  Hard to do any productive work while I am waiting.  I took a cup of coffee out to the deck look at the weather as we have thunderstorms in the area.  I was out looking at the sky before I noticed  at my feet that there was a Mourning Dove sitting.

I’m not sure if he flew into the sliding glass door or what the situation was – but he didn’t fly away.  I figured I might as well grab the camera and see what kind of close up work I could get.

ISO 200, F/3.2, 1/1250 sec, 75mm – Nikon D300

I should have probably gone out with a longer lens and I probably should have shot more depth of field.  Instead I focused on the eyes… like I always do with models.  The flowers in the background are a tad distracting as well.  Guess that just sort of sums up my emotions right now.

I’m challenged as I’d like to stay where I am to allow the kids to graduate from high school here.  But, to take photography to the next step, I probably need a bigger market.  Same for my current “real job” as an HR consultant.

Sorry for the venting I’ve done in this post – but if anyone has any positive vibes to shoot this direction, I’d appreciate it.

Patrick