DRAGONFLY

A shot that almost didn't happen, and would not have but for the alert vision of Mrs. C. We had walked around the corner of the reflecting pool in yesterday's photo and sat on a bench. Dragonflies buzzed all over the water and she noticed one standing still on the low concrete wall. I had the same wide angle lens on my camera, hardly ideal for a close up, and leaned in as far as I could. What you see here is a tiny, tiny fraction of the original image. Cleaned up with de-noise software for sure, but it says something about the image quality of my camera, a Fujifilm X-T3, and lens, a FF 10-24 mm f4.          

EVENING IN THE GARDEN

One of our local treasures is the Missouri Botanical Garden, known locally as Shaw's Garden after its 19th Century founder, Henry Shaw. This is the central reflecting pool, much longer than it looks here through a wide angle lens. Yes, that's Chihuly glass. The garden had one of its nighttime light shows among the plants and buildings, more of which to come.            

               

GOT TO WRAP THIS UP

Have to finish the Act Your Pants Off Stuff and move on to other things. My calculation in yesterday's post was incorrect: the main Fringe festival starts in 10 days. I am particularly interested to see the show by the three women in the middle picture called "When Women Were Birds." Acrobatic/aerialist stuff. You can see the Fringe performance schedule and buy tickets at http://bit.ly/2pfYgnr .      

AYPO PORTRAITS

So much material still to go through from the Act Your Pants Off show, so little time. Once again, no record of names but I've seen two of the four performers before. Joe-something. Hanrahan? A fixture of the local theater scene. Don't know her but I like her sign. Don't know the next woman, either, but she had a hilarious shtick, playing a middle aged Jewish widow who carries her late husband's ashes around in a coffee percolator. And, um, hunky guy seen in other AYPO shows.

And the main Fringe season starts in two and a half weeks.           

CITY DAILY PHOTO AUGUST THEME DAY - BLACK

Trying to think outside of the box today. From an old photo taken at STL's Annie Malone parade.