Blue Tailed Skink

I am not sure what this guy is really called but I do know that he or she is a Skink. I call it a blue tailed skink for obvious reasons but I don't remember what it actually is. If anyone knows please let me know. I found this guy at the same castle where I saw the dragonfly. Unfortunately he is not eating any bugs or anything exciting, I hope you are not too disappointed Earl. Lunch hour must have been over or maybe the dragonfly was diner and I scarred it away, oops!

Sorry Todd, still no pictures of the castle of the campground but maybe you will find your way there yourself. They use the castle for weddings maybe you should check it out. Matter of fact they were setting up for a wedding while we were there. Really cool location for a wedding the two teenage girls I was with both said that is where they want to get married. I guess it is very romantic. If you look at the dragonfly post there are links to the website for the state parks that show some pictures of the parks but they do not do the parks justice.

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Dragonfly

I took this photo of a dragonfly while we were on vacation at Myrtle Beach State Park in South Carolina. We were visiting Huntington Beach State Park which has its own castle. It isn't a castle like you are probably familiar with from Europe, it is a Moorish style castle named Atalaya. It was very interesting to visit and while walking through the courtyard I saw this dragonfly who decided to pose for me on this wooden bench. This is as close as he would allow me to get before he took off. I highly recommend Myrtle Beach State Park for those of you who like camping.

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Panoramic 6

O.K. here is my latest installment in my Panoramic series. It is not the best one that I have done but I really like it. This image once I stitched it together measures just over 11" high by just over 85" long. I would love to print this image to see it but it would be over 7 feet long so I probably won't print it. I was in a very big hurry when I shot this and I didn't have a tripod so I had to hand hold the camera for 9 exposures. Since I was in a hurry I neglected to hold the camera in a vertical position. This would have allowed the image to be taller but it would then have added probably at least another 6 exposures to get this view. Anyway if you look at this image at full resolution you can see a couple of places that the stitching is not perfect, but I only spent about 30 minutes on this image and I will probably not spend any more time as I don't intend to print it. I did want to share it with my blog viewers, I hope you like it. Oh yeah, this is the Cumberland Gap and you are actually looking at 3 different states in this image. Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Most of what you are seeing is Tennessee to the left of the image is Virginia and to the right is Kentucky. I was standing in Virginia when I shot this image. As we walked back to the car we came across the Virginia/Kentucky state line. My girls were excited to be able to stand in 2 states at the same time.



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I shot this image while we were camping at Caesars Creek State Park, I was practicing shooting from different perspectives. This is one of my favorite shots. I really like the rocks in the foreground the angle of the dock in the image and the vast space of the blue sky.



Happy Independence Day,



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