Perception. I love it.

On the way in to Dallas Saturday, got some coffee and circled around and down a back street - Forest Hills, one of the more tree-lined - that I often find visually pleasant. Camera in hand, I's surprised to find this much color, so I parked and hopped out.

This golden back-lighting is what brought me to a halt...

The two above, pretty much the same composition, just with two different treees, one a house down from the other.

Left, I was going for the bare limbs in the back yard. Yes, I need a better camera.

Then I turned around and the sky was on fire! Well, it ain't that bright, I admit, but so much more than I've come to expect around here, I pushed the saturation to more closely approximate the effect...

Then I made the lake. I was in full sun when I got this one (below) and couldn't see the view screen worth a flip, and I'm not really sure what caught my eye here, but I think it had to do with the clumps of grass bottom right and the shine off the water beyond.

Speakin' of shiny, ooooo...!

New modern construction, fits in well enough I guess, but is a far cry from the character of the old rickety wooden arch type bridge they replaced.

Will this cheap-ass camera pick up the translucency of the water? Guess so.

Eye of the beholder, I reckon. Plus, nature is nature, all over everything...

NAF was here...

Above, little ducky heads for the party. Below, the party in full swing. Unfortunately I have no zoom capability so you can't tell it here, but the little black dot in the middle of the fowl activity out there on the water is actually a large, magestic pelikan.

Next is the shot I used for a sketch posted yesterday, HERE.

End of the lake shots, this one seems to kinda sum up the trip somehow.

However! There are a few also-rans here at the end. I actually like this first one below, the way it composes the space, I think, and the light. Most unfortunately, my little camera seems to be not exactly squared up, and if I'm not careful all the uprights will be leaning. I swear it's the camera, not my cock-eyed eyeballs. Anyway, these power poles do lean in reality, bu not that much.

Lastly, I considered scrapping these two, 'cause in terms of what I was trying for, they're pretty far off.

Heading back toward home, fully engaged in traffic flow, these colors reached out from roadside and I was compelled to reach back. Grabbed the camera and just pointed it in that direction

Well, they did capture some of the color, so...

Since the windshield damage features so prominently in these, I call them Crack-Ups1 and 2. ;-)