Macaws are so colorful and beautiful. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

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Thanks, Dawn. I’ve got a collection of butterfly photos from there as well. I could have just as truthfully written your sentence about them for me, as well. 🙂

Thanks, Hammad! The dragonfly is one of my favorite shots. I was lucky it sat long enough for me to get the shot. An advantage of the telephoto in this case is that I was able to really keep my distance so that I wouldn’t “chase” it away while trying to focus and compose. 🙂

Thanks, Terri. For a quick edit, it turned out pretty well. I need to go in and finish cleaning the edges of the statue in a few places.

Thanks! I will pass along your greeting, Donna. Truth be told, that Portrait Bokeh tool in Neo worked better than I thought it would. I do need to go back in and really clean up the edges of the statue that show how “quick and dirty” my edit really was.

This challenge theme is enticing me to purchase a macro, and I’ve also been thinking about the so-called “nifty-fifty”, 50mm lens.
I might have to flip a coin… or buy both of them. 🙂

Thanks, Amy. That selfie made a great holiday card a couple of years ago, the version before I was able to create the “fake” bokeh in the background.