Yellow Daffodils – Blue Sky

Yellow Daffodils – Blue Sky
Trumpet Daffodil ‘King Alfred’
Skywatch Friday

Since the King Alfred Daffs were blooming and the sky was a really nice shade of blue combining them for a Skywatch was easy. I am actually holding this flower up to the sky since lying on the wet ground wasn’t an option. These were shot with my ‘old’ camera, the Nikon D70s. Since it has been repaired it seems to working just great. The warranty is 6 months so I figured that testing it now instead of later was smart.

It is a lot like spending some time with an old friend. Compared to the D700 it is a simple and straightforward camera and that is its beauty. I had to remember why I had upgraded to the D700 and it was for more megapixels. People keep asking me for really large prints and that is tough with the D70’s 6.1 MP files. Of course the low light performance and the super clear viewfinder helped the decision to get the D700, too.


The season is really heating up and business is good. It has already exceeded my expectations.

“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.”

William Wordsworth

Happy Skywatching.
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