Our LIttle Park

Most of my park photos come from two parks. In the previous post in which I was taking-in the greening of the trees, we were at Riverside park, near downtown. However, we are in our neighborhood even more. It has the weird name of Anthony Curron park, but nobody seems to know who dear Anthony was. With that name, is it any wonder that I choose to refer to it as the neighbourhood park or just our little park? (Note: I did look it up once, but I soon forgot.)

Anyway, the day after the the Riverside shoot of the greening of the trees in the previous post, we ambled over to our little park. Once again, I used my portable stool to get down the dandelion level. 

You can skip this part; it involves photographic trivia. 😊

When you have objects both near and far in a photo, either the near or far object will be out of focus. The solution was to take two shots. One snap focused on the dandelions, the other on the far trees. I then let photoshop do its magic and combine them. I have done this before with a tripod to keep the two shots exactly the same, but when you shoot freehand there is some camera movement, so, I have never tried it sans tripod before. I did move the camera and, therefore, lost some pixels, but it worked alright, I guess.

There are houses that back onto the park. Some of them have pretty gardens on the park edge. It’s a delight to walk by and enjoy the results of others’ labour.

What a lovely clump of hybrid daffodils!

A bear has made its way into the park, possibly looking for picnic baskets.

There is a big boulder in the park, and one person has built a little garden around it.

After nosing around the park, we walked along the trail, but I'll put those photos in another post.