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Title
Jack County Ranch Wildflowers
Description
We have a ranch in the northeast part of Jack County, Texas, that we call the Double Trouble. We have some cattle, but mainly it's a place to slip away from the city to do a little hunting, fishing, and relaxing.
In the spring of 2001 our friends in Jack County were talking about what a good year it was for wildflowers, so I took our old Canon AE-1 35mm camera out to do some photographing. Our nest is empty now, so I had the time and was ready for a new project. It turned out to be great fun, and I got some pretty good shots.
By the spring of 2002 I had a new Olympus C-700 digital camera to use. It has a zoom lens that is the equivalent of a 380 mm lens on a 35 mm camera, and I used its macro feature on most shots in automatic mode. With it I took at least three times as many pictures of each flower trying to get just the right one. Some blooms last only a day or two, so being able to review pictures on the TV at the ranch the same day I took them was a real benefit. I also found downloading on the computer at home to be much easier than having photos developed at the store! It was an easy process, and I got enough positive feed back to continue taking pictures.
