I was looking through the hundreds of photos I’ve taken so far this year, and found one that inspired me to resurrect the No-Touch Tuesday category, where I shoot photos with proper camera settings and don’t edit them later.
This week’s No-Touch Tuesday feature once again comes from my trip to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens. As I said in my last post, the Wings of the World exhibit was one of my favorite exhibits of the zoo. If I close my eyes, I can still remember walking through the open air aviary as if it were yesterday.
This week’s No-Touch Tuesday feature comes from the deck off the back of my house. I love having bird visitors come to eat from the various feeders. It gives me a chance to watch them closely through the glass door. But in the warmer months when I’m able to sit outside on the deck, they can be a little more skittish.
This week’s unfiltered, unedited No-Touch Tuesday feature choice was easy…I was fortunate to take a road trip recently with a stop at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. It was my first visit to the zoo, and it blew me away! With its official opening in 1875, it is the second oldest zoo in the United States.
For this week’s No-Touch Tuesday feature, I set out to purposely take a photo that I knew I could be happy with as it was. And then the clouds rolled-and then the rain came down-and then all the birds and butterflies went silent. In that overcast stillness, I could see light reflecting in the raindrops on the pine needles.
To complement my Fauxto Friday feature, (where I take a perfectly fine picture and edit it to death, transforming it into a “fauxto”) I’m adding a new feature…”No-Touch Tuesday.” The name says it all! Tuesday’s will now feature a photo that I have not retouched in any way, shape or form. Completely unfiltered.