Red Top Mountain...

Hi everyone! Today I am sharing some pictures from this weekend's trip to Red Top Mountain. It is GORGEOUS up there! It's the closest thing we have to a beach around here. We were there for the annual picnic of the Georgia Caged Bird Society. So obviously I had to take a few birdie pictures! LOL! There were lots of parrots around including Macaws, African Greys, Conures, Cockatoos and an Eclectus. We left our birds at home as they are all fully flighted and we did not want to take the chance of losing them.

These first couple of pictures are of a Hyacinth Macaw. He is 4 years old and his name escapes me. These birds are very rare and as such extremely expensive! Their cost range in price from $8,000 to $12,000. He was such a sweetie.

I believe that is Henry, the Blue & Gold Macaw, up front in the picture below.

A beautiful Cockatoo. These large birds are great but the screams are deafening!

And here is an African Grey.


We also wanted to take in some of the scenery. So we left the picnic and went down to the lake. I slapped on a wide angle conversion lens for the picture below.

These are of my husband enjoying the view and realizing that being outside in the fresh air is so much better sometimes that being stuck indoors all weekend. Even though I was trying to capture the moment, I was still paying attention to composition and creating a picture that was visually appealing.



It was also fun to photograph all the activity on the lake. Most of this was going on in the distance so I used a telephoto lens to bring me closer to the action and a monopod to minimize camera shake.

Scenes like the ones below just appeal to me for some reason.

Here, I decided to look up at the sky and the vision was beautiful! At least it was to me. Hope you like it too! LOL!

Well that's it for today. I'll be back next time with another photo adventure. Until then, keep on snappin'!