Wood Duck Drake Looking at Me Canvas Print

I was sitting on some rocks near next to the shore. There were about 9 or so pairs of Wood Ducks surrounding me. Sterne Park has a small lake in Littleton, Colorado. The local residents feed the ducks and geese. As soon as I began walking towards the shoreline, many of the ducks and geese started flying across or swimming across the water towards me. As long as I was sitting, they would come up very close to me.

For more organized viewing please CLICK the GALLERIES LINK Above. I am a Colorado Native as were my parents and grandparents. My first camera was a Kodak Brownie. I still have albums filled with memories of my youth taken with my Kodak. In the mid 1970's, I got my first SLR 35mm Camera. I had an Olympus OM-1 and later on an OM-2. At one time I had a color lab in my basement. It was a fun hobby but very expensive and the results were questionable. In about 2000, I got a call from Kodak wanting to know if I liked photography and if I had a computer. I was chosen to be part of a digital camera focus group. This was my first foray into digital photography. Since then I have graduated from point and shoot cameras to DSLR's. My first DSLR...