Best Pictures: May 2017

Here are my favorite pictures I took in May 2017:

Flowers at Lake Conestee Nature Park. Fuji X-T2 w/16mm F1.4 lens.

Boardwalk at Lake Conestee Nature Park. Fuji X-T2 w/16mm F1.4 lens.

Atlanta city lights from my hotel room at Sage Summit. Fuji X-T2 w/16mm F1.4 lens.

Sunset from my deck. Fuji X-T2 w/XF 50-140mm lens.

Hosta leaf water drops. Holland, MI. Fuji X-T2 w/XF 16mm F1.4 lens.

Water drops. Holland, MI. Fuji X-T2 w/XF 16mm F1.4 lens.

Aly on the swing at Maplewood Park. Holland, MI. Fuji X-T2 w/XF 18-135mm lens.

Dune flowers at Saugatuck Dunes State Park. Fuji X-T2 w/XF 16mm lens.

Leah V-sitting at gymnastics. Holland, MI. Fuji X-T2 w/XF 50-140mm lens.

Milky Way and clouds over Newfound Gap at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Fuji X-T2 w/Rokinon 12mm lens.

Milky Way and clouds over Newfound Gap at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Fuji X-T2 w/Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens.

One note on this last picture: as you can see in the two pictures above, the sky was a mix of clouds and clear on this night. I left the top of Newfound Gap and headed down to this overlook with the idea of getting a fisheye view of this curve, with headlights or taillights and the starry night sky. Unfortunately, by the time I moved down to this spot, the sky had completely clouded over and it burned me that I missed the chance to make the photograph I had envisioned.

But I got it in August, so look for that post soon.