Wednesday Walk a Visit to Allens Pond

This post if for Wednesday walk challenge And Make me Smile Collaboration challenge, initially our collaboration was once a month but due to the popularity of it we have decided to make the collab a weekly thing :)

Any questions about the challenge read the guide at the Bottom of the post ;)

For todays walk I am sharing some images from a walk I took at the Allen's Pond Wildlife Sanctuary I took recently

I will share this first shot, so its the thumbnail and will talk about it later in the post

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A little bit about the sanctuary which is along the Border between Dartmouth and Westport MA

Spanning hundreds of acres of protected beach, fields, woodlands, pond, and marsh, Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary was created by generous families who opted to conserve their land. Extensive trail systems offer ocean and pond views from many vantage points and afford visitors a full day of walking and birding.

At the start of the walk after I parked the car, I came to this intersection, from having looked at the tail map online when planning to visit here, I knew I wanted to start by taking the trail to the right heading to the beach to catch the sunrise first

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And glad I did it was a lovely sunrise, and a nice beach, although quite rocky as since I got there before sunrise in the blue hour it was fairly dark and I had to be careful walking over the rocks initially till more light came up.
I spent a bit of time walking back and forth along the beach catching images of the sunrise, I have only edited this one so far, but will get to the others for a future post at some stage

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Walking in from the beach on one of the trail I got this view of the Pond it was so beautiful in the early morning light

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I then walked back to the beach, and made my way back to the car

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The reason I wanted to go back to the car, was I wanted to take my bigger lens with me for a walk though the other trails in the hope of catching some shots of birds, whether I did or not I will reveal tomorrow

Well I guess I gave it away I didn't get many but enough for a post tomorrow LOL

Walking along the trail I came to a curve in the frail and spotted this fawn which looked at me but stayed there long enough for me to get a couple of shots, then its Mum noticed me and off they dashed

The first image was at ISO 16000 and this one at ISO 10000, reminds me how happy I am with how this camera performs at high ISO levels and still get reasonable shots

Now I could have used different settings but i had it setup for catching images of birds if I saw one fly by and made a quick adjustment of the settings but not to much as I didn't want to miss the shot

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and to finish off this post a Rabbit I saw on the trail

It was a beautiful trail and I will revisit there and walk the trails with a wide lens at some stage

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Weekly giveaway of shares

This week I am sending to the following who joined Wednesday Walk, for this week I did a random draw and the following each received some Hive Hive account@olga.maslievich, Hive account@trangbaby, Hive account@soyunasantacruz, Hive account@thaismarags, Hive account@thaocherry, and capt.wildbill

As Hive account@elizacheng and I collaborated with our Wednesday Walk and Make me Smile Challenges

And one person is randomly drawn who joins both challenges to receive one Hive from me and this week it is @TBA

Wednesday Walk is a challenge started by me, the idea is to get out for a short walk and get some shots of what you can see within a short distance of your home office or wherever you start. And this is my entry for this week, but first, let me explain the challenge.

This is my post for the Wednesday Walk challenge hosted by myself, let me first explain the guidelines

Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of.

Your walk does not have to be on a Wednesday I just ask if possible to share your walk photos on a Wednesday.

Try and get a few shots not just one

Add a bit of a write up about where you walked

Just one Wednesday Walk tagged post a week

You can look for anything in general or decide on one subject you want to get shots off.

Make a point of looking around and up and see what you can find to get shots of that otherwise you may miss

Do a post with the shots you get on a Wednesday and tag it with #wednesdaywalk, also if you happen to join, please leave a link to your post in a comment on this post and I will try and visit them all, especially if its not one of the first 5 tags or I may miss seeing it .

Following me and re-Hiving the post so more see it would be appreciated but isn't a rule just a suggestion.

I am not strict on these rules and hence why they are called guidelines and not rules

I will try and visit, and upvote all who take part in the Wednesday Walk.

Make me Smile Collaboration

As I mentioned above Wednesday Walk is collaborating with the [Make Me Smile] hosted by Hive account@elizacheng,

Here are the rules for her challenge

Your post can be writing, singing, video, poem,drawing, photography etc.... the most important part is your post Make me" smile, Remember, the ME is whoever read/view/listen to your post and this includes YOURSELF.
b. Your content must be ORIGINAL CONTENT
c. Please include at least 50 Words in your post