🦢❤️"Like a Charm”🦢❤️

🦢❤️"Like a Charm”🦢❤️

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

I love it when I can envision a shot. It doesn’t come easy, but I’m thrilled when the outcome is even better than expected.

Yesterday, I was photographing with friends when I noticed two swans near a red reflection from a barn in the pond. 

     

     “I want to photograph them in that,” I said as I pointed to the reflection. 

We took turns leading the swans to the reflection with food. When my friends walked away, I wanted to try one more time. I ran up the path and they followed, and then ran fast back to where I wanted to take the photo. It worked like a charm.

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🦉💚 “Peace”🦉💚

🦉💚 “Peace”🦉💚

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

 

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid” (John 14:27, NIV).

 

Have a blessed Labor Day weekend! 

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Location: Maryville, Tennessee

Lining Up

❤️🦢 "Lining Up” ❤️🦢

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

* A mute swan glides through colorful reflections. *

I love photographing the wildlife at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. My favorites subjects there are the mute swans and bald eagles. Through the years, many more swans have been purchased, making it easier to find one to photograph.

I envisioned the shot I wanted to take when I saw this swan nearing a colorful reflection, which made the shot more interesting. His white reflection is beginning to line up with the other.

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Location: Lake Junaluska, North Carolina.

Looking Forward to 2022 – Meandering

“Looking Forward to 2022” – “Meandering”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

Backstory to photo:

My family was on St. Simons Island for Thanksgiving. We spent a long weekend there. I looked forward to photographing the shorebirds.

St. Simons has a plethora of shorebirds. Since I was raised there and have shot a lot on the island, I know which part of the beach will typically yield the most birds.

 I got out early one morning, and the following morning, I was out at dawn. I am not a morning girl. Never have, never will, so it is hard for me to get out by sunrise to shoot.

This particular morning, I saw a great egret and a snowy egret looking for breakfast in the distance. I took my shoes off, crossed the water, and sat on a rock, watching them as they meandered. 

I like the landscape view with the egret walking around.

“Looking Forward to 2022”

As well as reflecting on a year, I also like to look forward to the new year. Although, I know it says in the scriptures, “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring” (Proverbs 27:1, NIV).

My husband and I are on the clasp of building a new house. It will be our forever home which will sit on the top of a hill overlooking a lake. We will get to see the sunset from our front porch. Talk about something to look forward to!

I’ve also been writing a book for almost two decades. Sometimes, I will diligently work on it, and other times I will lay it down for long periods. 

It is a book the Lord laid on my heart to write about my Mom’s death from ALS. The book continues to cover other deaths I have gone through. I took a massive leap of faith and hired an editor.

I look forward to what the Lord has for my book. 

I continue to see the Lord using me where He has me planted. It is exciting to see Him work and use this weak vessel to grow His kingdom.  

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If you missed my "Looking Back" post, click here.

Location: St. Simons Island, Georgia

My Hangry Face!

“My Hangry Face!”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

In February, I had the privilege to photograph my first Eastern screech-owl (Adult red morph).

He was a cute little fellow nestled in a tree. He didn’t appear to be hangry, but I like the face he gave me. I’ll pretend he was super hungry therefore, hangry.

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Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

Divine Providence

“Divine Providence”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

If you have been following my work for some time, you know I have mentioned many times about the Lord’s intervention in my photography. He blesses my photography so much—even times when I least expect it. I pray and ask the Lord to show me or bring to me what He wants me to photograph. 

My apartment overlooks a cove right next to the water’s edge. On this particular day, I was walking my dog in my apartment complex. For some reason, I looked up. There before me was an immature bald eagle in a dead tree. 

Hurriedly, I picked up the dog; ran to my apartment and got my camera. I asked the Lord to please have him stay there until I got back.

I love when He answers even my simple prayers.

           

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Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

One Sip

“One Sip”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

Being a hummingbird is hard work! They have to consume about half their body weight in in nectar and bugs a day. That equals feeding on 1,000 to 2,000 flowers daily to get the nectar they need. Unless of course, they are lucky enough to find a hummingbird feeder and can gulp away.

                              

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Location: Chamizal National Memorial Park in El Paso, Texas 

“One of Them”

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One of my favorite things to do is photograph the swans at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. They are so beautiful!

There is a particular place where I can usually find them. This day did not disappoint.

I usually start a distance away and slowly creep forward throughout the time I am there. They are comfortable with my presence and allow me to be in their world as though I am one of them.

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Location: Lake Junaluska, North Carolina

Evil Eye

“Evil Eye”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

 

This past winter, a friend took me to photograph a canvasback. I was excited because I have never photographed one. Also, canvasbacks in Tennessee during the winter are uncommon.

 

 I kinda felt sorry for him, because he was the only one of his kind living at the pond. The only other birds were mallards. He blended in but stuck out like a sore thumb.

 

Canvasbacks are wary and he proved no different. When I walked around the lake to him, he swam away.

 

In this photo, it looks like he is giving me the evil eye for following him.

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Location: Maryville, Tennesse

Home In

"Home In”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

I went to the Fort Loudoun Dam to photograph the ospreys as they fished for their next meal.

I saw a bunch of tree swallows darting across the water. They would home in on their target like a missile. I thought maybe they were snatching up minnows.

 As I was editing my photos, what they were doing became clear. Tiny insects lurked above the water and became prime targets for the swallows.

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Location: Lenoir City, Tennessee

Matilda

“Matilda”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

A female mallard duck takes advantage of the quiet playgrounds amid the coronavirus and lays eggs.

Meet Matilda, a female mallard—my new friend. Since the playgrounds are closed because of the coronavirus, they have become a quiet place of peace and solitude. This serenity attracted Matilda to lay a clutch of about 18 eggs underneath the green stairs next to a red slide.

I asked a worker if he had seen any wildlife. He answered, “There are mainly squirrels and ducks.” He then told me about a duck laying on eggs and directed me to her new home.

I gave her duck food to comfort her and waited till the light was void of the harsh shadows to photograph her.

The last time I visited, she was off the nest preening near her mate. This opportunity let me see her eggs from a distance. I can’t wait to meet all her ducklings!!

She is definitely practicing social distancing and has her house decorated early for Christmas!

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Lenoir City, Tennessee

His Eye

“His Eye”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

Today, I started singing the hymn His Eye is on the Sparrow. I asked the Lord to lay songs on my heart, to give me a word from Him, or to give me dreams.

Life has been difficult for me the last few weeks. Life can toss you too and fro but keeping my eye on the Lord has kept me centered. The Lord did not promise we would not see trials and tribulations, in fact, the Bible has many verses about it.

The Coronavirus has people up in arms. But, let me share with you a word from the Lord I received almost ten years ago. “When there is not enough…..there is……I AM!”

I wasn’t going through hard times when I received His word. It has ministered to me greatly in hard times.

Jesus said, “Look at the birds of the air; they do not reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” Matthew 6:26

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Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee

The Jesus Effect

“The Jesus Effect”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect—because one thing happens, something else happens?

In my photography, I would rather call it the Jesus effect. I ask the Lord to show me or bring to me what He wants me to photograph. So, the Lord may bring me something to photograph, which may lead to me photographing something even better.

This particular day at Radnor State Park, I enjoyed finding critters to photograph with another photographer. We found an owl earlier, and then I saw the cutest chipmunk taking nesting materials to his hole.

While I was photographing the chipmunk, a lady walked by, and I showed it to her. She said, “There is an owl around the corner.” After getting a better description of where he was, we ran like crazy in hopes we would find it.

He was right where she said. We were delighted to say the least. We photographed the owl a while, then he flew across the road and posed in a tree.

My friend was hoping he would fly down and grab a vole. After he left, the owl did try twice to catch something but failed both times. This was the parting shot he let me take.

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Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Up, Up, and Away

“Up, Up, and Away”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

Two other photographers and I went in search of sandhill cranes. I first photographed cranes in Texas, but they were a million miles in the air.

My friend has permission to photograph on a lady’s private property. When we arrived, the cranes were in her fields grazing. Unexpectedly, they took to flight not giving me time to adjust my shutter speed. I shot away hoping for a good photograph.

I’m tickled to get a decent shot!

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Location: Louisville, Tennessee