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"Early last year, I enjoyed watching this mother wren nesting in my decorative bird house and feeding her babies," wrote Amy Grosklags. "My son captured this frozen image of her."
"Early last year, I enjoyed watching this mother wren nesting in my decorative bird house and feeding her babies," wrote Amy Grosklags. "My son captured this frozen image of her."
Oct 28, 2020

Calling amateur photographers!

Have you taken a great picture that you’d like to share with the world? One with action, great lighting and/or interesting subjects? E-mail it to communitynews@ajc.com. Please no selfies, for-profit promotional pics, group shots or anything you wouldn’t want your grandma to see.

Dick Woodward of Paulding County took this photo several years ago at Daytona. "I call it 'Serenity' and think of the quote, 'Tranquility is a beach state of mind,'" he wrote. "Also, my fishing buddy and I always responded to questions about what we'd caught, 'Fishing is not about catching fish.'"
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Tom Warner of Milton shared this photo of his cat Simba reminding a deer whose yard it is, he wrote.
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Bruce Turry shared this Hilton Head oddity.
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