A Frog Orgy and Some Crocuses

This weekend we decamped to the Tatra Mountains in Southern Poland to visit one particular valley where crocuses come out for only a few days of the year.  Local media reported that around 75,000 other people had the same idea, which goes to show just how popular crocuses are in Poland.  But much more fun was the frog orgy we witnessed on the walk to the crocus valley.  Have you ever seen a frog orgy?  I hadn’t, and I was so shocked at the brazen behaviour I even covered Youngest Daughter’s eyes!

So which pictures would you like to see first: the pretty crocuses or the down-and-dirty frog orgy?  Yup, I thought so:
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And here are the pretty crocuses:
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Finally, here are a couple of compare-and-contrast water scenes.  To make the water appear static, a shutter speed of anything faster 1/80th will do; to make the water appear blurred, a shutter speed of 1/10th or lower will do, but 1/10th is about the slowest shutter speed it’s possible to use handheld before camera shake sets in.  If you want to shoot slower than that to make the water appear even more blurred, you’ll need a tripod and remote shutter release.  Finally, if you’re one of the 96 readers who read one of my books in March, thank you and do leave a review please, whether good, bad or ugly, because they all help.  Did you read that?  ALL REVIEWS HELP!!!