I did not actually see this frog through the electronic viewfinder of my Canon SX50HS. I was just framing the luminous water lilies with the long end of the zoom, for effect. When I edited the image in Lightroom, the frog was there, making his frog face, big as life.

Some critters are just had to impress. I mean, there he is, surrounded by exceptional beauty…I love the way the light is cupped in the pink lilies and the patterns the pads make in the water…and Mr. Frog still has his business-as-usual frog-face on.

Canon SX50HS with the usual modifications to Program. 1800mm equivalent field of view. f6.5 @ 1/1000th @ ISO 250. Processed in Lightroom.

And for the Sunday Thought: We are already half way there. Some critters, and people, are hard to impress. There were lots of people…boaters, fishermen and women, joggers, dog walkers, and picnicers…at Roger’s Pond yesterday. I wonder how many of them gave more than a glance to the water lilies? I wonder how many of them, like froggy here, were too absorbed in the day-to day to take time to admire what the sunlight was doing with the lilies?

Or am I being unfair to the frog (which clearly is a more important question to me than it is to the frog). Frogs just have that unfortunate face, from our particularly human point of view. We read misery, displeasure…boredom at the best…into those bulging eyes and that down-turned mouth, because, obviously, in humans that is what it would say. We attribute feelings to froggy which, in fact, he almost certainly does not share. For all I know, froggy was as enraptured as I was by the light in the lilies. Or not. Probably not. Enrapture might well be one of the perks of the particularly human point of view. It might in fact, be part of our common inheritance as children of the Creator God. I suspect it is.

But then, am I being unfair to all the other people at Roger’s Pond that day (which is clearly a question that is more important to me than it is to them)? If enrapturement…a deep and satisfying appreciation, an arresting appreciation, of beauty…is a human characteristic, then certainly more my fellow humans around the pond might have been experiencing it in the presence of the luminous water lilies. Yes? Despite appearance to the contrary.

I can’t read anything into the attitude of the frog. Maybe I should avoid reading too much into the attitude of the humans.

After all, I did not even see the frog in the image until I looked closer in processing. Some people are just hard to make an impression on!

Happy Sunday.