I Do Not Like Spring Gnats!

I love these longer days……more daylight which equals the opportunity to take more sunset photos for me.  I apparently can’t get enough.  🙂  But I have to tell you, on this day, it was rough.  I was so excited when I pulled into the lot and jumped out of the car, camera in hand and ready to snap away.  The sky was beginning to turn these amazing colors…..the water was like glass.   I rushed down one of the piers, picked my spot and began to snap away. 

I went to reposition myself, lowered the camera and OH.MY.GOD!  I can not even begin to explain the number of gnats that swarmed over me.  I tried to take a few more shots but I had to leave the pier…..immediately!!  Once I got back to the parking lot, not as bad but still more than I wanted to contend with.  I hurried over to another area ~ pretty much the same thing.  The sun was still a little higher than I wanted, so I sat in the Jeep, waited for it to set lower and watched the thousand of gnats outside the windows.  Of course, when I got out and took this shot…..they were all over me again. It was not fun!!

 When I opened up this image, it had specs from the little buggers…..I cloned them out because I really liked the photo.  Here’s hoping the spring gnats make a hasty exit ~ and soon!