Fixed focal length challenge-Day 2

So today I ventured out again with my 50 mm lens on the Nikon, and what should I spot but a GREEN HERON. Naturally it was too far away for a good picture with the 50mm, and that really sucks (to use a crass bit of vernacular)! I have kept my eye out for a green heron all summer AND all last summer, without spotting even one, and there it stood in the marsh, well within reach of the 70-300mm lens that was sitting at home in a drawer. Do you think it would have been too undignified if I (white hair and all) had collapsed next to the marsh and sobbed? That's what I felt like doing, but I didn't. It might have frightened the little boy who came up to ask me if I saw the three turtles and did I want to take a picture of them. Well, no, I didn't, not really. I wanted to take a picture of the green heron...with my non-existent 300mm lens, but instead I thanked the little boy and blipped the turtles. I'm not posting that blip because, like the heron, they were too far away.

So today you get another flower. If I weren't committed to the fixed focal length challenge this week, I am sure I wouldn't have blipped this flower. It is sort of pretty, but I have a lot to learn about the 50mm lens. It's not just that it is a fixed focal length, it is also faster than any other lens I have, so I have to recalibrate my brain if I am going to nail the exposure on any of the shots I take this week. Oh yes, I have a LOT to learn. Please stick with me, Blipfriends, and let me know if you think I am making any headway in this challenge. Two days down and five more to go. Why oh why did that green heron have to show up this week?