Killdeer & Co
For a while now I’ve been heading to remote sites, trying to find the most likely places, the best wilderness. But when the best laid plans go afoul, it’s time to try something different. Instead of wilderness, I drove up to the township park, which is more oriented towards baseball games and family picnics than [...]
Simple Clicks – Signs of Autumn?
Growing up, apples were always a sign of autumn’s impending arrival. Apple picking was a September-ish thing. I remember a grade school field trip to the orchard; even more, I remember going with my mother to pick apples for the many, many autumn desserts that she always baked. We’d pick a lot of apples. Sometimes [...]
Simple Clicks – Foggy Mornings
Foggy mornings are one of my favorite things. In some ways it’s probably a contradiction. After all, a thick fog eats up light and makes the world damp; it throws off the light meter and makes exposure and AF tricky at best. But at the same time, it rewrites the scene and can turn a [...]
Simple Clicks – Unlikely Fusion
I can’t recall ever hearing too many kind things said about cell towers. Not even the ones that are (poorly) disguised as trees. This one appeared on the far side of the hayfield up at Fords Pond – appeared with such surprising suddenness that I did a double take the first time I saw it. [...]
Simple Clicks – Sunrise
I’ve strayed away from landscape/nature photography during the past year, in favor of wildlife and people (not much people work lately, but that’s soon to change). But when the light is perfect, I look for worth-while landscape images. Shooting through the fog, into the sunrise is a bit cliche. So are spider webs with dew. [...]
Simple Clicks – Oxbow Lake
Checked out Oxbow Lake with my friend and fellow photog Paul (and his wife Chris) – I’d been there once before, about a year ago, on a morning where the fog was so thick that I could hardly see the water from the shore! At the time I kind of wrote the site off. Then [...]
Simple Click – 26 June 2010
Out on a scouting mission this morning – I’ve been to Ricketts Glen plenty of times, but this was the first time that I was there for something other than the waterfall trail. Checked out the lake shore and the Hayfield and got some good ideas of where to find critters in the future. Found [...]
Weekend Birds
Two mornings in a row turned out to be pretty productive – added three new bird species to my collection! That’s better than my normal average, and just goes to show that as the seasons continue to progress, new critters move in and old ones move on. The more I experience nature, the more I [...]
Thursday, April 29th
Here’s a couple more from last night; a few grabbed between birding shots, and a couple more from after the light fell too low and I swapped out to the 17-35. This was a grab with the big lens – just a little study in lines and light.
Sunflowers
It started raining here last night and doesn’t show any sign of stopping, so let’s step back a few days to some sunnier subject matter. Mandy came home from the grocery store with some sunflowers the other day and stuck them in a pretty blue glass vase on the kitchen table. I’ve had my eye [...]
