Sunrise (and some cheating)
Out for sunrise again at Promised Land this morning, with an excellent forecast but a sky that bordered on being skunked up. A low haze formed and blocked out the sun, so no warm, direct sunlight as it crested the trees. In fact, even the pre-cresting glow shots were coming out a little bland, even [...]
Evergreen Grove
On a small penninsula at Lackawanna there’s a grove of evergreen trees, planted in straight lines, a remnant of the days when the area was still farmland, I suppose. It’s a small grove; a brisk walk will take you through it in about two minutes. But since the first time I hiked through, I’ve always [...]
A Good Evening
The sky cleared just before dinner, so before the dishes were even washed I grabbed some gear and ran out the door, getting up to Lackawanna with about an hour of daylight left, the light nice and golden. I was a bit ambivalent about going back up to the park, after all the shooting I’ve done there. [...]
Morning in Blue & Gold
Finally made it out this morning for sunrise – another of those hectic weeks where I didn’t get a camera in my hands for far too long and it left me feeling blah. In a strange approximation to guilt, I got up even earlier this morning to atone, heading out to Ford’s before the sun [...]
Muskrats!
Went out this morning to feed Frederick before the snowstorm really hit – after all, I can’t leave the poor guy hungry with a foot of snow coming down! As I trudged out through the drifts, I could see multiple…somethings…sitting on the edge of the ice. My first thought was mallards; mallards hang out there [...]
A few simple clicks
Got a half day at work on Friday, following two days called off due to snow, so suffice to say that last week was an easy one. I headed for the hills Friday afternoon looking for some solitude and hopefully a good click or two before a weekend spent with visiting family. My usual haunts [...]
Bird Studio – What kind of bird feed?
As interesting as the final results of a project such as a bird studio are, I’m always equally fascinated by the things I learn along the way. This project has been especially enlightening in little ways. For instance, bird feed. I always assumed that bird feed was bird feed – that there really wasn’t much [...]
Bird Studio – Feeders
As my project to build a backyard bird studio gets underway, the first step is finding a bird feeder, because they’re not going to just show up on their own and twitter, “Hey, we’re here!” (Of course, this presupposes that you have a location for the feeder; if not, then you’re SOL.) My mom had [...]
Backyard Bird Photography
Over the past six months I’ve devoted a lot of my photographic energy to tackling bird photography. It’s a field that I find very rewarding and continue to have a lot of fun with, to the extent that I’ve adjusted some of my equipment to meet its specific conditions. What hasn’t changed, however, is that [...]
Fords in the afternoon
With rain forecast for Sunday, Saturday afternoon was spent back out doors, up at Fords with my photography buddy Paul & his wife, Chris. The plan was mostly to enjoy the sunshine and hopefully come across some birds, although they few that were there played a winning game of hide-and-seek until we finally gave up [...]
