Posts Tagged ‘Photography’
Watkins Glen
Another image from my late summer visit to Watkins Glen – looking down in to a narrow part of the gorge:
I went to Ithaca a couple of weeks back, and there were icicles in the gorge already, even though the day temperatures were around 60, night temperatures around 40. Although I’d love to see these [...]
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California Bobcat
On my California trip, I took a hike down the Tennessee Valley Trail in the Marin Headlands. I was scouting out the area in late afternoon, gawking at the pretty hills, on my way to a beach, Tennessee Cove, when I ran into this creature:
In the East, I never run into wildlife like this at [...]
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Cataract Falls
Last week I visited Cataract Falls Trail on the north slopes of Mt. Tamalpais (Marin Co., California). There were literally dozens of falls along the mile or so of the trail, the tallest around 20 or 30 feet. Here’s a smaller cascade:
The trail was narrow and went straight up, 1100 feet in the first half [...]
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Heath aster
There are only a few flowers left these days, mostly asters in protected spots – blue asters, heath asters, other white asters. Here’s a series of images of one tiny heath aster, around 10mm across.
Shooting wide open gives a dreamy, minimalist look and hides the imperfections in the flower. Click a thumbnail to view a [...]
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Watkins Glen
A waterfall image from my last trip to the Ithaca area, two falls in the narrow Watkins Glen gorge:
This looks lonely and wild, but it’s a high traffic area. Lots of people walk through the gorge on a path built into the rock, out of sight, on the left. The worst part is that passersby [...]
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Dragonwing
A high magnification view of part of a dragonfly wing:
The dragonfly was a Black Saddlebags – clinging to a cedar tree on a cool fall day, it didn’t mind my getting a few inches away.
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Tags: abstract, Insects, Macro, Photography
Back to the falls
I visited Ithaca again recently and returned to Enfield Glen and Lucifer Falls. Here’s another look at Lucifer Falls on a nice cloudy day:
It’s an extraordinary place. Besides the water, the rock strata and foliage are beautiful – the flowers in the foreground are boneset and Joe Pye Weed.
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Bluet damselfly
A pond bluet (Azure bluet, I think) taken at a pond I’ve visited a lot this summer:
I wish there were more depth of field, but there’s a quality to this image I like. The pond meadow just was mowed, so it’s not going to be an interesting place to visit for a while. All the [...]
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Milkweed beetle
A favorite subject of mine is around again:
I’ve been seeing them for the last week or two, but there are lots of them now. I counted 15 in one small milkweed patch.
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Gorge above Lucifer Falls
Last week I made it back to Ithaca, NY, and visited a few waterfalls. I saw Taughannock Falls, a 130 foot vertical drop from a cliff into a wide rocky basin. The other waterfall site I made it to was Lucifer Falls, in the Upper Gorge area in Robert H Treman State Park. Enfield Creek [...]
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