Posts Tagged ‘Photos’
Snowflakes
I’ve been out in the cold chasing snowflakes:
I stood with a high magnification lens on a tripod, waiting for flakes to fall on a dark oak leaf I set out. A few times a beautiful intact flake fell and then the wind blew the leaf – I stuck the leaf in the snow. I ended [...]
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Maple and beech leaves
Some beautiful fall leaves, taken on a rainy day late afternoon deep in the woods:
Why is fall so short? The peak colors last such a short time, a day of windy weather blows it all away. It was dim when I took this, an 8 second exposure.
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Foxtails and dragonfly
The companion image to the previous one, taken the same evening:
Chasing after this meadowhawk (Sympetrum species) is what made me lose signt of the neat little bug in the last post. The insect season is tailing off quickly – there are a lot fewer insects out now, we’ve had our first frost.
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Foxtails and rider
A few weeks back I spent a few evenings in a meadow filled with foxtails at sunset. At a certain moment, just before the sun went down into the surrounding woods, there were narrow rays of sunlight sreaming through parts of the meadow. Here’s one sight from the meadow:
I never found out what the bug [...]
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Green ripples
Ever since I posted the Winter reflection image I wanted to try a similar image with green water color from forest leaves. I found the right place – a branch of a forest stream after a rain – and made this image of water ripples:
Not quite a parallel image to the winter one, but a [...]
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Least Skipper
Least skipper is a tiny butterfly about the size of a dime. They have a fluttery, weak flight, but they are pretty easy to disturb, so they are a tricky subject. I find them in grasses near wet areas.
Happily I found a couple of them recently on a cool cloudy day – they weren’t flighty [...]
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Copper Underwing Caterpillar
Sometimes you have to take a trip to see somethng new, sometimes it’s right there in your yard. I found this Copper Underwing moth caterpillar munching on my oakleaf hydrangea:
It was the afternoon of a blue sky day. I was lucky it was in a shadowy spot, there was just a bit of light [...]
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Tulips
Spring is blooming – wildflowers and garden flowers as well. Here’s a complementary color scheme for a favorite garden flower:
I had a great day outside in the yard, getting wet in the drizzle, taking in all the flowers. Bluebells blooming, trillium, grape hyacinth, violets, an explosion of flowers.
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Bloodroot
My bloodroot finally came up last week. The first few flowers were the usual eight petal white type. Then this weekend another pair blossomed and they were double or triple the usual number of petals.
A welcome surprise. Lots of wildflowers are coming up now – trout lily, dutchmans’s breetches, trillum – I just have to [...]
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Bubble blur
Another brook image, but one of a very different character than the others. This is a long exposure of a small patch of bubbles, spinning around in an eddy in the stream. There were highlights on one side from late afternoon sunshine and the blue sky gave the water its hue:
The exposure was 1.6 seconds. [...]
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