There was a moist fog hanging in the air the other night when I noticed the sun was casting its orange light against the sky as it set in the distance. I grabbed the camera and the tripod and walked over to the bridge to take a few photos. While the sunset may not have [...]
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The beavers who live near our place have been locked in battle with some of the local human residents. (Luckily our house is up on a hill so we have remained neutral in the war.) The latest casualty, however, has been the small trees at the back of our property. I went out early one [...]
Reflection in the creek along our house. The trees are so colorful this time of year!
If you walk through the woods behind our house you can find a small clearing along the creek from which you can look out over the water and the field on the other side. This time of year it is a very pretty sight with all the trees changing colors and their reflection in the [...]
Tried to catch some nice evening sun down by the water the other day. Got some nice colors in this HDR image of the grasses even if none of the orange light came through. Really happy with the LR/Enfuse HDR plug-in though. The price is reasonable (donationware) and it can batch-process multiple images stacks. Not [...]
Every spring the turtles come up from the creek and dig their nests in the yard at the side of our house. So far we’ve seen at least five turtles laying their eggs, and we can see traces of at least another half dozen nests that appeared when we weren’t watching. This turtle is a [...]
The geese have returned to out yard again to raise thier young and graze for food. This is the smaller of two families we have this year. As usual they are a little camera-shy, or at least still weary of large bipeds. (They start to get over that after the babies are grown.) I did [...]
I really love that we have this creek on our property. It is beautiful to look at and it attracts a ton of diverse wildlife to our yard. Even the old stone bridge is cool to look at, and we often find people stopping to draw/paint/photograph the view from the road. Water is a powerful [...]
