Friday Photography - Changing Light of Autumn

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 6:33pm

Evening all. It's a perfectly warm and sunny day after some heavy rain and wind. Autumn has definitely arrived. We turned back the clocks last weekend, shortening an already shortening day. I'lll be back and forth in the thread for awhile, in between cleaning and gathering ingredients for dinner with friends. I'll open a special bottle of pinot noir I've been saving. Enjoy your evening.

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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 6:41pm

Hey, Janis, I was about to post...

Anyway

It's been snowing for nigh on two days. Ugh!

So, as I've been going through old photos, a shot from a warmer time:

And a little comedy, from a few years back, Santa Mato:

Going out to shovel stuff away from the foundation. Thank goodness it's Friday.

What's the first shot?

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 6:57pm

Evening Bollox

@Bollox Ref

I see the snow is getting in its last licks. Sorry about the effort it requires to live with.

The photo is of two shells in a black bowl. One is a large muscle shell with smaller shells that attached themselves over time, and the other is a small scallop shell. I found both on the beach of a beautiful bay last full moon.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 7:22pm

Santa Mato. Love it.

@Bollox Ref

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 7:12pm

Hey groupers

Thanks for the visuals, as always. Changing light, bulbs popping here. Amazing array of sights Bollox. Like the idea of a pinot, suffering with an old vine zin. Not bad. Love the greens in your forested wonderland Janis!

Enjoy!

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 7:18pm

I wish you could join us QMS,

@QMS

it would be fun.

I'm surprised my eyes haven't turned green yet.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 7:14pm

Thanks for Friday Photos tonight, Janis

Great shots, I really like the second one.

The latest addition to the pack of pachyderms at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 7:21pm

Thanks Social

@Socialprogressive

Glad you appreciated the fern I passed while carefully treading the wet deck this morning.

One day I might make it back to the amazing San Diego Zoo. But in the meantime you bring it so alive.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:40pm

Thank you, Janis.

@janis b
I hope you're able to make it back for a visit to the zoo or safari park. Either one are a great way to spend a day.

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 7:32pm

Ha, ha lalaphoones

@Socialprogressive
heard a kid try to say the elephant word and it came out lalaphoone. Can't seem to unimagine that one. Amazing beasts. And the tricks they do with their trunks! Love when they hold trunk to tail in a procession. Pachyderms.

Cheers!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:44pm

Lalaphoones.

@QMS
I don't think I'll be able to unimagine that one either.

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Submitted by magiamma on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 7:24pm

Hi janis...

and everyone.

Thanks for Friday POT.

Went drawing again today. Really opens my eyes.

I think these are band-tailed pigeons. Thoughts...

band-tailed pigeions.jpg

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 7:42pm

Hi magiamma

@magiamma

What a fanciful pigeon photo.

Enjoy your drawing, and the weekend.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 9:01pm

Looks like you

@magiamma
have a very busy bird feeder, Magiamma. I should put one in my backyard.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 7:24pm

Snowing here too but thankfully it's not sticking

This meadow is at the top of Sonora pass in the Sierra. Kennedy Meadows has cabins, a restaurant and general store and horse back trips to the incredible backcountry of the Emigrant wilderness. I have to find my other pictures of my trip there. This was the first time Bodega saw snow and she would run downhill and slam on her brakes so she could slide... over and over and over... funny dawg.

Man I wish I could have been there to see this.

[video:https://youtu.be/i68P82YUHJE]

Ditto on the ?? of the first photo.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 7:40pm

Hi snoopy!

@snoopydawg

Too bad surfers can't jump like dolphins.

The Sonora Pass photo is stunning. Hope you find some others.

See my reply to Bollox about the shell photo.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:27pm

This area of the Sierra really is beautiful

@janis b

I tried to link the results of my search for Kennedy Meadows and the surrounding areas but it doesn't link right. Try it and see for yourselves how incredible it is.

I did see your comment to him on what you first photo is. Interesting. Did you watch the video? Watching big waves is so mesmerizing.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 9:19pm

I did watch, and will look up the Sierra area later.

@snoopydawg

I'm sure I'll enjoy seeing more photos of it.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:53pm

Hey, Snoopy

@snoopydawg
Really nice B&W landscape.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 9:19pm

Thanks

@Socialprogressive

I'm sure I have more pictures of this area. Somewhere. Do you get to the Sierra much? Aren't you close to the Bishop area? I never got that far, but spent lots of time at Mammoth lakes. It's the Ansel Adams wilderness area. Oh so beautiful!

Love your pictures of the baby elephant.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 11:18pm

The summer I

@snoopydawg
graduated high school I spent a week backpacking in Yosemite(a great experience) but since then I haven't spent any time in the Sierra's. Bishop is about 6 hours north from me. I'm in Santee, just a stones throw east of San Diego.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 1:01am

Off of Tioga pass?

@Socialprogressive

I went on two backpacking trips from there. We spent two hours putting our food in the tree and it took the Bears two minutes to get to it. So we had to walk out the next day.

Pine Tree is close to Bishop right? Have you been there? Mammoth? If you get the chance to go to Mammoth do. The town is nothing to see, but just 10-15 minutes up the road you are in gawd's country. This is one of the very few pictures I took that turned out. I was using a film camera and went on a long hike to get better views of everything and got one picture and then ran out of film.
I hope you get the chance..

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Submitted by dystopian on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 3:53pm

Great Sierras pics S.D.

@snoopydawg There is a small town called Big Pine, 15 miles south of Bishop, maybe that is what you are thinking of? I was class of '73 there (high school). Lone Pine which is the gateway to Mt. Whitney is 45 mi. S. of Bishop. The Mammoth Lakes area is spectacular, so are June and Convict Lakes nearby. I have hiked a bit in the central Sierra Nevada, both east and west sides. The east side in particular is as scenic as you can stand it.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 5:46pm

Big Pine probably yes

@dystopian

Guess I got the names confused. Sure wish I had taken time to go further on 395. I grew up going to Jackson Hole Wyoming for the weekend and thought Mammoth the town would be like that. Big bummer when it looked much like the most of Nevada. But then I drove to the lakes and just wow!

Mammoth and Bodega Bay sang to my soul. I felt so much peace when I went to either place.

Hopefully you will post some photos of the area you grew up with? How lucky for you to be so close to that wilderness. I've spent all but 15 years in Utah and have never been to Bryce or the Grand Canyon. Just not interested in either. Been to Zion and Arches though. But now they are crammed with people that it's no fun.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:03pm

great pix people!

Great pix Janis. Funny thing how that scale thing is. Final answer for all the dough, the first picture looks like a petri dish with a battle of the bacteria in full swing, seen it many times myself.

Great Band-tailed Pigeon photo Magi! It is a BIG pigeon, and a beauty too.

Love the elephant shots SP. What a neat beast, great pix!

Just when I thought I had seen it all, there is a freakin Santa Mato! Good work B.R.!

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Submitted by lotlizard on Sun, 04/14/2019 - 12:20am

Or like the mutated mold thingies in the movie “Annihilation” …

@dystopian

like a petri dish with a battle of the bacteria in full swing

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:12pm

Yeah, that scale thing dystopian

I kept that mussel shell because whenever I look at it it reminds me of the cosmos.

I photographed it with the scallop I found on the same beach which was the colour of the full moon rising at the time.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:28pm

Nice!

@janis b

Great photo.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:55pm

Sweet!

@janis b

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Submitted by dystopian on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 3:55pm

beautiful photo Janis

@janis b Great pic! Beautiful!

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:14pm

Here are some spring flowers.

Here are some spring flowers... to balance Janis' autumn.

A couple Pincushion Daisy in various stages of opening. The lack what we typically think of as petals.

Texas Onion - a sweet delicious scallion I would put up against any.

Standing Winecup - I hate autofocus

Some refraction in a spider web

Thanks everyone for all the great posts, here, and all over the site, all week!

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:25pm

How beautifully complimentary dystopian,

@dystopian

Your sunny Spring and NZ's darkening Autumn.

The Winecup looks like if I poured a drop it would fall to the ground. Your spider web looks like music. Thank you.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:30pm

Love the spider web

@dystopian

I've always wanted to take pictures of one, but I can't find any.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 9:06pm

Nice flower shots, Dystopian

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and I really like the spider web shot.

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Submitted by mimi on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 8:28pm

Thank God there are photos

the same way Thank God there is music.

I have no words, but my eyes get it.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 9:21pm

I'll say it again mimi,

@mimi

"you are a treat" ...

I have no words, but my eyes get it.

Submitted by travelerxxx on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 1:47am

Fern?

That second shot is a fern, Janis? And growing out from a crack in a board fence?

Amazing!

Submitted by dystopian on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 3:57pm

Thought the same at first glance...

@travelerxxx but upon scrutiny I think it is oxidized metal (brass or somesuch)?

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Submitted by janis b on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 11:20pm

Hi dystopian

@dystopian

You and traveller have shown that there is a reason it is called the Silver Fern ... https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/maori/si...

I read about an app today that is relevant to your work which you may know of or use something similar to, 'seek-naturalist' ... https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app

Submitted by janis b on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 11:28pm

If you enlarge the image you will see all the spores.

@janis b

Submitted by janis b on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 11:15pm

Yes traveller it is.

@travelerxxx

You have validated the reason it is called the Silver Fern ... https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/maori/si...

I appreciate your appreciation of photography. If you ever want to share images you might have from your travels they would be more than welcome.

Submitted by janis b on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 11:27pm

ps

@janis b

sorry for misspelling your name, travelerxxx. Can I use 'traveler' or would you prefer I use travelerxxx. I enjoy thinking of you as simply a traveler with one 'l' ; ).

Submitted by travelerxxx on Sun, 04/14/2019 - 12:14am

Name game

@janis b

sorry for misspelling your name, travelerxxx. Can I use 'traveler' or would you prefer I use travelerxxx.

No worries! I found that it can be correctly spelled with either one or two L's. Evidently, in the UK it's not unusual to find it with two L's.

The name came about as I used to travel from northern Kansas to the Gulf of Mexico every seven days due to work. I'd spend a week working, then head back. Those days are long gone, but the handle stuck around ... simply for the sake of convenience.

You may certainly use traveler or traveller, as you wish. My wife knows me as Terry.