Springtime in Auckland brings warmer temperatures, but so far not much less rain. As much as I love the rain I am really ready for more than just brief intermissions of sun.
I hope wherever you are your weekend will be pleasant, weather-wise and other-wise.
I think we are all moon-struck on occasion. Your vegetation is fascinating. It would take a Field Guide for me to ID. I had to do that in IN for several college courses! In winter. I have spent over an hour so far washing and soaking dried blood from my head. Progress is slow, more to go. I shall persist. At least no more creaks and cracks and no further blood. I look forward to photos, more!
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Here's another one for you. It's a very colourful Australian intruder - the Rosella.
Please mind your head and be mindful of each step you take.
I think we are all moon-struck on occasion. Your vegetation is fascinating. It would take a Field Guide for me to ID. I had to do that in IN for several college courses! In winter. I have spent over an hour so far washing and soaking dried blood from my head. Progress is slow, more to go. I shall persist. At least no more creaks and cracks and no further blood. I look forward to photos, more!
so soft to the touch. Mosses and ferns bring out the witch in me, somehow. Out in the desert mountains those pale green lichens could cling and bake forever. Soon as they got wet by rain, they would get all fuzzy and expand. Thanks for bringing me back to a past I'd forgotten!
Plenty of expanding right now. Really more like swelling, and oh so soft and cool. Even in very low light the moss and lichen appear to glow. What a treat! Glad to bring back pleasant memories.
so soft to the touch. Mosses and ferns bring out the witch in me, somehow. Out in the desert mountains those pale green lichens could cling and bake forever. Soon as they got wet by rain, they would get all fuzzy and expand. Thanks for bringing me back to a past I'd forgotten!
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as the dew drops in. In a little corner of the enchanted forest, you can sometimes find miniature toadies playing in the moss and ferns. They all play different instruments and the symphony is mesmerising. They bring you into their realm. Helps to have a foggy background...
Plenty of expanding right now. Really more like swelling, and oh so soft and cool. Even in very low light the moss and lichen appear to glow. What a treat! Glad to bring back pleasant memories.
#3.1 as the dew drops in. In a little corner of the enchanted forest, you can sometimes find miniature toadies playing in the moss and ferns. They all play different instruments and the symphony is mesmerising. They bring you into their realm. Helps to have a foggy background...
it's amazing what we can find during our daily activities. I look at everything wondering if I can capture this appropriately with my camera. I've heard that this is how most photographers go through life doing. Our eyes filter things out that a camera would pick up and I have been being more conscious of this.
I shot these this morning while out on a bike ride.
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it's amazing what we can find during our daily activities. I look at everything wondering if I can capture this appropriately with my camera. I've heard that this is how most photographers go through life doing. Our eyes filter things out that a camera would pick up and I have been being more conscious of this.
it's amazing what we can find during our daily activities. I look at everything wondering if I can capture this appropriately with my camera. I've heard that this is how most photographers go through life doing. Our eyes filter things out that a camera would pick up and I have been being more conscious of this.
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I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
I went to Yellowstone one winter to go cross country skiing. The moisture in the air from the geysers coated everything with frost. The buffaloes were coated with it as were my eye lashes. I'd have to pry it off so I could open my eyes. The guys that had beards had the same problem.
This day started out -46 degrees. But within 5 minutes, we were shedding clothes. a snow cat took us 10 miles from the lodge and we skied back. My friend and I left the road and followed the telephone lines. I'm scanning my slides and negatives and hope to find the picture of the trail we followed.
Our seasonal changes are much more subtle. I miss seeing the more dramatic changes in the north, so thank you for these wonderful photos. What a perfect Halloween tree image!
I have taken so many pictures of the cemetery where I walk. Even though I have been walking there for years, I'm seeing something new every day.
This has been one of the best falls I remember and with all the leaves changing, the walks have been more enjoyable.
These headstones are over a 100 years old
It looks like a new tree is growing from the bigger one.
Leaves and grass in the stream
Bright yellow
The Pigpen tree
Halloween tree
I have taken over 40 pictures of this tree and finally got one to turn out
I remember telling my brother that the trees out here are stupid. They changed colors for one week then they just fall off and that's it.
Every time I come upon this scene, I am in awe of it. I have tons of pictures of this, but none of them quite captures it. I finally got one I like, but the zoom on my phone camera does something weird to them.
So I changed it to this and I like how it softens the leaves. The sun was shining through the leaves in the front of the picture, but because of the zoom, it didn't turn out right.
My other camera is eating my batteries and when I lug my SLR with me, I can't find a decent shot. The lightening isn't right or something else. Sigh. Who the hell was Murphy?
Our seasonal changes are much more subtle. I miss seeing the more dramatic changes in the north, so thank you for these wonderful photos. What a perfect Halloween tree image!
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I remember telling my brother that the trees out here are stupid. They changed colors for one week then they just fall off and that's it.
Every time I come upon this scene, I am in awe of it. I have tons of pictures of this, but none of them quite captures it. I finally got one I like, but the zoom on my phone camera does something weird to them.
So I changed it to this and I like how it softens the leaves. The sun was shining through the leaves in the front of the picture, but because of the zoom, it didn't turn out right.
My other camera is eating my batteries and when I lug my SLR with me, I can't find a decent shot. The lightening isn't right or something else. Sigh. Who the hell was Murphy?
At first I thought it was because the batteries had sat in it for too long or that they had lost power. But I bought new ones and take them out when I'm not using it. I can only take about 5-7 pictures before they die.
I have looked online to see if I could find the answer for this. Many people have the same problem and some say it's the connectors that have lost their spring and a few other reasons, but nothing I have tried works.
I like this camera because I can change the settings just like a SLR. Macro, aperture and shutter priority and night and video settings.
I've looked at newer ones and too many don't have a viewfinder, just the display screen.
Do you have any ideas on how to fix this? It's a great little camera that takes 10 mp
is your camera that eats batteries a ‘pocket-size’ camera? Do you mean by eating batteries that the charge doesn’t last long, or that the batteries just die and can't be recharged?
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I haven’t had the same problem, but I will see if I find anything that might be helpful to you, and PM you if I do. I sometimes wonder with Canon, whether it has something to do with not using their original parts. Do you have a Canon battery? I have both the original and a copy. So far both work. I like it for the same reasons you do.
At first I thought it was because the batteries had sat in it for too long or that they had lost power. But I bought new ones and take them out when I'm not using it. I can only take about 5-7 pictures before they die.
I have looked online to see if I could find the answer for this. Many people have the same problem and some say it's the connectors that have lost their spring and a few other reasons, but nothing I have tried works.
I like this camera because I can change the settings just like a SLR. Macro, aperture and shutter priority and night and video settings.
I've looked at newer ones and too many don't have a viewfinder, just the display screen.
Do you have any ideas on how to fix this? It's a great little camera that takes 10 mp
My SLR uses the canon lithium batteries and they hold their charges for months.
I have searched the net for information about the battery issue, but I haven't checked canons website.
I haven’t had the same problem, but I will see if I find anything that might be helpful to you, and PM you if I do. I sometimes wonder with Canon, whether it has something to do with not using their original parts. Do you have a Canon battery? I have both the original and a copy. So far both work. I like it for the same reasons you do.
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My SLR uses the canon lithium batteries and they hold their charges for months.
I have searched the net for information about the battery issue, but I haven't checked canons website.
I haven’t had the same problem, but I will see if I find anything that might be helpful to you, and PM you if I do. I sometimes wonder with Canon, whether it has something to do with not using their original parts. Do you have a Canon battery? I have both the original and a copy. So far both work. I like it for the same reasons you do.
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here's a bit of sunshine for you. i shot these with my cellphone on a lovely afternoon a week ago. there's a lovely state park on the gunpowder river where these were taken.
What is the one that looks like a demented gopher? Or is this how animals decorate for Halloween?
I'd like to know how long it took for the beavers to cut down the tree and how many worked on it? Amazing.
here's a bit of sunshine for you. i shot these with my cellphone on a lovely afternoon a week ago. there's a lovely state park on the gunpowder river where these were taken.
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hmm, gopher, perhaps you're looking at the milkweed pod with all of the bugs on it?
the tree was taken down in all likelihood by one beaver since all of the bite marks seemed pretty uniform as if it was from one set of teeth and there was not much vegetation around the tree flattened. he (or she) worked around the tree in circles. being a small tree, it probably didn't take him too long.
What is the one that looks like a demented gopher? Or is this how animals decorate for Halloween?
I'd like to know how long it took for the beavers to cut down the tree and how many worked on it? Amazing.
hmm, gopher, perhaps you're looking at the milkweed pod with all of the bugs on it?
the tree was taken down in all likelihood by one beaver since all of the bite marks seemed pretty uniform as if it was from one set of teeth and there was not much vegetation around the tree flattened. he (or she) worked around the tree in circles. being a small tree, it probably didn't take him too long.
hmm, gopher, perhaps you're looking at the milkweed pod with all of the bugs on it?
the tree was taken down in all likelihood by one beaver since all of the bite marks seemed pretty uniform as if it was from one set of teeth and there was not much vegetation around the tree flattened. he (or she) worked around the tree in circles. being a small tree, it probably didn't take him too long.
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Especially for the silky milkweed. I would truly love to walk through a field of milkweed again. It's one of my most pleasant memories from childhood.
here's a bit of sunshine for you. i shot these with my cellphone on a lovely afternoon a week ago. there's a lovely state park on the gunpowder river where these were taken.
@snoopydawg
The bluebirds do look rather grumpy, don't they? I think they're cute.
Since we're sharing fall photos, here's one I almost forgot. This is of the trail where I go walking and take many of these photos:
Many of the leaves have dropped with the high winds we've been having recently. We have Chinese elms in our yard though; they seem to hold on to their leaves longer into the winter.
I was hoping you'd post photos of the landscape of where you're living now.
I seem to be drawn to taking photos of trails and roads. I think it's because I wonder where they will lead me to.
My mom's boss gave me his Pentax when I was 18 and this is what started my love for photography. Our family went camping at Christmas meadows that is on the Evanston side of the Uintahs 8 miles in from the highway and this is one of the first pictures I took with my first camera. I hung this in my offices and when I got stressed out by work, I'd imagine walking down to the clearing to sit a spell.
It's the first picture I enlarged and it came out blue. I didn't know that to enlarge color photos, you have to add and subtract colors. I had added yellow, but I needed to subtract it and then add blue instead.
#10.1 The bluebirds do look rather grumpy, don't they? I think they're cute.
Since we're sharing fall photos, here's one I almost forgot. This is of the trail where I go walking and take many of these photos:
Many of the leaves have dropped with the high winds we've been having recently. We have Chinese elms in our yard though; they seem to hold on to their leaves longer into the winter.
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#10.1 The bluebirds do look rather grumpy, don't they? I think they're cute.
Since we're sharing fall photos, here's one I almost forgot. This is of the trail where I go walking and take many of these photos:
Many of the leaves have dropped with the high winds we've been having recently. We have Chinese elms in our yard though; they seem to hold on to their leaves longer into the winter.
@Daenerys
because I live to watch birds, too. I live in a rural area and right now I have literally hundreds of cranes a football field away from me, to the east, feasting in a corn field that was just harvested. People here drive for miles to see the cranes this time of year in the Bosque del Apache. We're fortunate to be in the cranes feeding area although we're about 60 miles east of their water habitat.
Thanks for the photos!
Here are some of my favorite photos from the couple of months we've been back in MN.
I'm told this is a chestnut-sided warbler, in fall plumage. I like how it turned out.
A chickadee throwing seeds!
Nashville warbler
a flicker and a bluebird
a very fluffy American redstart!
juvenile sharp-shinned hawk
downy woodpecker
another eastern bluebird; love these guys
Some time I'll share my non-bird critters and fungi.
And now I'm on a mission to find more hooded mergansers and get better photos of them.
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I'd never seen one before we moved back here either; I'd only ever seen yellow and yellow-rumped warblers before. I am constantly amazed by what I find when I go looking.
I don't think I have ever seen one before your photo. It's so sweet and beautiful.
I still have a couple flicker tail feathers, that I treasure. They are just beautiful. That photo with the bluebird is funny. Thanks Daenerys.
and also so truly satisfying. Thank you for sharing your sensitive vision.
#11 I'd never seen one before we moved back here either; I'd only ever seen yellow and yellow-rumped warblers before. I am constantly amazed by what I find when I go looking.
@Daenerys
More layers present. Cornell's Ornithology Lab has recordings of different bird calls, very informative. All are notated (who/where/when). Another layer.
#11 I'd never seen one before we moved back here either; I'd only ever seen yellow and yellow-rumped warblers before. I am constantly amazed by what I find when I go looking.
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as I often hear birds before I see them, then I know where to look. Audubon also has an app with recordings which is very useful in the field for identifying.
#11.1 More layers present. Cornell's Ornithology Lab has recordings of different bird calls, very informative. All are notated (who/where/when). Another layer.
for the Autumn light and the reminiscent quality that your work brings to photography in the Autumn. It’s amazing how much narrative can be animated through a photograph.
I have tried capturing them falling off the trees because of the wind, but no luck yet.
for the Autumn light and the reminiscent quality that your work brings to photography in the Autumn. It’s amazing how much narrative can be animated through a photograph.
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Hey Janis, thanks for posting.
Feeling a little tired tonight, so just pesto and pasta for tea.
I especially like the cloud shot. I assume it's a cloud, not a forest fire.
It snowed today, so no more butterflies and flowers for this year.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Hi Bollox
Pesto pasta is such a delicious and easy meal. I might enjoy some later myself.
One of the greatest advantages of all the rainfall now is the less likelihood of forest fires when it eventually starts to dry out.
Have a restful evening and weekend. Sorry about the end of butterflies and flowers for awhile.
Being monitored by a moon out my bedroom clerestories
I think we are all moon-struck on occasion. Your vegetation is fascinating. It would take a Field Guide for me to ID. I had to do that in IN for several college courses! In winter. I have spent over an hour so far washing and soaking dried blood from my head. Progress is slow, more to go. I shall persist. At least no more creaks and cracks and no further blood. I look forward to photos, more!
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Hi riverlover
Here's another one for you. It's a very colourful Australian intruder - the Rosella.
Please mind your head and be mindful of each step you take.
love the mosses
so soft to the touch. Mosses and ferns bring out the witch in me, somehow. Out in the desert mountains those pale green lichens could cling and bake forever. Soon as they got wet by rain, they would get all fuzzy and expand. Thanks for bringing me back to a past I'd forgotten!
Hi QMS
Plenty of expanding right now. Really more like swelling, and oh so soft and cool. Even in very low light the moss and lichen appear to glow. What a treat! Glad to bring back pleasant memories.
yes, they come alive
as the dew drops in. In a little corner of the enchanted forest, you can sometimes find miniature toadies playing in the moss and ferns. They all play different instruments and the symphony is mesmerising. They bring you into their realm. Helps to have a foggy background...
How atmospheric
and appealing that sounds.
Very nice series of photos, Janis
I really like the shot of the moon in the silhouette of the tree.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Thanks Social
Any photos you want to share?
Dried flower arrangement.
I shot these this morning while out on a bike ride.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
They're beautiful.
Thank you for the burst of sunshine as I await the skies to clear.
You're welcome, Janis
I'll trade you some of your rain for the 90-100 degree weather we've had for the last week.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Nice pictures
it's amazing what we can find during our daily activities. I look at everything wondering if I can capture this appropriately with my camera. I've heard that this is how most photographers go through life doing. Our eyes filter things out that a camera would pick up and I have been being more conscious of this.
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We're all just human lenses
that the camera lens was designed by.
Thank you Snoopy
I believe a good photographer can find a picture in just about anything they look at. Some day I hope to be that good.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Can't stand snow
It might look pretty once in a while, but it's a chore and a bore on a regular basis.
So another butterfly.... and dreams of warmer days.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Long winters with snow must require an awful lot of dreaming.
I bet you get good at dreaming over the long MN winters.
You can dream
But the driving can be nightmarish!
Gëzuar!!
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Heh
sorry. I couldn't resist
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That's not fair!
Gëzuar!!
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I'm sowwy
I went to Yellowstone one winter to go cross country skiing. The moisture in the air from the geysers coated everything with frost. The buffaloes were coated with it as were my eye lashes. I'd have to pry it off so I could open my eyes. The guys that had beards had the same problem.
This day started out -46 degrees. But within 5 minutes, we were shedding clothes. a snow cat took us 10 miles from the lodge and we skied back. My friend and I left the road and followed the telephone lines. I'm scanning my slides and negatives and hope to find the picture of the trail we followed.
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a study in eyes
Wow!
What a fantastic photo. Is that an old Polaroid sx70, by any chance? Taken in Ireland, maybe?
not sure
this one of a series I gleaned from the inter tubes for a study in physiognomy. Fascinating features to be found in faces.
Fascinating, for sure.
Thanks QMS.
Our weather last two weeks has been incredible
I have taken so many pictures of the cemetery where I walk. Even though I have been walking there for years, I'm seeing something new every day.
This has been one of the best falls I remember and with all the leaves changing, the walks have been more enjoyable.
These headstones are over a 100 years old
It looks like a new tree is growing from the bigger one.
Leaves and grass in the stream
Bright yellow
The Pigpen tree
Halloween tree
I have taken over 40 pictures of this tree and finally got one to turn out
Nation in distress
Thanks for hosting tonight, Janis
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Such beautiful light and colour, snoopy.
Our seasonal changes are much more subtle. I miss seeing the more dramatic changes in the north, so thank you for these wonderful photos. What a perfect Halloween tree image!
I too missed the seasonal changes when I lived in CA
I remember telling my brother that the trees out here are stupid. They changed colors for one week then they just fall off and that's it.
Every time I come upon this scene, I am in awe of it. I have tons of pictures of this, but none of them quite captures it. I finally got one I like, but the zoom on my phone camera does something weird to them.
So I changed it to this and I like how it softens the leaves. The sun was shining through the leaves in the front of the picture, but because of the zoom, it didn't turn out right.
My other camera is eating my batteries and when I lug my SLR with me, I can't find a decent shot. The lightening isn't right or something else. Sigh. Who the hell was Murphy?
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snoopy,
is your camera that eats batteries a ‘pocket-size’ camera? Do you mean by eating batteries that the charge doesn’t last long, or that the batteries just die and can't be recharged?
Yes, it's a canon powershot
At first I thought it was because the batteries had sat in it for too long or that they had lost power. But I bought new ones and take them out when I'm not using it. I can only take about 5-7 pictures before they die.
I have looked online to see if I could find the answer for this. Many people have the same problem and some say it's the connectors that have lost their spring and a few other reasons, but nothing I have tried works.
I like this camera because I can change the settings just like a SLR. Macro, aperture and shutter priority and night and video settings.
I've looked at newer ones and too many don't have a viewfinder, just the display screen.
Do you have any ideas on how to fix this? It's a great little camera that takes 10 mp
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I use a Canon Powershot SX280.
I haven’t had the same problem, but I will see if I find anything that might be helpful to you, and PM you if I do. I sometimes wonder with Canon, whether it has something to do with not using their original parts. Do you have a Canon battery? I have both the original and a copy. So far both work. I like it for the same reasons you do.
This camera uses AA batteries
My SLR uses the canon lithium batteries and they hold their charges for months.
I have searched the net for information about the battery issue, but I haven't checked canons website.
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I'm not sure how promising this info is,
but take a look ...
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3711828
It's about 10 years old
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evening janis...
here's a bit of sunshine for you. i shot these with my cellphone on a lovely afternoon a week ago. there's a lovely state park on the gunpowder river where these were taken.
Nice
What is the one that looks like a demented gopher? Or is this how animals decorate for Halloween?
I'd like to know how long it took for the beavers to cut down the tree and how many worked on it? Amazing.
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evening snoopy...
hmm, gopher, perhaps you're looking at the milkweed pod with all of the bugs on it?
the tree was taken down in all likelihood by one beaver since all of the bite marks seemed pretty uniform as if it was from one set of teeth and there was not much vegetation around the tree flattened. he (or she) worked around the tree in circles. being a small tree, it probably didn't take him too long.
That's fascinating, a spiral.
It looks like you captured the tree as it fell, or someone was lifting it up.
Is THAT what is
hmm, must be the drugs I'm on
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Thanks for the sunshine joe!
Especially for the silky milkweed. I would truly love to walk through a field of milkweed again. It's one of my most pleasant memories from childhood.
Evening everyone.
Here are some of my favorite photos from the couple of months we've been back in MN.
I'm told this is a chestnut-sided warbler, in fall plumage. I like how it turned out.
A chickadee throwing seeds!
Nashville warbler
a flicker and a bluebird
a very fluffy American redstart!
juvenile sharp-shinned hawk
downy woodpecker
another eastern bluebird; love these guys
Some time I'll share my non-bird critters and fungi.
And now I'm on a mission to find more hooded mergansers and get better photos of them.
This shit is bananas.
Two grumpy looking birds
Love the look on the first ones face and I think the other two are playing chess. But only one dimensional, not eleven
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Heh!
The bluebirds do look rather grumpy, don't they? I think they're cute.
Since we're sharing fall photos, here's one I almost forgot. This is of the trail where I go walking and take many of these photos:
Many of the leaves have dropped with the high winds we've been having recently. We have Chinese elms in our yard though; they seem to hold on to their leaves longer into the winter.
This shit is bananas.
Nice trail
I was hoping you'd post photos of the landscape of where you're living now.
I seem to be drawn to taking photos of trails and roads. I think it's because I wonder where they will lead me to.
My mom's boss gave me his Pentax when I was 18 and this is what started my love for photography. Our family went camping at Christmas meadows that is on the Evanston side of the Uintahs 8 miles in from the highway and this is one of the first pictures I took with my first camera. I hung this in my offices and when I got stressed out by work, I'd imagine walking down to the clearing to sit a spell.
It's the first picture I enlarged and it came out blue. I didn't know that to enlarge color photos, you have to add and subtract colors. I had added yellow, but I needed to subtract it and then add blue instead.
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That's a stunning photo.
Almost as good as being there, but not really.
I love your bird pics, Darneyrs
because I live to watch birds, too. I live in a rural area and right now I have literally hundreds of cranes a football field away from me, to the east, feasting in a corn field that was just harvested. People here drive for miles to see the cranes this time of year in the Bosque del Apache. We're fortunate to be in the cranes feeding area although we're about 60 miles east of their water habitat.
Thanks for the photos!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I love the fluffy redstart.
I don't think I have ever seen one before your photo. It's so sweet and beautiful.
I still have a couple flicker tail feathers, that I treasure. They are just beautiful. That photo with the bluebird is funny. Thanks Daenerys.
Thanks Janis
I'd never seen one before we moved back here either; I'd only ever seen yellow and yellow-rumped warblers before. I am constantly amazed by what I find when I go looking.
This shit is bananas.
It is truly amazing to go looking,
and also so truly satisfying. Thank you for sharing your sensitive vision.
Remember to listen as well.
More layers present. Cornell's Ornithology Lab has recordings of different bird calls, very informative. All are notated (who/where/when). Another layer.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Oh yes, listening is at least half of birding
as I often hear birds before I see them, then I know where to look. Audubon also has an app with recordings which is very useful in the field for identifying.
This shit is bananas.
Thanks all,
for the Autumn light and the reminiscent quality that your work brings to photography in the Autumn. It’s amazing how much narrative can be animated through a photograph.
Are you able to smell the leaves?
I have tried capturing them falling off the trees because of the wind, but no luck yet.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
That would be a wonderful image to capture! n/t
Swell diary
Thanxs all!
Wow, beautiful work and thread; thanks janis and all!
So beautiful, they had your name on them
thank you Janis B!
To thine own self be true.
Thank you for visiting and commenting.
It's always nice to hear from you. I hope all is going well in your neck of the woods with you, your art and family.