A Foggy Morning View of the Lake

This view is from a walk that I took one morning, late last fall. It was a very foggy morning, but I remember hearing the birds - hundreds of birds - sounding away from wherever they were hiding in the grass or in the trees.

Faux Winter Mountains

Last winter, I was playing around with the idea of composing fakes and miniatures. Living in a fairly flat region, I thought it might be cool to capture the 'mountains' of snow that we get piled up here in the winter time.

Watercolor (Filter) White-Throated Sparrow

Back Feathers in Focus

The way that I had my F-stop set, the back feathers of this little bird were very well in focus. The tail feathers are slightly out of focus (a little too close?) and the head is significantly blurred. I liked the overlapping, stacked appearance of the wing feathers. I thought it was an interesting perspective on this chipping sparrow.

Squirrel, watching

Years ago I heard a joke about "eats shoots and leaves". Depending on where the commas were placed, you were either talking about a panda bear (it eats shoots and leaves" or the kind of thing that might happen in a saloon (where the gunslinger eats, shoots, and leaves). In the case of this picture, I was squirrel watching, when I happened to catch this squirrel, watching. (What it was watching, I do not know, but there seems to be something that caught its interest.)

Frog in the Grass

As I was walking along, I spotted (ha, ha... pun intended) this little frog in the grass. Actually, I first noticed the other frogs, which were jumping through the grass about five feet ahead of me. I tried to be as still as I could, walking a little more carefully, when I noticed this frog. Inching up to him, I managed to approach this frog in such a way that it remained for a long time -- while I found several angles from which to take its picture.

Red Dragonfly on the Rocks

I was actually hoping to find a blue dragonfly yesterday, but you know what they say -- "Beggars can't be choosers." (Actually, I was quite pleased to find a red dragonfly. This one stayed on the rocks, next to this plant, long enough for me to snap several pictures.)