Canada Geese
Like the Red-winged Blackbirds I wrote about last time, Canada Geese have found themselves in front of my camera pretty often lately. They’re something of an unexpected subject, or rather it’s unexpected that I’d come away with photos that I was happy with. Canada Geese aren’t the most wild of critters. I overheard some fishermen [...]
Simple Clicks – an oddity
This is a Pied-billed Grebe. Or at least his head. The rest of him is underwater and in the ten minutes or so that I was paddling near him, I only saw him come fully to the surface once. This grebe is a summer resident and one that I’ve never seen before. Rather than taking [...]
Red-Winged Blackbirds
It’s been a while since I’ve done a post on just one species, but after the past couple of weeks I’ve found that my “to be shared” folder is filled with photos of a couple different individuals, and this seemed the best way to get them out there. So we’ll start with the ubiquitous lake and [...]
Simple Clicks – Fresh snowfall panorama
Vertical panoramas are tricky. You need a narrow area of interest, something that will fit in the short dimension of the final composition. Perhaps more importantly, you need enough “stuff” to fill all that vertical space, and preferably stuff that is meaningful and worth the pixels. In this case, the image came about from my [...]
Simple Clicks – Twilight
Twilight on the lake, with the ice still there. This is from about 15-minutes before the photos in my last post, while I was warming up to the scene. Dropped the camera into Daylight white balance to get this look, which is really pretty true to the scene – it was very blue for a [...]
Fresh snowfall
Sunday morning finally gave me an actual, cloud-free sunrise, coupled with maybe a half-inch of fresh snow – perfect conditions to get out and shake off some of the cobwebs that keep building during these seemingly endless stretches of cold, bland weather. Related Posts:Starting the New Year in VermontSimple Clicks – 26 June 2010Simple Clicks [...]
Simple Clicks – perfect sunrise
When I saw this image appear on my computer screen, I instantly loved it. It’s a quiet, simple photo and, as sunrises go, it’s pretty low-key. No flashy light, no stunning clouds. Just an incredibly blue sky and the first blush of light on the hilltop. But I still love it, I guess because of [...]
Morning at Kent Pond
Back to Kent Pond two mornings after my first visit, this time with a mind to shoot the pond itself against the backdrop of the Green Mountains – which were looking a bit more brown this particular morning, being sadly free of snow. But the sunrise was decent and the rising light side-lit Pico Mountain [...]
Thanksgiving morning in Vermont
A surprising number of my holidays start this way – out in the cold, roving around a lake or through the woods, usually by myself. And maybe that sounds a little undesirable but really it isn’t. There’s something nice about starting the day off peacefully. And I love being outside at sunrise when the world is [...]
Searching for autumn – panoramas
As promised, a few panoramas from my search for autumn last weekend. The longer I shoot panoramas, the more I enjoy it, the wider view, the greater possible detail that I’m able to capture. In the one above, I blotched the actual whole-tree version I had tried to shoot – too much distortion. But in [...]
