Visions of Vermont snow are always on my mind these days:
iphone Hipstamatic
lens: Tinto 1884
film: Claunch 72 Monochrome
Archive for the ‘nature’ Tag
Winter Dreams 1 comment
Winter Forest Colors Leave a comment
Vermont forest in winter – even now there are lots of colors in the forest.
This one was a double exposure experiment:
iphone Hipstamatic
lens: Helga Viking
film: Kodot XGrizzled
Reflections on the Pavement 2 comments
Caught these while walking the dog one morning, and thus mostly looking down.
Snow Cone Leave a comment
I didn’t taste it, but it looked exquisite to me:
Canon EOS 7D, EF 24-70mm
ISO 100
50mm
f/2.8
1/800 sec
The Red House in the Snow 4 comments
Spotted this lovely barn on a walk through the snowy forest in Vermont:
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 200
f/7.1
HDR
Heading Home 3 comments
These geese were making a few passes over the field behind our house during sunrise, and then they disappeared beyond the horizon. Hope they found a warm place to set down.
iphone Hipstamatic, Jane lens, Ina’s 1969
Vermont Waterfall 2 comments
From an earlier vacation to Vermont – Glen Moss Falls near Stowe.
Canon Powershot G12
ISO 100
f/8
1.0 sec
Winter Wonderland – Vermont 5 comments
The frosted forests of Vermont would have made the perfect setting for the ice princess in the Chronicles of Narnia.
All photos taken with iPhone Hipstamatic
Frosty Dog Walk 5 comments
Beach Panoramas Leave a comment
I think that cropping some pictures of large vistas focuses the eye on the essential part of the picture – too much sky and things tend to get lost. Here are some recent pictures where I tried that approach:
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- Long Island Sound
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- Clinton Town Beach
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- Storm Brewing
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- Sunset with Swans
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- Clinton Town Beach
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- Sunset colors
Bark Leave a comment
Macro in the Morning Leave a comment
Details of a recent morning walk:
Ice Sculptures 1 comment
I discovered these ice formations during a walk through the Vermont woods yesterday morning:
Art Walk in the Backyard 1 comment
I shot these while walking our dog on a crisp morning. Even in black&white, nature is gorgeous:
Canon EOS 7D, 24-7omm EF f/2.8, B&W conversion with SilverEfex
Winter Beach Walk 2 comments
Even in the cold, wet weather, the local beach provides some good photo opportunities – you just have to get close to your subject.
All shot with iPhone, edited with Snapseed
Shooting the Sun 3 comments
I know that the rule is to keep the sun out of the picture, and preferably behind you, but this time I thought I’d experiment doing the opposite.
ISO 100, 60mm, f/22, 10 sec, using 10x ND filter
ISO 100, 24mm, f/20, 1/250sec
ISO 100, 24mm, f/22, 1/160 sec
All photos taken with Canon EOS 7D, 24-70mm EF lens
Cold is Here 6 comments
Early morning weather in CT today. ‘Stick season,’ as the locals call it, is here. Still, there’s beauty in it, especially in early morning and evening light. Reminds me of the moody paintings of the romantic German painter Caspar David Friedrich, one of my favorites.
Canon EOS 7D, 50mm f/1.4
ISO 200
f/22
1/800 sec
Here are two paintings of Caspar David Friedrich:
The Last Burst of Color 5 comments
Now that the leaves are down, I just need to post one more shot that reflects how I felt when watching the leaves turn in Vermont: a veritable EXPLOSION of color!
Canon EOS 7D, 24-70mm
ISO 100
f/20
1/15
multiple focal lengths
Fall Silhouettes Leave a comment
Taken a few days before hurricane Sandy, when the weather was still nice enough to wander to the beach without a heavy jacket.
Canon EOS 7D, EF 24-70mm
Top: ISO 100, 70mm, f/2.8, 1/2500 sec
Bottom: ISO 100, 66mm, f/3.2, 1/320 sec
Forest Oddities Leave a comment
Only in the fall, when all the leaves are down, do you start noticing some of the other, equally beautiful things of the forest: mushrooms, bark, fungi.
Roadside Delights in Vermont 5 comments
Found this one alongside a road in Vermont:
Then I saw this road, and the entire road was surrounded by color, lit up by the sunrise:
But nothing surpassed the flame red foliage surrounding this pond:
Moonset over Fall Foliage 1 comment
Smuggler’s Notch, VT
Canon EOS 7D, EF24-70mm f/2.8L
ISO 160
f/13
1/80 sec
First Frost 7 comments
Fall is definitely here: we had the first frost in CT, and that provided some nice photo opportunities:
All images shot with Canon EOS 7D, 100mm Macro lens f/2.8
Fall Waterfalls 6 comments
Found these waterfalls in Vermont while hiking:
Near Smuggler’s Notch
Glenn Moss Creek Falls
Glenn Moss Falls, near Stowe, VT
All taken with Canon EOS 7D, 24-70mm lens, various apertures
Vermont Colors – Last Day: Panoramas 6 comments
A week in Vermont during peak foliage season was simply magical. Here are some parting shots, all taken near Stowe:
Vermont Colors – Day 7: Up Close 2 comments
This time I enjoyed getting very very close to my subject. Fortunately, the mushrooms didn’t move much. The frog was a bit more challenging – took about 3 minutes to get close enough for this macro shot.
Canon EOS 7D, 100mm EF-L f2/8
Vermont Colors – Day 5: Early Morning 4 comments
Finally had a day featuring a sunrise, and I was amply rewarded with beautiful light. Mixed with the early morning dew, it created some great photo opportunities:
Vermont Colors – Day 4: Black and White 3 comments
After the overdose of vibrant colors my eyes were subjected to during the first few days in Vermont, I decided to take a break from the colors. Instead, I focused on textures and contrasts to come up with some black & white photographs:
Forest Mushroom
Birch Bark
Pond Reflections
Vermont Colors – Day 3: Panoramas/Vistas 1 comment
Driving along Highway 100 in Vermont, I came across too many photo opportunities to ask my wife to stop for every single one of them. Still, I managed to take advantage of a few, catching the peak season of the famous Vermont Foliage:
Vermont Colors – Day 1 5 comments
I haven’t even been here for 24 hours, and already my camera is bursting with colorful shots of the fall foliage. And according to the foliage report, this isn’t even peak season yet! Stay tuned for more.
Canon EOS 7D, 70-200mm
ISO 200
Mr. Blue Sky Leave a comment
Today the sky was so blue I just had to post some pictures of it. And the fall blooms provided a nice contrast. It was the kind of gorgeous day that made me think of one of my favorite songs that always gets my feet tapping: ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ by ELO (“Sun is shining in the sky, there ain’t a cloud in sight…”).
All photos shot with iphone Hipstamatic.
Lightning on the Plains 4 comments
I captured this while driving through South Dakota on a warm summer night.
Shot in South Dakota, with Canon EOS 7D, EFS 15-85mm lens
ISO 200
f/5
64 sec
Big Open Spaces Leave a comment
Panorama shots taken on a drive across the USA. These are from Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska.
All shots taken with Canon EOS 7D.
Close Encounter of the Monkey Kind 1 comment
These monkeys had no fear – they prowled across the hotel property with impunity.
And this howler monkey didn’t care whether he was flashing us or not:
And this spider monkey thought he could fly:
All photos taken in Costa Rica in April 2012, with Canon EOS 7D, 200mm lens.
Elusive birds of Costa Rica 1 comment
While there’s a constant racket of bird chirps, screeches, and whistles in the background, the birds in Costa Rica’s are actually very hard to find because they hide in dense foliage of the rainforest canopy. I was lucky to get these shots during a week-long visit. Here is a Toucan, the national symbol of Costa Rica:
This was shot at 400mm, and then cropped by 2x. With the naked eye, the Toucan was just a dark blob in the foliage. Here’s another screecher (no idea what this one is called):
And here’s a hummingbird, the hardest one to catch on film because they dart so quickly from flower to flower:
All photos taken with Canon EOS 7D, 200mm or 400mm, ISO 1000 to ensure fast enough shutter speed.
Jurassic Park? No, Costa Rica! 1 comment
Saw quite a few lizards and iguanas in Antonio Manuel National Park yesterday morning. This one is a Ctenosaur – it was about 2 feet long and resting on a tree overlooking the beach:
And this one is a Plumed Basilisk, also known as the Jesus Christ Lizard, for his ability to run across water for up to 20 meters:
And these little ones (20 cm) ran so fast and their heads darted in all directions so frequently that they reminded me of the velociraptors in Jurassic Park:
All photos taken with Canon EOS 7D, 400mm, ISO 500, f/5.6, 1/160 sec
Sunrise in Antelope Canyon 6 comments
I shot this while on spring break vacation (2010) with my son in Arizona/Utah. This was in the Lower Antelope Canyon, around 11:30 in the morning, when a few openings in the canyon allow light to reach all the way to the floor of the canyon.
Canon EOS 7D, 15-85mm
ISO 125
15mm
f/14
13.0 seconds
Snapshots For Sore Eyes 