Captured in our front yard:

Captured in our front yard:
My commute nowadays is a short walk through the woods behind our house. The light is hopeful and other creatures have created more beautiful structures than I ever could. 10 minutes of serenity and I’m ready for whatever the day holds in store for me.
Not many photo opportunities when you’re quarantined, except the view out the window. But what a nice view it is:
Last night it snowed lightly and I captured these images before the snow melted.
iPhone, Hipstamatic app
iPhone, Hipstamatic app
Walked to the Mall after work on Friday and captured these photos. A wonderful time to be in DC, except this year it’s unseasonably cold. Nevertheless, the water’s edge was packed with tourists (i.e. camera-toting) and locals (i.e. picnicking).
Captured these leaves with frozen drops of rain on a recent walk in the neighborhood, using my umbrella to ensure a uniform background. The second shot reminded me of stalactites in a cave.
Canon 5D Mark II, EF 100mm f/2.8 macro lens
As seen from our backyard porch. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I used Snapseed’s new double exposure feature to create this scene, which combines two different views from the Clinton town beach:
iPhone, edited with Snapseed
Saw this hawk looking for prey at sunrise behind our house. Here are two different takes on that scene, both shot with my iPhone, but one with the Hipstamatic app.
Top of a pillar of the wooden bridge that connects to our town beach in Clinton, captured after the first frost of winter:
iPhone, edited in Adobe Lightroom
I discovered lots of interesting gnarled trees and their roots hugging the boulders strewn around Smuggler’s Notch near Stowe. Click on any picture to see them in slideshow format.
Canon 5d Mark II, EFL 16-24mm
B&W conversion in Adobe Lightroom
Walking through the Vermont woods, I was struck by the beautiful birch tree bark everywhere. Click on any picture to see them as full screen slideshow.
Canon 5D Mark II, EFL 24-70mm f/2.8
Hundreds of acres of forest in Yellowstone Park were destroyed in massive fires in 1988, requiring over 9,000 firefighters and affecting almost 800,000 acres of forest (bigger than Rhode Island). The remnants of that destruction can still be seen:
Canon 7D, 10-24mm
ISO 400
f/20
1/160 sec
Seems utterly plausible that Batman could swoop through this scene, doesn’t it?
Canon Powershot G12
edited with Nik Silver Efex 2
This lovely spot outside our house is even quieter in winter, when the snow smothers all sounds.
Canon 7D, EF10-22mm f/3.5-4.5
ISO 200
f/4.5
1/1250 sec
Not sure what kind of tree this is, but I loved this twisted, gnarled, lonely pine tree near Lone Mountain in Montana.
Canon 7D, EF40mm f/2.8
ISO 400
f/11
1/640 sec
Playing around with the double exposure setting of the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone, I composed this picture of our dog and the fall trees:
The river near our house always offers some great vistas when the water is calm. These 2 shots were from last week. I hope we’ll see some leaves on these trees soon…
A hazy and foggy morning created some good opportunities to isolate this tree from the background (which is usually a green marsh).
Canon Powershot G12
ISO 100
f/8
1/500th sec
+1/3 exposure
Because I look forward to shooting green and colorful landscapes again. Until then, black&white will have to suffice.
Canon 7D, EF 24-70mm f/2.8
ISO 125
f/8
1/1000 sec
B&W conversion with Silver Efex Pro
I love old pine trees in winter. These were captured in Stowe, VT and Big Sky, MT.
iphone Hipstamatic
lens: Lucifer IV
film: Blackeys B&W
This tree has a commanding presence in our neighborhood. Can’t wait for the leaves to return this spring.
iphone Hipstamatic, adjusted with Snapseed
Fresh snow, a setting sun, plus some fiddling with various filters, and voila: a different take on the typical sunset.
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
Spotted this lovely barn on a walk through the snowy forest in Vermont:
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 200
f/7.1
HDR
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
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
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
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.