October 24, 2009
It started as a cool, cloudy, wet day in this big mid-westernish city. But leaves were falling and I couldn’t resist. I hit the woods but my luck was limited at best. I did find a fire lookout tower that provided a bit of a view…
Boring I know -but hey this is Ohio. Nothing like a mountain when you’re looking… Actually I should have done better -but at the moment I was standing, if you want to call it that, on a 2×3 foot platform 80 feet in the air with 40mph winds threatening to blow everything I owned over the side. Let’s just say I was thinking a good bit more about holding on than I was about taking the picture. I did get this.
Oh well, I tried. Things got a little better when I found Cedar Falls.
Not bad, but it would have been better with less beach. It does crop to a 4×5 format nicely though. Notice that overhanging rock -I brought it out of the black by a little flick of light from my sb-800.
This turned out ok too… lucky for me. Many of them didn’t. There was this other little issue of falling things -precipitation. Not that I mind really -it helped clear out the swarms of people and my camera doesn’t mind a few drops. But my lens… for some reason I didn’t notice the drops.
I lost dozens of images to the spots. Oops. Guess next time I will pay more attention.
Tags: color, flash, weather
Posted at 21:02 EDT in Photography.
October 3, 2009
Sometimes even the simplest things in life get a little confusing when you look below the surface.
In such times it is best to lean together and hope in the end it comes out straight.
Posted at 22:59 EDT in Photography.
September 26, 2009
It seems like forever since I have been able to spend a little time out with my camera.
Finally today I slipped out to Highbanks Metro Park to get a bit of fresh air.
It was nice and wet… and getting wetter but I stayed out anyway. There wasn’t much for wildlife but I really enjoyed this snail. Trouble was he was moving -snail’s pace or not it was too fast for a picture in a dark wood. The best I could do was open up the aperture a little bit more than I would have liked and turn up the ISO.
Out of 50 frames there were a few sharp ones.
I’m hoping that it won’t be too long before I’m out again.
Posted at 23:13 EDT in Photography.
September 22, 2009
Please welcome Fall, my favorite season.
The last several weeks have been very busy with the end of field season but we have had a great year.
One of the final Indiana Bats we captured was this one. She was already wearing a band and it wasn’t one of ours. Another researcher captured her some time ago and we were lucky enough to capture her again. This happens very rarely in bat research so we were very excited to see her. Right now we are still tracking down who originally captured her -hopefully we will find out soon. Many more interesting things have happened over the summer and I hope to pass some of them along to you in the coming weeks. Until then -happy Fall.
Tags: Indiana bats
Posted at 08:28 EDT in Biology, Research.
