tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27681794933607975102024-03-13T14:10:08.037-07:00Take Light, Add ShadowMy fun with photography.
Unless otherwise specifically noted, all photographs are by David Nash © 2010, all rights reserved.LightChaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324317560173332792noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2768179493360797510.post-43310980951650030042014-03-01T07:49:00.000-08:002014-03-01T07:49:02.086-08:00Is this an omen?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This bird came to watch me work the other day.<br /><br />LightChaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324317560173332792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2768179493360797510.post-62422466962206211832011-09-18T07:34:00.000-07:002011-09-18T07:34:25.127-07:00BalloonsI went to see my buddy Chris's hot air balloon recently. It's a very hot air balloon. This is the burner twisting light with heat.<br />
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Here's Chris riding the basket just above the treetops (which is good... flying into the trees is bad).<br />
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This is a view up into the balloon where you can see what a strawberry looks like from the inside.<br />
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And now the deflating strawberry..<br />
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And as I said earlier, sometimes all you need is a good model.<br />
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As I wandered around the pond, these gosling emerged from the reeds<br />
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They weren't alone. They had these two chaperones steering them all around the pond.<br />
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I caught one of the parents pulling up a plant to feed to the goslings.<br />
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There was also a wood duck with a whole lot of duckings, but she didn't cooperate (photographically) by swimming out of the reeds.<br />
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Red winged blackbirds feed on the reeds and I was able to capture this one coming in for a landing.<br />
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I meant the girl, not the alpaca.<br />
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The babies still have short hair and need an extra coat.<br />
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I walked around the pond in search of color and I found this odd weed trying to spread its seeds. <br />
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The pond is usually crowded with frogs, turtles, insects, and the occasional rodent but I only found this mallard. As I circled the pond he always move to the opposite side trying to keep the island between us.<br />
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This stuff has been growing on my apple tree for a few years, but it doesn't seem to bother the tree so I leave it alone.<br />
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I did find some color in a tree. It's leaves are turning red one branch at a time.<br />
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These last two pictures are of a "smoke tree" that blooms with a purple web in the spring. I'll mark my calendar to take pictures then. I'm fascinated by the water on the leaves-- it is the frost just melted.<br />
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We were observed by this chubby guy.<br />
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The trees were losing their leaves and color but these were gaily wrapped against starving rodents.<br />
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I'll check her too, in the snow.<br />
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Then we took in some fountain pools and came across Dean's Leaf. I call it <i>Dean's Leaf</i> because he snatched it up and preserved it in a book-- but not before I took a picture. It looks like Dean rescued it from some Loch Ness Monster leaf.<br />
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We watched the fountains for a bit, and then watched them slower.<br />
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