Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Trees on Feb 6th, 2012 5 Comments »
Salisbury, Connecticut. We always look forward to this beautiful stand of beech trees on the Appalachian Trail between Salisbury and Lion’s Head on the way to Bear Mountain.
Posted in Hiking, Places, Trees on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
On Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts. Hiking down the Haley Farm Trail on the west side of Mt. Greylock we came across a dead black birch with huge mushrooms on it. Hiked out to the tree and shot straight up hoping to catch the mushrooms but instead got an interesting shot of the creepy decaying tree and [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot S100, Places, Trees on Jan 21st, 2012 4 Comments »
Huntington Library Gardens, Pasadena, California. Went on an outing with my mother today. Decided to use S100 to shoot trees from below since this place has an amazing variety of spectacular and rare trees. I’m quite pleased with the way this small camera worked; I got a nice variety of decent images.
Posted in Photographers, Trees on Jan 18th, 2012 No Comments »
Grant Simon Rogers knows how to shoot trees from below. Wow. [via Colossal]
Posted in Adventure, Canon PowerShot S95, Hiking, Landscape, Trees on Dec 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Mt. Everett Reservation, Massachusetts. We hiked up Everett and then around Guilder Pond and I caught Dave out on a cliff shooting an island in the pond. Everett isn’t a hard hike although it’s the second highest point in Massachusetts. Guilder Pond is a jewell that makes the entire hike worthwhile. In July the mountain [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot S100, New York, Trees on Nov 28th, 2011 2 Comments »
New York City. Standing in Bryant Park behind the 5th Avenue branch of the New York Public Library shooting south east through the sycamores at the wall of buildings on the other side of the street. Standing in Bryant Park shooting up at the canopy of sycamore tree branches.
Posted in Birds, Canon PowerShot S95, Trees on Oct 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Macedonia Brook State Park, Kent, Connecticut. Dave and I were hiking the other day and I spotted some unusual bark on a tree. On closer inspection the bark was riddled with woodpecker holes up and down the entire tree. The bird is a yellow-bellied sapsucker and it really likes this tree. As you’ll see in [...]
Posted in Adventure, Canon Powershot S90, Flowers, Hiking, Ice, Trees on Mar 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Bear Mountain, Connecticut. Hiking around the back side of Bear Mountain we encountered more mountain laurels coated with ice. The hike was both wonderful and terrible: under two feet of snow was running water from rain and melt off and every now and than we’d break through the crust and get soaked in the “stream” [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Ice, Places, Trees on Mar 4th, 2011 8 Comments »
Bear Mountain, Connecticut. We hiked up Under-mountain trail onto the Appalachian Trail and up onto Bear Mountain the other day and the last 500 feet of elevation gain saw everything coated with ice. It was a beautiful scene and we stood around photographing so long our hands got cold and we had to get moving [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Patterns, Photographers, Trees on Feb 10th, 2011 No Comments »
On the Grid Dutch photographer Gerco de Ruijter recently got in touch with an extraordinary series of aerial photographs called Baumschule—some of which, he explains, were taken using a camera mounted on a fishing rod. The series features “32 photographs of tree nurseries and grid forests in the Netherlands.” Fantastic stuff. Would be fun to [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places, Trees on Dec 13th, 2010 No Comments »
My flickr contact Jun has produced a wonderful image of trees and sky with holiday lights in Japan. Fantastic.
Posted in Art and Design, Photographers, Places, Trees on Sep 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Tom Zetterstrom’s Portraits of Trees I just saw Tom’s work in a group show at The Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. His prints are small and look almost like embossments. They’re nicely framed and hung and worth seeing if you’re in the area.
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Trees on Jul 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. Walking along the Appalachian Trail north of Kent there is a grove of these huge red pines. We’ve done this hike many times and passed by these trees but today we stopped. I’m glad we did, they’re impressive.
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Places, Trees on Jun 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. Walking north from Kent on the AT along the Housatonic River brings you by a fantastic array of big trees: sycamore, oak, pine, hemlock, ash and locust. I’m not sure why this particular group of trees has gotten as large as they have but for a mile they’re huge. The canopy on this [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, Places, Trees on Nov 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
My long time flickr contact rosemary* remains the queen of bokeh with this shot of ornamental maple leaves with a great blurred background. Notice she’s using a Canon 5D with a Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 lens.
Posted in Adventure, Photographers, Trees on Sep 29th, 2009 1 Comment »
Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever Check out the slide show with 9 slides at the bottom. Zoom it out full screen. Spectacular images.
Posted in Macro, Objects, Slide Show, Trees on Sep 19th, 2009 12 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
Posted in Landscape, Places, Trees on Sep 18th, 2009 No Comments »
New England Foliage Map Not sure how I feel about this map as it brings “leaf peepers” to our neighborhood in droves. Still, useful for photographers who want to capture various kinds of color.
Posted in Art and Design, Places, Trees on Aug 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Gardens created for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics These are circulating via mail. Better to visit them on the web. Many instances of them, not sure which are the original but this one’s the best presentation. Click images for larger versions. [via Martha Winkel]
Posted in Flowers, Trees on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I spent an hour photographing beautiful, perfect dogwood blooms and then I ran across this old one going by. Some might say that young, beautiful flowers are the thing, but give me old flowers going by, they have character and are much more interesting to photograph.
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