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.
Posted in Flowers, Places, Trees on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The problem with shooting blooms on trees is that even on a dwarf tree the blooms can be high enough so it’s difficult to shoot down on them without having a tripod that can get your camera higher and for me (5 feet 6 inches) a small step ladder. I have the tripod [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Trees on Oct 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Our oak trees haven’t turned yet but a few oak leaves are falling. When I look at them on the ground they are the most boring brown color but when I hold one up to the light an intricate inner world becomes illuminated. Here you can see the movement of the drying and [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Objects, Trees on Oct 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We have many types of birch trees here: classic white birch, gray birch and a few black birch trees. This leaf looked rather ordinary until I held it up to the light and looked through it, then it’s complexity became readily apparent.
Posted in Flat Macros, Objects, Trees on Oct 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. This leaf came from a large eastern cottonwood tree that fell out of the woods south of our garden and got caught in the power lines. It was large enough so it deflected the lines a good 10 feet and I was sure we’d have a disaster with it falling on a passing [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Trees on Oct 11th, 2007 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Ash trees are having a rough time of it these days, there’s a blight that’s killing some of them off and we’ve lost two big ones to it in the past five years. However, the ones we have left are doing well and this leaf clearly shows the transition of a green leaf [...]
Posted in Objects, Trees on Oct 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I’m not sure what the Almanac says about this winter but I can tell you that our oak trees are dropping a lot of acorns and they’re like bombs, we can hear them clunking on the deck and roof and getting hit in the head with one is a bit of a worry. [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Trees on Oct 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We have a little "grove" of shagbark hickory trees near our house and when looking at the leaf-covered ground in fall it’s easy to pick out hickory leaves: they’re huge, with a serrated edge. There must be a reason the leaves are like this and why maples and oaks are like they are [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Trees on Oct 7th, 2007 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Swamp maples are usually the first to turn and start shedding leaves in the fall and ours are no exception. The good news is the colors are bright and wonderful, the bad news is this signals the beginning of leaf-cleanup season.
Posted in Our Place, Trees on Jan 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The trees in our backyard are shrouded in fog again and now that I’ve realized the photographic possibilities fog offers I’m delighted. Fog both softens a scene and creates a limited color palette which appeals to me in the same way Chinese landscape watercolor washes do. I think I could become a "fog [...]
Posted in Our Place, Trees on Dec 14th, 2006 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The trees in our backyard are shrouded in dense fog this morning which gives this scene a lot more depth and mystery than it has otherwise. It fascinates me that a change in season and a bit of fog can turn our friendly backyard into a scene one might think twice about walking [...]
Posted in Our Place, Trees on Nov 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We have an old volunteer apple tree in our backyard that a friend pruned and saved when we bought our place many years ago. I do my best to keep it happy with pruning and spike fertilizer but no matter what I do it will never produce great eating apples, it’s just not [...]
Posted in Our Place, Trees on Oct 13th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The north window in my home office faces up into a dense forest of maples, oaks, choke cherries, ashes, and a few shagbark hickories. This wonderful aggregate of tree shapes and leaf types makes a great scrim to see early morning light through.
Posted in Our Place, Trees on Oct 8th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The sun was just about to go down behind the hill behind our house and it had the little swamp maple in our backyard lit up like it was on fire. This weekend is what leaf peepers would call “peak” color here in Connecticut. The soft maples like this one are about as [...]
Posted in Landscape, Places, Trees on Sep 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. When the weather starts getting cooler flora of all types feel it and begin their seasonal change getting ready for colder weather. On this south facing rock foundation wall, the ivy is changing from green to a beautiful red while the moss will change from green to a muted brown. The ivy leaves [...]
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