Photographs by Frank

29 October 2011

October Snow

Filed under: Landscapes,Monadnock Region,Winter — Frank @ 9:17 PM

A few inches of snow fell  Thursday (27 October) night; on Friday afternoon, I took a walk “up” the road with my camera just to see what there was to see. I thought that the remnants of snow might add interest to late fall foliage (the yellows of beech and oak on the way to brown) along the road.

As I wandered down the road, I noticed the reflections of sky and foliage in the water puddled in the ruts on the road.

Here are the photos:

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Update on October snow… as I write this at about 9 PM on Saturday evening, it has been snowing steadily since about 3 PM and I just measured 11 inches of snow on our front steps!!! The forecast is for steady snow all night… boy am I glad we have a snow blower for this winter!

23 October 2011

Late Foliage

Filed under: Autumn,Landscapes,Monadnock Region — Frank @ 12:00 PM

Friday was one of those days when the weather changed every fifteen minutes. The cloud cover kept going from “heavy and gray” to “almost none” to “white and fluffy” and back again. Unpredictably interesting skies; perfect weather for landscape photography!

I headed out in the late afternoon with two spots in mind… a farm field on the Contoocook River (Thanks Diane!) and the Forest Society’s “High Five” (aka “Sky Farm”) property in Deering. On the way out, I also stopped near the bridge at Gregg Lake as well. The skies and light held up through the farm but by the time I got to Sky Farm a heavy overcast had set in and there were no worthwhile photos to be had. Such is the life of a landscape photographer… next time!

Here are the photos:

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Panoramas

Filed under: Autumn,Landscapes,Monadnock Region — Frank @ 12:00 PM

One of the things I like to experiment with when in “landscape mode” are multi-exposure panoramas. That is, using the computer to stitch together multiple (overlapping) frames into one long, high resolution image. I don’t doing anything fancy. Usually, I just switch to manual exposure (so that things don’t change on me unexpectedly) and shoot away; no special “nodal point” tripod head for me.

The “problem” with panoramas is what to do with them once you have them made… they are very long and thin. In a word they are unwieldy! I don’t have the proper equipment to print them with (i.e. a printer that takes a roll of paper). Even if I did get them printed, they are a pain in the “you know what” to mat, frame and hang on the wall. So usually they just languish on my hard disk.

Thus, I have decided to see how they work out displayed here. Please stretch your browser window as far as it will go; these images are roughly a thousand pixels wide. (Click on each image to see the “full” version.)

Swamp Edge (22 Sept 2011; six frames; this would make an 11″ x 87″ print)

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The North End of Gregg Lake (21 Oct 2011; three frames; 11.5″ x 30″ printed)

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Looking Northwest from Diane’s Field (21 Oct 2011; five frames; 10.75″ x 67″ printed)

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