Photographs by Frank

31 March 2011

Looking Down (on) the Road

Filed under: Early Spring,The "New" Yard & Environs — Frank @ 8:37 PM

One of the camera clubs I belong to does a “monthly challenge”, where a topic is announced and folks shoot images during the month to “match” the topic. The current challenge is “looking down”. I don’t often participate in these challenges, preferring instead to go my own way.

However, a couple of weekends ago, I headed out for a stroll down “our” road in NH and decided that there is a  lot of interesting subject matter on a dirt road during mud in NH.

Mud… that is the season in northern New England that comes between winter and “black fly”. Mud occurs about the same  time that the maple sap is running.  And of course, by the time “black fly” is over summer arrives… we have no spring to speak of in northern New England!

So, here are the “keepers” from my stroll. Most are along the lines of “looking down” with a few others thrown in at the end. The first image (which is actually the last one I took during the outing) is the one I submitted… just for fun!

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21 March 2011

Spring Break

Filed under: Early Spring,The "New" Yard & Environs — Tags: , , — Frank @ 12:01 PM

Early March… Spring Break time for those of us, students and faculty alike, in higher education.

Many head south, not me… I spent most of the week in NH. However, I started the week photographically with a Sunday afternoon trip to Sachuest NWR to look for harlequin ducks. None were to be found.

Most of the rest of the week in NH was not particularly good for photography… the light was very flat gray and dreary for three days. Things began  to look up photographically-speaking on Thursday and Friday when the fog set in! Nothing like fog to set a mood, so I headed out each afternoon.

Here are a dozen from the week:

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Comments appreciated, as always.


 

5 March 2011

Snowy February

Filed under: The "New" Yard & Environs,Winter — Tags: — Frank @ 10:11 AM

Well, I realize that it has been more than a month since I added an entry here. The winter is generally a slow time for me photographically, but I do continue to shoot, so there is really no excuse!

February continued the snowy winter we have been having both in NH and in Mass… we got around a foot of snow (in NH; in Mass. it was mostly rain) on the last weekend of the month.

Still, Joan and I have been getting out at least once a weekend, between shoveling events,  for a snowshoe hike around the NH house. Most of the time, I remember to take the camera!

So here are a half a dozen photos from the last couple of weeks:

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Comments appreciated as always.


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