Yesterday, while “out and about”, I found another barn with interesting siding. Of course, I stopped and made a few photographs!
The last photo in this series is of a scene I pass by quite often. Yesterday, I finally stopped and made the photo that has been rattling around in my brain for some time.
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Wednesday dawned partly sunny and windy. I had errands to run so I headed out towards Peterborough before breakfast. After a breakfast sandwich at the local bagel emporium, I spent a bit of time, with camera in hand, wandering downtown.
Here are the “keepers”.
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Yesterday afternoon, I had an hour to kill in downtown Brattelboro, VT. I spent the hour roaming the back alleys along Main Street photographing the public art.
Here is the result:
Brattleboro, Vermont
Feels like a big city
When one lives in a town of 2600 souls
Graffiti both edgy and tender
Edgy preponderate
Feels right
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Last Tuesday dawned cold and clear. However, by mid-afternoon the temperature was near 40oF and there was a thin, high overcast to soften the light.
Thus, camera in hand, I headed out for a walk around the edge of the lake. Because the sky was uninteresting, I concentrated on the intimate landscape.
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About two weeks ago, I made my first batch of Autumnal Abstracts for the 2015 season.
Since then, I have ventured out on a few more excursions in search of the ‘proper’ scenes from which to extract more abstractions.
All but the last photograph made using a long exposure (in the range of 6-12 seconds) and deliberate movement of the camera. The only ‘photoshopping’ done to these photos is the processing typically applied to raw files from the camera (i.e. levels adjustment, contrast, etc.).
Many of these are much more abstract than the previous photographs in this series, in that they do not really have any trace of their origin remaining. I would be interested in hearing folks reaction to these photographs.
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All of a sudden it is seemingly winter!
The foliage is definitely past peak and Saturday night we got about an inch of snow. Sunday dawned cold (the high for the day was 39 oF) and sunny. The sun made quick work of most of the snow. By the time we (Joan, her friend Sally, and I) headed out to hike the Bailey Brook loop in the early afternoon it was mostly gone.
However, during the couple of hours we were out, the clouds moved in and we experienced three or four periods of snow showers and flurries. The combination of colorful leaves on the ground and traces of fresh snow made for some interesting photography.
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Last week, I took drives on three different days in search of autumn foliage to photograph. Finding the ideal combination of foliage and light (both quality and direction are important) is not trivial.
Last Wednesday (the 7th) the foliage in our ‘neighborhood’ was good, but not yet peak. Thus, I decided to head north. I meandered as far as Rumney, NH before turning around in the late afternoon. The weather was not completely cooperative but I made a few nice photos before the clouds moved in.
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Friday (the 9th) dawned foggy and rainy. I took the camera with me and after finishing my errands, I wandered the back roads on the way home looking for interesting photographs.
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Saturday (the 10th), I took an indirect route (via South Newbury, Bradford and Washington) home after I finished photographing the meeting house in South Sutton.
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It has been about two weeks since I last posted here. I have been busy… photographing! Thus this should be the first in a series of posts in rapid succession that will ‘catch me up’.
A week ago*, I took a late afternoon walk on the un-maintained section of Brimstone Corner Road. Newly fallen leaves were just beginning to accumulate on the ground and I was inspired to add to my collection of Autumnal Abstracts that I began about this time last year. (Also included are a couple of other less abstract photos made in the same time frame. Thus the ‘et al.’.)
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* Tues. 6 Oct to be exact.
Last Friday afternoon we boarded the M/V Thomas Leighton and headed to Star Island for a birding weekend organized by Eric Masterson. This trip is timed to be able to see southward migrating birds, especially warblers*. We arrived back on the mainland about 3:30 PM on Sunday.
Saturday dawned blustery and although there were birds present, they were pretty much hunkered down inside the brush and therefore impossible to photograph. The wind died down on Saturday evening and Sunday was much calmer and the photography more productive.
I discovered that (compared to the spring time) photography was much more difficult since most of the plants which were bare in the spring were still more-or-less fully leafed out. Thus getting clear views of small birds was difficult.
The most common warbler we saw, by far, was the yellow-rumped. In addition we observed two rarities for New Hampshire… a lark sparrow and a lazuli bunting; both are western birds. The bunting is the first sighting of this species in NH (if it is accepted by the Rare Bird Committee).
Anyway, without further excuses or ado, here are the photos:
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Another difference between our spring trip and this one, was the number of people. The spring trip occurred before the official opening of the season so the only people on the island were the maintenance staff and a couple of dozen birders. This past weekend us birders shared the island with at least three other groups… the Star Island board of directors, sailors participating in the Gosport Regatta and a group of kite fliers.
I took time away from birding on Saturday afternoon to photograph the sailboats as they neared Star Island (both the windward mark and the finish line were close by).
Here are the sailing photos:
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The sunset on Friday night was spectacular. Here are a few photos of that and a mishmash of other subjects:
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* We participated in a similar trip, timed for the spring migration, in May of 2014; see this post and this one for the details.
Yesterday found Joan and I in our kayaks on the Connecticut River in Hinsdale, NH. Joan was hunting rare plants and I photographs.
The weather was partly sunny and as long as the sun covered, not too hot. The thermometer in the car read 92 oF as we headed home in the mid-afternoon.
The abstracts are a collaboration.
For the first four photographs, a long gone graffiti artist applied paint to a concrete bridge abutment. Weather and time did their job. I framed and “captured” the final work.
My collaborator in the final work was mother nature. She provided an iron oxide stain on a rock just at the waters edge.
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Joan’s survey site was near a number of large beds of cattails along the riverbank, I had an enjoyable time trying to find interesting photographs where plant emerges from water. (Being low to the water in a kayak enforces a certain viewpoint.)
I also looked for photographs along other parts of the riverbank, but was only satisfied with one.
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