At the pond

All of spring’s greenery looks incredibly bright processed as IR. Taken 14 May 2017.

Me and my shadow

While pausing for a moment on a weekend walkabout, a daredevil butterfly began flying tight circles around me at knee level. Several mad minutes passed as I tried to follow his flight round and round and round. Never could catch the little booger, but settled for his shadow.

Silent Sunday

Iced

An after market telephoto lens with really terrible optics can still create intriguing images with its distortion. In these images, rain falling through 29-degree air is coating branches and pine needles with ice.

The stark beauty of a foggy winter’s day

For most of the last week, winter has cast a foggy, rainy spell over our part of the Arkansas Ouachitas. This is how nature makes her own monochromes.

The fog-shrouded silhouettes of pines, oaks and hickories describe the angle of descent to the south valley.

 

Bared of its leaves, except for a few tatters, this blackjack oak looks almost prickly.

Weekly photo challenge: Street life

If there was ever a place that breathed street life, it’s New Orleans. When the sun goes down, the streets come alive. There are street corner soloists and ensembles and the people who were set up with typewriters and desks offering to pound out instant short stories and erotica for a fistful of dollars. That’s New Orleans for you.

In Frenchman’s Street — Impromptu street corner concert.

A few steps from the street, music, dance, color in Cafe Negril.

Other views of street life:

• From Savannah, one of our favorite cities: http://mhdriver.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/weekly-photo-challenge-street-life/
• A tour of California: http://myincatrailchallenge.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/weekly-photo-challenge-street-life/
• Crossings: http://mostlymonochrome.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/street-crossing/
• From Sydney: http://clickaphotoblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/weekly-photo-challenge-street-life/
• Summer street: http://sph3re.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/weekly-photo-challenge-street-life/

And see the rest here: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/street-life/

Texture study

Focusing on details lost in other seasons.

The markings on this rock look like a petroglyph of a squid or jellyfish.

A pine’s armored seed carrier.

Gnarly bark. (Tree unknown.)

Cherry bark wrapped in shadow strands.

Tangle of shadows.

Weekly photo challenge: From lines to patterns

Seed parachutes made of convergent curves ready to hitch a ride on the breeze.

Getting a line on this weeks’ challenge: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/lines-patterns/ and some nice takes on this week’s challenge:

• From sea to sand – http://jejak-bocahilang.com/2013/09/22/weekly-photo-challenge-from-lines-to-patterns/
• The beauty of a rusty trunk – http://getsetandgo.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/weekly-photo-challenge-from-lines-to-patterns/
• Train station – http://naomibaltuck.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/1834/
• Lines in stone, steel, wood and concrete – http://catbirdinamerica.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/weekly-photo-challenge-from-lines-to-patterns/
• Heinz Field – http://francineinretirement.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/weekly-photo-challenge-from-lines-to-patterns/
• Cathedrals to contrails – http://mikehardisty.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/lines-and-patterns/
• Prayerful patterns – http://mithriluna.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/prayerful-patterns/

Heffalump trunk

Ferns fronds are elegant, whether simply lobed or carved with more complexity. And they present themselves to the world in such a beautiful way, slowly unfurling into the filtered light of the forest floor.

DOWN AND UP  — This frond was reaching downward into a channel carved by runoff into the mountainside. It seemed to me like an elephant’s trunk — you almost want to hand it a peanut.

UPRIGHT — Captured last week, this curled frond reminded me of nautilids.

Morning

Sun filters through fog and branches outside the office window this morning.