Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – David M's photoblog

CFFC: Trees.

14/08/2019 David M2 Comments

This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trees.

I had the post written in my head until I started selecting photos. I found a couple of shots I wanted to use but they didn’t fit into the post I was planning so I abandoned my original plan.

Here’s four shots of trees all taken within a quarter mile of our yard when out for a walk with the camera. Sometimes I was experimenting with deliberate camera movement during exposure and on one occasion I was testing a new lens.

Motion blurred trees. Taken when I was experimenting with deliberate camera movement during exposure.

CFFC: Trees.

Tree trunks taken on the first outing with my 85mm lens.

CFFC: Trees.

Motion blurred tree trunks. Another shot taken when I was experimenting with deliberate camera movement during exposure.

CFFC: Trees.

A confusion of tree trunks. Taken with a telephoto lens to isolate the trunks and compress the perspective.

CFFC: Trees.

CFFC: Gardens.

08/08/2019 David M2 Comments

This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Gardens.

A selection of nature subjects taken in a variety of gardens over the years.

A Redwing eating a Holly berry photographed in a Cheshire, England garden in the mid 1980s.

A Redwing in a Holly tree.

Orange Day-Lily photographed in an Ontario, Canada garden a couple of years ago.

Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Bloom.

An Eastern Chipmunk photographed in a garden in Ontario, Canada a decade or so ago.

An Eastern Chipmunk posing for a photo.

Borage flower buds photographed in Cheshire, England garden in the mid 1990s.

Borage plant.

A leucistic juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker photographed in a Cheshire, England garden in the late 1980s.

Leucistic Woodpecker on a suet feeder.

A Coneflower photographed in an Ontario, Canada garden a year or two ago.

Echinacea or Coneflower.

CFFC: Animals.

02/08/2019 David M14 Comments

This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Animals.

After some thought I decided to go with a selection of animals covering a range of sizes, locations and decades.

A wet Racoon that wandered into the yard last summer.

Spiky wet Racoon.

A Red Deer stag with his harem at Lyme Park, Cheshire, England in the 1990s.

Red Deer stag and it's harem.

A Red Fox in a hay meadow in Cheshire, England in the 1990s.

Hunting Red Fox.

A Coyote watching the photographer. Taken in Saskatchewan, Canada in the 1990s.

A Coyote watches the photographer.

A young European Rabbit photographed at Brown Moss, Shropshire, England in the 1980s.

Rabbit.

CFFC: Water.

24/07/2019 David M10 Comments

This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water.

Living close to Lake Huron and Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada and having lived close to the Quill Lakes and Last Mountain Lake in Saskatchewan in the late 1990s I have rather a lot of photos featuring water to pick from.

So I had a ponder about the challenge and thought about the various states of water. So here is water in various states at different times of the year. All the shots are of Colpoy’s Bay, a bay on the much larger Georgian Bay and taken around sunrise.

Snow covering the ice on Colpoy’s Bay at sunrise.

A frozen Colpoy's Bay at sunrise.