This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: On a Small Scale prompt.
On Sunday morning I went for a walk around the neighborhood with a macro lens on the camera. I quickly found myself concentrating on details of the various tree trunks on the route I picked.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: My green world prompt.
Having returned to winter like weather for the past couple of weeks there’s not a lot of signs of spring in this part of Ontario. So here’s some recent greens but not necessarily signs of spring.
As a side note, the first 3 photos were taken on two walks testing a copy of the TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4 lens. Initial impressions are good but I need more time than two short walks to get a feeling for a lens.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: At the end of the day prompt.
I quickly ended up with a shortlist of dozens of photos. So I decided to go with the most recent and a small selection of favourites from previous decades.
Intentional camera movement of trees at the end of the day last Saturday evening.
A giant sun pillar behind Chantry Island on Lake Huron at Southampton, Ontario. At the end of the day in winter.
A winter gull roost on Hurleston Reservoir near Nantwich in southern Cheshire at the end of the day.
Storm clouds and light beams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland at the end of the day.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: In the big wide open spaces prompt.
I was considering a couple of approaches to the prompt before realising that there was one obvious choice, Saskatchewan, Canada.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: New life emerging prompt.
There’s very little sign of spring around this part of Ontario at the moment, we got snow last Thursday.
So I decided to go with a small selection of of bird species that have started appearing on spring migration.
A Pine Siskin in spring. They stopped off in autumn on their way south and again on their way north in spring.
A male American Goldfinch. We had a couple of American Goldfinch on and off over winter but suddenly the male is getting his bright yellow breeding plumage.
A Chipping Sparrow. The first of the New World Sparrows to arrive this year. The first species is usually the Song Sparrow but I still haven’t had one this spring.
A Dark-eyed Junco. The first Juncos arrived a week or so ago and there was still at least six here at the weekend.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art for art’s sake prompt.
I thought about some of the abstract images I had made in the winter. As a result I decided to make the post about some of the photos featuring snow
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: As the evenings start to lengthen prompt.
I quickly decided to go back to pre Covid-19 times when I could get out and about more. Then I remembered the spring of 2008. The last spring I was living in Southampton, Ontario and a year when there was some interesting snow and ice formations on Lake Huron.
Late winter and this section of Lake Huron is frozen and partly snow covered. Chantry Island and its lighthouse is on the horizon.
Chantry Island and its lighthouse at sunset a day or two after the spring equinox. Lake Huron in the foreground has partially thawed and refrozen.
A week into spring and there’s some interesting ice formations and patches of open water on Lake Huron at dusk.
Two weeks into spring and the only ice left is small pieces in the shallows along the shoreline. Chantry Island on the horizon at sunset.
