A 52 week photo project interspersed with photos from the past 40 years.
This week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge is Living in Your Best Light.
Coming home through a thunderstorm one afternoon last autumn there was a double rainbow and some nice light on the fields of the side road we live on. I drove down the road in heavy rain hoping it would ease off enough to get some shots of the rainbows. It eased off enough for me to stop the car and grab some shots at the barn. I dried the camera off with a towel when I got home.
So some nice light where we live.
This week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge is Natural Patterns.
First, some Cotoneaster berries. They sort of remind me of a fish skeleton.
Next, some Bracken fronds. Another reminder of a fish skeleton maybe.
And finally, hoarfrost rimmed Privet leaves.
This week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge prompt is ‘Guess what this is?’
The prompt took me back to the 1980s. In those days BBC Wildlife magazine had a monthly competition for its readers. It was a photo of a mystery species, the first reader to correctly identify the subject won a years subscription to the magazine.
The photo below was used one month, nobody correctly identified the subject.
Anyone interested what the subject is, scroll down under the photo.
The photo shows clumps of hair on the caterpillar of a Ruby Tiger Moth.
This week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge is Time.
A European Robin at bath time.
This week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge is Notions of Shadows and of Light.
I thought it was a very good prompt and considered a few of my photos. In the end there was one of my shots that became the obvious pick for me.
The photo was taken with telephoto. I shot different framings with a 300mm, a 425mm telephoto (the 300mm plus a 1.4x teleconverter) and a 600mm. Actually the 600mm version was taken with the 300mm plus a 2x teleconverter. The wind was so strong on top of the hill the photo was taken from that my 600mm was being shaken to much for an effective shot despite using a substantial tripod.
This is the 300mm version.
This week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge is A Hint of Spring.
I thought I would use one photo from the UK and one from Canada.
In Cheshire, England a pair of Great Crested Grebe performing their courtship display by waving weed at each other.
In Ontario, Canada a male Common Merganser swims amongst ice on a thawing Lake Huron.
This week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge is Simply Surrealistic.
Rather than fire up Photoshop I thought of this image. Created in the darkroom five or six years before anyone had heard of Photoshop. Commissioned for the cover of a book on Influenza research it’s a heavily manipulated photo of a model of an Influenza virus.
