Travel Tuesday is continuing my look back at some of the photos from the 52 week photo project I did in 2018.
This week I’m traveling to a section of the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at sunrise to photograph waves forming icicles.
A week earlier Colpoy’s Bay was frozen but after some thawing the wind had pushed the ice out of the bay. A week after this photo was taken the wind had pushed the ice back into the bay and it was frozen again.
The tripod was frozen to the shoreline when I packed it away.
My contribution to Six Word Saturday.
My Monochrome Monday post this week is a photo of the icicles that I have been photographing on and off for a couple of weeks.
We had a mild spell in the middle of last week and the icicles started thawing and dripping. I caught some of the drops as they were falling.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Tomorrow prompt.
On reading the prompt I decided that whatever the weather I was going to go for a walk around the neighborhood tomorrow.
As it turned out it was sunny but cold with a wind making it feel even colder. I put a short telephoto lens on the camera and went to see what I could find.
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Support.
As is frequently the case with me I took a sideways look at the prompt. Because the first thing that came to mind on reading the prompt was camera tripods.
I am possibly something of a rarity these days in that I still frequently use a tripod or other form of camera support.
Using my home made ground pod allows me to support a telephoto lens while getting down to eye level with birds and mammals.
Portrait of an Eastern Chipmunk taken using the ground pod.
A tripod set up on the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at sunrise photographing waves forming icicles. Two of the tripod legs were frozen to the pebbles by the time I packed up the equipment.
Motion blurred wave forming icicles on the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at sunrise.
After around 48 hours of snow over the Christmas holiday it warmed up and rained for a few hours before the temperature dropped again. As a result there was some large icicles forming in places when I went for a walk yesterday.
This is my contribution to Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #57 Photo Challenge. With four drops of water, ice and snow on conifers in the background I’m well covered on water for challenge.
