trunks – David M's photoblog

Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Shadows.

12/07/2019 David M9 Comments

This is my contribution to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Shadows.

I decided to go with two images of shadows being cast by trees that are also very different.

Trees and their shadows, Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England. A film shot from about 25 years ago. Taken with a long telephoto to isolate the trees and shadows as much as possible.

Monochrome trees and shadows.

A barcode on the snow. A low winter sun casting long shadows of tree trunks onto snow on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada taken about 18 months ago. This was almost a monochrome image and hardly changed when doing the monochrome conversion.

Tree trunk shadows on snow.

CFFC: 5+ Items.

10/07/2019 David M8 Comments

This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: 5+ Items.

As the challenge is 5+ I decided to go with a selection of six photos.

5+ young Eurasian Blue Tits.

Almost ready to leave the nestbox.

5+ tree trunks.

Tree trunks in the autumn.

5+ Common Merganser ducklings.

Ducks in a row.

5+ Borage seeds.

Borage plant seeds.

5+ red berries.

A group of red berries.

5+ American White Pelicans.

Feeding party of American White Pelicans.

Friendly Friday: Between the Lines.

06/07/201906/07/2019 David M7 Comments

This is my contribution to the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Between the Lines.

Between the Lines of tree trunks in the autumn.

Autumn tree trunks.

Between the Lines of my fingerprint in Sodium Thiosulfate crystals.

A fingerprint in sodium thiosulfate.

Between the Lines of bark on a tree trunk.

Monochrome tree bark.

Between the Lines of a Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel.

Ground Squirrel in the summer.

Between the Lines of quartz in a boulder.

Monochrome boulder with lines of quartz.

Between the Lines of ice on Lake Huron at dusk in the spring.

Blue ice, orange water.

CFFC: 2 Items or the Number Two.

19/06/2019 David M4 Comments

This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: 2 Items or the Number Two.

Having rather a long list of photos to pick from I decided to limit myself to eight photos.

Two tree trunks in the snow on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.

two tree trunks in snow

Two American Herring Gulls taking a shower on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.

Showering Herring Gulls.

Two Silver-studded Blue Butterflies mating, Shropshire, England.

Silver-studded Blue Butterflies mating.

Two Eurasian Blue Tit, the male has just fed the female during incubation, Cheshire, England.

Feeding during incubation.

Two Banded Demoselles, the female is egg laying with the male in the background, Cheshire, England.

Banded Demoselles.

Two American Avocets feeding on a slough in Saskatchewan, Canada.

A pair of American Avocets.

Two Common Redpolls on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.

Common Redpolls watching something behind me.

Two Yellow Lady’s Slipper Orchids on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.

Yellow Lady's Slipper.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Trail.

18/06/2019 David M7 Comments

This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Trail.

As my walks around the neighborhood involve a selection of trails I thought I would go with a selection of photos taken when walking them rather than photos of the actual trails.

Some Dandelion clocks taken on a walk after the challenge was posted.