Posts in Category: landscape
cones
Drying conifer cones: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, August 2025 — I am taking a course in Mindfulness and Photography, which it turns out is pretty much superficial mindfulness techniques with little or no direct connection to photography…but hay, they tried. The one thing it has reminded me to do is to look more attentively for the images that are there waiting for me to see them. I am good at doing that with birds and wildlife…but I forget sometimes to look down at the ground, or out at the landscape. I have a vague feeling that images like this one are just slightly pretentious…like making a sows ear into a silk purse. Still, I like the image. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 102mm equivalent. My macro mods. F13 for depth of field. Processed in Photomator.
Sky says it all…
Kennebunk, Maine, USA — sometimes the sky says it all. Sony a5100. Sony 10-18 f4 wide angle zoom. Superior Auto selecting Landscape Mode. Processed in Photomator.
Wild Iris
Blue Flag Iris: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, June 2025 — There is a little pond formed where the road crosses one of the meandering streams that runs down through the marshes behind the dunes to the sea, where a clump of wild iris has been blooming every June for as long as I can remember. I photograph it every year. Sony a5100. Sony 10-18 f4 at 15mm equivalent. Intelligent Auto with Landscape Mode. Processed in Photomator.
Rapid run
Batson River, Emmon’s Preserve, Kennebunkport, Maine, April 2025 — Relatively high water on the Batson River (more of a brook really) in Emmon’s Preserve (Kennebunkport Land Trust). Still no leaves on the trees so this is just about as bright as this stretch of water gets. Sony a5100 with Sony 10-18 f4 at 15mm equivalent. Shutter Preferred at 1/40th. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! more snow
Actually this is still the snow from Sunday morning, and of course by now the wind has knocked most of it off the trees and brush, but it is still there. It has not been above freezing since. 🙂 Sony a5100 in Superior Auto, with Landscape mode selected. Sony 10-18 f4 @ 15mm equivalent. Processed in Photomator and framed in LikeAFrame.
Maine! Off East Point in January
East Point Audubon Sanctuary, Biddeford Pool, Maine, USA. Looking for non-existent Snowy Owls and Purple Sandpipers, but the view is grand! Sony a5100 with Sony 10-18 f4 wide zoom at 15mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Landscape Mode. Processed in Photomator.
Yellowstone! Pilot and Index Peaks in Autumn
Not quite in Yellowstone National Park, but on the boarder in Montana, Pilot and Index Peaks dominate the skyline from the east, coming down off the Beartooth Highway into Cook City. The fall foliage in the foreground marks the season. Sony a6700 with Tamron 50-400Di3 at 117mm equivalent. Program mode. Processed in Photomator.
Beartooth Highway: Above Timberline
The strange alpine landscape of the Beartooth Mountains just east of Yellowstone National Park, above timberline. Lots of lakes in the deep valleys. Sony a5100 with E10-18 f4 at 15mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Landscape scene mode selection. Processed in Photomator.
Yellowstone! From Blacktail
We made one more run up over Blacktail Plateau, past where the carcass was earlier in the morning, just to see what was happening. The scenery was gorgeous…the light just coming across the plateau almost horizontal, and picking out the mountains to the north. Sony a5100 with E10-18 f4 @ 15mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Landscape scene select. Processed in Photomator.
Yellowstone! View from another planet
Upper Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, October 2024 — Mammoth Hot Springs really is so unique that you are not sure you are still on earth. Sony a5100 with E 10-18 f4 at 15mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Landscape Scene Mode. Processed in Photomator.