Posts in Category: autumn
Yellowstone! From Blacktail Plateau
The grandeur of Yellowstone National Park. Sony a5100 with Sony 10-18 f4 at 10mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Landscape scene mode. Processed in Photomator.
Yellowstone! Aspen
A small grove of Aspen in color, up the road from the Upper Terrace of Mammoth Hot Springs. Sony a5100 with Sony E 10-18 f4 at 21mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Landscape scene mode. Processed in Photomator.
Tetons National Park! The vista
Grand Tetons with cottonwoods along the river in the foreground. Sony a5100 with Sony E 10-18 f4 zoom at 27mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Landscape scene mode. Processed in Photomator.
Yellowstone! (near) Aspen color
On the way up the Beartooth Highway beyond the Eastern Gate to Yellowstone. Aspen in full blaze. Sony a6700 with Tamron 50-400 Di iii VC zoom at 75mm equivalent. Program mode. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! lighting up
The Virginia Creeper is lighting up already along the Bridle Path in Kennebunk. This study in texture and light says it all. Sony a5100 with Sony E 10-18 f4 zoom at 15mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Landscape Scene Mode. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! First of fall
There is an Oak sapling along at the edge of the marsh along the Kennebunk Bridle Path that is always one of the first of the trees to turn. It must be because it has its feet in the water. I am really enjoying the macro abilities of the Tamron 50-400 Di iii VC zoom. This is at 75mm equivalent with the Sony a6700 and my macro modifications to Program mode, program shifted to f18 at 1/8 second for maximum depth of field…and hand held. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! Blue Dasher Art
Blue Dasher Dragonfly: Roger’s Pond Park, Kennebunk, Maine, September 2024 — One of our most common dragonflies in Southern Maine, but still worth a close look, especially when artfully posed on the September grass head. Sony a6700 with the Tamron 50-400 Di iii VC zoom at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my bird and wildlife modifications. Insect recognition auto focus. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! Flood tide on the Mousam marsh
Mousam River marsh from the Kennebunk Bridle Path in Kennebunk Maine. Not quite high tide. I got out before the path flooded. 🙂 Sony a5100 with the Sony E 10-18 f4 zoom at 15mm equivalent. Superior Auto with Landscape Scene Mode. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! September marsh Egret
Great Egret: York County Maine, USA, September 2024 — I continue to be amazed and delighted by the number of Egrets and Herons we have this year in the marshes and on the sandbars at the mouths of our Southern Maine rivers. This year you find mixed feeding flocks, generally with a few Great Blue Herons, and this month with Greater Yellowlegs, scattered in marsh pools…one day here, another day there, all along the river at high tide. This egret was part of such a flock and flew in, while I was standing on the path, to the small, kiddy-pool sized pool closest to me, perhaps 30 feet away, and proceeded to hunt the grasses and water just at the edge. Add the increasingly colorful September marsh grasses and the light of the early September sun, and it makes for a rare Maine portrait of a Great Egret. Sony a6700 with the Tamron 50-400 Di iii VC zoom at 523mm equivalent. Program mode with my bird and wildlife modifications. Animal/bird recognition and Highlight metering. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! Brush stroked marsh
As the angle of the sun lowers in September, I have always liked the range of textures and forms that marsh grass takes, as though a painter has been at work on the canvas. Sony a6700 with the Tamron 50-400 Di iii VC zoom at 81mm equivalent. Program mode (with my bird and wildlife modifications just because that was what the camera was set to). Processed in Photomator.