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If the rain comes...
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If the rain comes... On Monday it was warm here and it rained on and off, sometimes hard and sometimes in a drizzle. Since our dry spell ended the preserve has been transformed. It's now a riot of lush new green punctuated by swatches of white flowering trees, brand new red and pink shoots, lime green and yellow emerging leaves. There are patches of flowers everywhere- blue, purple, yellow and pristine white. It's so much to take in all at once. Everywhere I looked there was something new and delicate to see and while we hiked in the wet I lagged behind, lingering and taking pictures. We had the place to ourselves. Not too many people want to hike in a pouring rain, and it was coming down hard and steady when we set out. It's hard to keep the camera dry in a rain like that. I have to hold it under my raincoat and dry the lens constantly. That means turning it on and off a lot- the autofocus gets confused when the lens is covered and it either refuses to focus at all or I get error messages and have to reset it by turning it off. I took a lot of shots of raindrops on the tips of leaves and twigs, hoping for that one special picture that would be a mirror of the forest in micro. One photo turned out, and it was worth all the lollygagging and fussing with focus and lens drying. My eyes aren't what they used to be. After fifty years of twenty fifteen vision I had to get reading glasses so I don't see closeup detail as sharply as I once did. For another ten years I could till shoot a fly off a woodchuck's ass at fifty yards but now that's get a bit risky for the woodchuck- my long distance sight is flagging a little too. So when I try for detailed closeups all I can do is point and guess at what will work and hope for the best. The screen on my camera is of course so small that I don't really know what I've got til I get home and<b> upload </font></b>the photos to my computer. And that's when I got excited about that one drop of water in just that one photo. It worked! One photo out of dozens, but I got it! Every other one was not focused quite right, or the mirror image was simply grey sky or an amorphous green with no detail. The pine trees will often make soap when it rains. Soap is a mixture of salts and acids and the rain dissolves them in a solution that runs down the trunk, stopping and foaming at the bottom or when the stream hits a rough spot. We found a quite a few white pines getting a cleansing like this yesterday. Gracie loves bubbles- like in PD's bath- and she loves biting them, so she went right for the tree soap. She hadn't seemed to notice it until PD mentioned it and then she headed straight for the foam. I swear that understands English better than a lot of people who learned it as a first language! The water level in the marsh is up three inches already, and the swamp, which was looking a little wan and peaked, is flooded again. Like magick swamp grasses and mayapples erupted from the black muck. It would have been a good day to get lost in the swamp…but Gracie would LOVE getting mucky and that muck smells like shit. PD couldn't stand that, so we moved on. There is white cup lichen growing in an oak savanna above the marsh, to the southeast. It hasn't bloomed yet but I'll keep an eye on it- there should be some red flowers appearing soon. Right now you can make out traces of pink if you look closely. We only hiked about three miles. It was hot under the raincoats and we haven't been taking long hikes so we were getting tired and sweaty. Gracie is fast improving so once again she outlasted us- she was ready for more when we headed back. My camera batteries died and when I began changing them I got them mixed up and had to give up on taking pictures for the day. I had backup batteries, but it was just as well to stop looking for photos and walk, soaking up the green. It's become a glorious spring, thanks to the rain.           Become a member now and get a free tote bag. |
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Congratulations on getting that fantastic shot!  
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Oh, WOW! What a shot! Bravo! I love all the pictures. There's something special about the rain - forest seems more magical. Visit my blog It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World of NaughtyInSO, leave a comment, become a watcher. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LIVE AND LET LIVE Be happy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Congratulations on getting that fantastic shot! Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Awesome pictures indeed!! WITHOUT PASSION LIFE IS NOTHING
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Oh, WOW! What a shot! Bravo! I love all the pictures. There's something special about the rain - forest seems more magical. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Awesome pictures indeed!! Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Worth... every sweaty Mac, every fumble-and-curse with the camera, every awkward, off-weighted step. Your travelogues (for those of us outside of the rural Michigan area) continue to be a source of joy and inspiration... and tranquility! Love the tension of the forming drop... you're the Helmut Newton of coniferous trees! Stop in, read, and offer comments at my "swinging as seen in the media" blog, "Confessions of a Lifestyle Man" humorlife, which is also the home of the monthly virtual symposium. New post: The Virtual Symposium Returns Lets Pick A Topic
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Worth... every sweaty Mac, every fumble-and-curse with the camera, every awkward, off-weighted step. Your travelogues (for those of us outside of the rural Michigan area) continue to be a source of joy and inspiration... and tranquility! Love the tension of the forming drop... you're the Helmut Newton of coniferous trees! I like cities. I like big libraries and crowds and I love the crush of people. But if I couldn't go off into the woods and fields regularly I'd go fucking nuts. I HAVE gone fucking nuts not being able to get there. I'm not a woodsman or a survivalist, but I feel like I belong there. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Thank you beautiful. They aren't anything like as gorgeous as your new profile photo! Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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We're starting our 2nd week of rain here, it hasn't rained a lot, but it looks like rain every day. I can't wear a raincoat very long before I overheat. Great pics, did you see the "purple ninja"? Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Right now it's sunny and cool- forty five degrees at midday. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Nice pictures. Aren't you glad someone invented the digital camera. It makes it so much easier and less expensive to get the good shots (now you can take multiple shots and not have a lot of wasted film and development expense). Not like the old days when you didn't know for sure if you got the shot until the film was developed. You probably know this but if you can shut the aperture of the your camera down to a smaller size it will give you a greater depth of field for your focus which can help if you have problems seeing the image (I know I have trouble seeing the focus detail in the small screen of my camera). It will require a longer exposure time though so camera shake can be a problem. Sometimes flash can help but there are side effects that can be complicated to deal with when it comes to using a flash up close. Some cameras have a macro mode for close ups. It's something that can be experimented with at home on a digital camera as it is easy to see the results right away. Vive La Difference
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I am glad we have digital cameras, but even though I've been using inexpensive ones for sixteen years or so, I haven't learned many tricks about making them work better, or working with their peculiarities. It's only been since late last summer that I began taking photos in nature- I bought this camera to take photos of headstones for my genealogy research. I don't have a manual focus option on this camera. I have tripods and a monopod to help with shake...but there's a limit to how much junk I want to haul around the woods. And part of my own problem is that I haven't taken the time to just play around with it and experiment. Thanks for your comment- you've got me thinking. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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It was dumb luck and I'll take full credit for it! I like macros anyway but I don't have the equipment for them, so I have to fake it with what I have. I knew as soon as that gem popped up on my computer that THAT was what I wanted. Part of the fun of it is the not knowing what you've got til later. The joy of discovery! But I'm not bad at recognizing a gem when I see one either. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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I MUST single out that first image (Water droplet in the process of drop-ping) I absolutely love it!!!! ***********If you have a yen to get" Up-a-Tree," Then it's just a hop-and-a-skip to get down with Meeee !
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I MUST single out that first image (Water droplet in the process of drop-ping) I absolutely love it!!!! Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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