Nature – Page 18 – Daffodil Hill Photography

Raptor On A Wire

As I was walking from my car to the house after work today I spied something sitting on the power wire going to our house. I came in a grabbed my Canon Powershot SX10is and took the following shots. I know we have Red-Tailed Hawks, Barred Owls and an occasionally a passing Peregrine Falcon but I cannot identify this raptor. A little help from any birder watchers would be helpful. Till the next time, Enjoy!

(Side note: Spell check did not like the way I spelled raptor and changed it to rapture. That is why I need to edit my stuff a little closer).

The Old Fence Line

This summer one of my goals is to remove as much of the unused wire fencing from our place. The uptick is it will no longer be endangering local deer and wildlife. The downside not to many opportunities for shots like this.

The Difference Twelve Or So Hours Make

The day greeted me with a few inches of sleet covering a thin blanket of ice. It did make our old barn look quite nice but several hours after this shot it was getting serious and I though “Here we go again”.

By the end of the day we had sunshine and The Boy was happy as we were.

Just Stopping By

A couple of Canada geese are visiting our place though I am not sure why since they usually fly up the road to the lake. As I was getting some items out of my car I spotted them in the field next to the house. Thankfully one of those items was my Canon Powershot SX10is. I was able to get several shots of them but not wanting to spook them I could not frame them both in the same shot. So here is one of my “just stopping by” neighbors.

Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

I spent a little time at the lake with The Bride this past Sunday. The Sun was out as well as the locals, both two leg and otherwise. Here is one of the later, an Embden Goose, who I think have the most beautiful eyes.

To Seed Or Not To Seed

I took this with my Olympus SP-350 point & Shot

I took this with a HP Photosmart 5 megapixel camera.

The combination of crappy weather ( Insert: We have had a real winter for once, in say the last five years: Here), a bad cold, a bum leg and general life things have had the net effect of mucking up my photo-mojo as of late. On the few occasions I did get an opportunity to grab a shot or three I have really stunk up the pixels, if you know what I mean. Today was one of four ops I have had this month and I stopped by and revisited a bush I had taken several shots of earlier in the month. The first photo is of a few seed pods encased in ice, representing this next of the woods as of late. The second is a few unencumbered pods on the same bush, of which I took today. As I was looking at the seed pods today I noticed they were all open. I assumed that, by the pictures earlier this month, they have been closed until recently. Since I know not what type of bush it is this thought that flittered across my mind: To Seed Or Not To Seed, that is the question.

Notwithstanding

Since the Sun is still on sabbatical, I found this picture I took several years ago to fill in notwithstanding.

Buds

Moon Unedited

I took this shot of the moon last February and I used my Canon Powershot SX10is in a very cheap tri-pod. The speed and aperture setting are forgotten but I used, I believe, the tungsten setting on the white balance. Or maybe it was Fluorescent H, none the less I guess the point is play with all your cameras setting. If I hadn’t I am not sure I would still be taking the shot.