2/27/18

So doing this out of order, whoops.  I missed yesterday somehow.  I shot our Sycamore tree on Sunday, laying on the ground looking up and this is a 3 image stack to get a good amount of it, especially the bark closest to me in focus.

2/28/18

I captured this little bird in the backyard this past Sunday and thought it made for a good Black and White image.  I believe this is a House Sparrow, one of the fairly common birds around here.  It's coloring and the Trumpet Vine it was sitting in made for good detail in a monochrome image.

2/26/18

Today is the second day of my Black & White Challenge.  We had some icing here the other day, fortunately nothing too bad like power outages.  It made for some nice images though.  I captured this shot of a Pine Cone covered in it and felt it was a good monochrome subject. 

2/25/18

I was invited to a Black and White Photography Challenge over on Google + so because my roots in photography are in B&W I decided to take it on.  I used to do my own film and picture processing in that medium.  Things are quite a bit different today with the abilities with digital.  Now it's more about the subject.  I think this one lends itself well to a monochrome look.  This is our train on the High Line of the Durango & Silverton Railway as we headed up to Silverton that I shot from the train.  I like to sit in a rear car for shots like these.

2/24/18

Here is another in my Frozen Bubble Series.  We have warmed up too much to do them this winter and that's actually fine, I am anxious for spring.  I can play with the images I have taken already.  This one is Purple Jewels.
I also added another video that shows a bubble freezing at a slower rate in warmer conditions.  It can be found Here.

2/23/18

I felt like something sunny today after the gloomy day we had yesterday and a lot of today.  These are some sunflowers from my garden this past summer.

2/22/18

I have a day off today due to Icy conditions.  This is an image from a much warmer day in Minnesota this past September.  I took this shot at the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's reunion.  The newly and beautifully restored Cook Shack was being hauled out to the threshing area by one of the steam traction engines.