A big black willow toppled over down along Fargo Brook a couple of years back. The cold temperatures the other morning yielded a bumper crop of feathery frost crystals on the exposed roots over the water.
Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm macro lens, ISO 1250, f/14, 1/320″ exposure
Morning sunlight illuminates a curl of birch bark.
Nikon D600, Nikon 50mm lens, ISO 160, f/1.8, 1/2500″ exposure
There’s a spot over by the Mailbox Trail beaver pond that has a bunch of old rusted milk cans and such scattered about in the leaf litter. This one held a clutch of still-green ferns and some moss.
Nikon D600, Nikon 50mm lens, ISO 800, f/8, 1/500″ exposure
First the red leaves caught my eye, then I spotted the curlicued shadow of an adjacent weed. Lucky angle!
Nikon D600, Nikon 50mm lens, ISO 200, f/1.8, 1/2000″ exposure
Beech trees are some of the last to drop their leaves—even holding on to them through the winter as they bleach to papery white.
Nikon D600, Nikon 50mm lens, ISO 800, f/1.8, 1/3200″ exposure
Young beech trees march off into the distance…
Nikon D600, Nikon 50mm lens, ISO 100, f/1.8, 1/1250″ exposure
Ralph Towers’s pumpkin crop was a pretty good one. Not a lot of pumpkins, but big. Some bared the dimples of a early summer hailstorm…
Nikon D600, Nikon 50mm lens, ISO500, f/1.8, 1/4000″ exposure
Something about leaves in change really gets to me…
Nikon D600, Nikon 24-120mm lens @ 120mm, ISO 800, f/40, 1/200″ exposure
This rusted mooring eye was was mounted deep into a truck-sized boulder on the beach in Maine.
Nikon D600, Nikon 24-120mm lens @ 100mm, ISO 1250, f/4, 1/800″ exposure.
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