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.
Okay, this one must have one heck of a story behind it. I drove up to the Appalachian Gap yesterday morning to check out the fall foliage and came across this. Off on the edge of the parking area at the top of the Gap, someone had tied a large stump upside down to the end of the guard rail. They’d build a nest of branches and twigs and placed a dead coyote in this “bier”. It hasn’t been there long as there wasn’t much in the way of rot or scavenger impact yet. My imagination roams: perhaps someone hit the coyote with their car and, in a pang of remorse, built this bier to return the coyote to the sky? I certainly resonate with that impulse. Does anyone out there know the backstory on this? Fascinating!
Nikon D600, Nikon 24-120mm lens @ 24mm, ISO 400, f/4, 1/2000″ exposure.
John Hadden Photography 