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
This mink was swimming in the pond this morning along with a muskrat. He wasn’t particularly shy…
Nikon D600, Sigma 120-400mm lens @ 400mm, ISO 2000, f/5.6, 1/160″ 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
Something about leaves in change really gets to me…
Nikon D600, Nikon 24-120mm lens @ 120mm, ISO 800, f/40, 1/200″ 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 