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Yellow-headed Blackbird male (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus)
Bruno's favourite perch, especially late in the day. Like his brethren, he spends most of his time among the Cattails....
Another one from Black Hawk Park.
Headed for yet another record day tomorrow. Forecast is for the mid 80's! That's nearly 30 degrees above normal!
The trees are quite beautiful at twilight in today's light snow.
Our Daily Challenge: Hidden In The Darkness
Used Photoshop and LightRoom for noise reduction.. was not able to remove it completely.. Still figuring out a proper method to reduce noise in my pictures...any suggestions and inputs ?
Replaced after adjusting the horizon.
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Wetlands Tree, Fog. San Joaquin Valley, California. February 15, 2016. © Copyright 2016 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A tree and brush reflected in still water of a fog-shrouded wetland pond
These are my favorite days in California' Great Central Valley, the winter days when the tule fog forms and covers the landscape, making almost everything seem mysterious. On days when most sane people avoid driving in this fog, I head this direction hoping I'll find it. In certain areas, even when it is clear almost everywhere else, the fog can form above the winter wetlands and quickly drop visibility to near zero. (One of the strangest but characteristic experiences is driving slowly through pre-dawn darkness and fog so thick that you can barely see more than feet in front of you, yet being able to look straight up through the shallow fog layer to see the moon and stars overhead.)
It was tremendously foggy on the February morning. Arriving at this refuge we could hear thousands of geese and cranes off in the invisible distance in almost all directions, but we could not see a single bird. Eventually, on a perimeter road circling the wetlands, I came across this spot were a few trees stand in the shallow, still water. The fog hides distant elements of the landscape or at least mutes them, giving prominence to closer features that might otherwise be lost in background detail. The central tree, visually muted even though it is barely fifty feet from my camera position, curves above the reflecting water and its skeletal form stands out from the nearly invisible background plants and water that are almost invisible in the fog.
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On the east side of Glacier by the Blackfeet Indian Reservation there is a huge grove of windswept trees like the ones pictured. After a short hike, you will run into tree after tree, each gnarlier than the last. It was quite the experience. The grove is located on a little plateau overlooking some of Glacier's mountains and you can feel the wind up there that shaped these trees. I visited twice, the second time I wanted to shoot the full moon and was there around 4-5am. Winds were howling and a cold front had came through that night leaving temps in the 20s. I had two down jackets on and probably looked like I was about to climb Everest. The wind is relentless though even on a calm day. This shot was from my first hike up to the trees and it was 'calm', AKA 30mph winds. This was the morning after the lenticular and the light was off the hook again. Actually got lucky, if the sun would have rose about an hour later, sunrise would have just been bland and gray with overcast skies. This was no doubt, one of the best sunrises I have ever seen. Yet, it was the quickest as well. There was some beautiful pre-dawn light, but the real show was when the sky lit up like you see here. 30 seconds later is was gone and there was snow in the air.
Spotted this burl on 119 going up to Mackinaw last weekend. Amazing what you can see in that burl.
A burl (American English) or bur or burr (used in all non-US English speaking countries) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is commonly found in the form of a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk or branch that is filled with small knots from dormant buds. A burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress. It may be caused by an injury, virus or fungus.
Fall, Maple, tree, leaves, trunk, fall colors. I particularly like that the rich colors actually glow on the tree trunks.
Taking down my 70 year old maple, badly split and ready to fall any day, btw that's not me with the chainsaw!
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"A look through my rose-tinted spectacles"
1. Pink; rosy.
2. Seen or represented in too favourable a light.
Idiom: see through rose-coloured spectacles (look through rose-coloured spectacles, see through rose-tinted spectacles, look through rose-tinted spectacles, see through rose-tinted glasses, look through rose-tinted glasses)
To view things in an unrealistically hopeful or cheerful way.
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