2D film picture scanned and converted to digital. Early one morning as I headed out for a day of fishing, I spotted this Blue Heron atop the old duckblind. This image was taken near Langford Estates in Chestertown, MD.

This session started out with a visit to the northeast corner of Salt Pond A21 where I have been taking a series of photographs documenting that pond’s progress since its connection to the tides in 2006. After a few shots there and over Drawbridge, I moved on to Salt Pond A23.

Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to present the vibrant colors associated with high salinity. It is also a good pond for ground textures in its bottom and along its salt-encrusted shoreline. The pond gains water from precipitation during our rainy season and then dries out during our rainless summers. On this occasion, the brine in Salt Pond A23 was colorful indeed and once again I got a bit giddy with the hues and bottom texture. The high-salinity brine that fills this pond seems to resist the small surface ripples produced by wind. While the winds during this session were quite variable, ranging from 5 to 15 mph, the surface of A23 stayed mirror-like for much of the session producing some pleasant visual effects as the sunset.

I continued north after shooting A23 to take photographs of Salt Pond A22. This pond borders the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland, an interesting landscape of hummocks and vernal pools that hosts endangered flora and aestivating salamanders. I find A22 intriguing because you can see vestigial mounds that I think were once hummocks lie those in Warm Springs. On the other hand, A22 also harbors manmade mounds built for duck hunters. These typically have two wooden barrel-like structures dug into the mound to hide the hunters during their pre-dawn quest. Also evident in the A22 photographs are the remnants of early 19th Century levees, small constructs that enclosed small ponds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

Wild duck hunting pond, Ritsurin Park, Takamatsu, July 2013: The largest pond on the wilder north side of the park was once used for duck hunting.

This session started out with a visit to the northeast corner of Salt Pond A21 where I have been taking a series of photographs documenting that pond’s progress since its connection to the tides in 2006. After a few shots there and over Drawbridge, I moved on to Salt Pond A23.

Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to present the vibrant colors associated with high salinity. It is also a good pond for ground textures in its bottom and along its salt-encrusted shoreline. The pond gains water from precipitation during our rainy season and then dries out during our rainless summers. On this occasion, the brine in Salt Pond A23 was colorful indeed and once again I got a bit giddy with the hues and bottom texture. The high-salinity brine that fills this pond seems to resist the small surface ripples produced by wind. While the winds during this session were quite variable, ranging from 5 to 15 mph, the surface of A23 stayed mirror-like for much of the session producing some pleasant visual effects as the sunset.

I continued north after shooting A23 to take photographs of Salt Pond A22. This pond borders the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland, an interesting landscape of hummocks and vernal pools that hosts endangered flora and aestivating salamanders. I find A22 intriguing because you can see vestigial mounds that I think were once hummocks lie those in Warm Springs. On the other hand, A22 also harbors manmade mounds built for duck hunters. These typically have two wooden barrel-like structures dug into the mound to hide the hunters during their pre-dawn quest. Also evident in the A22 photographs are the remnants of early 19th Century levees, small constructs that enclosed small ponds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

This session started out with a visit to the northeast corner of Salt Pond A21 where I have been taking a series of photographs documenting that pond’s progress since its connection to the tides in 2006. After a few shots there and over Drawbridge, I moved on to Salt Pond A23.

Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to present the vibrant colors associated with high salinity. It is also a good pond for ground textures in its bottom and along its salt-encrusted shoreline. The pond gains water from precipitation during our rainy season and then dries out during our rainless summers. On this occasion, the brine in Salt Pond A23 was colorful indeed and once again I got a bit giddy with the hues and bottom texture. The high-salinity brine that fills this pond seems to resist the small surface ripples produced by wind. While the winds during this session were quite variable, ranging from 5 to 15 mph, the surface of A23 stayed mirror-like for much of the session producing some pleasant visual effects as the sunset.

I continued north after shooting A23 to take photographs of Salt Pond A22. This pond borders the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland, an interesting landscape of hummocks and vernal pools that hosts endangered flora and aestivating salamanders. I find A22 intriguing because you can see vestigial mounds that I think were once hummocks lie those in Warm Springs. On the other hand, A22 also harbors manmade mounds built for duck hunters. These typically have two wooden barrel-like structures dug into the mound to hide the hunters during their pre-dawn quest. Also evident in the A22 photographs are the remnants of early 19th Century levees, small constructs that enclosed small ponds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

are you allowed to hunt with a handgun?

in a duck blind on lake mendota

This session started out with a visit to the northeast corner of Salt Pond A21 where I have been taking a series of photographs documenting that pond’s progress since its connection to the tides in 2006. After a few shots there and over Drawbridge, I moved on to Salt Pond A23.

Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to present the vibrant colors associated with high salinity. It is also a good pond for ground textures in its bottom and along its salt-encrusted shoreline. The pond gains water from precipitation during our rainy season and then dries out during our rainless summers. On this occasion, the brine in Salt Pond A23 was colorful indeed and once again I got a bit giddy with the hues and bottom texture. The high-salinity brine that fills this pond seems to resist the small surface ripples produced by wind. While the winds during this session were quite variable, ranging from 5 to 15 mph, the surface of A23 stayed mirror-like for much of the session producing some pleasant visual effects as the sunset.

I continued north after shooting A23 to take photographs of Salt Pond A22. This pond borders the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland, an interesting landscape of hummocks and vernal pools that hosts endangered flora and aestivating salamanders. I find A22 intriguing because you can see vestigial mounds that I think were once hummocks lie those in Warm Springs. On the other hand, A22 also harbors manmade mounds built for duck hunters. These typically have two wooden barrel-like structures dug into the mound to hide the hunters during their pre-dawn quest. Also evident in the A22 photographs are the remnants of early 19th Century levees, small constructs that enclosed small ponds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

This session started out with a visit to the northeast corner of Salt Pond A21 where I have been taking a series of photographs documenting that pond’s progress since its connection to the tides in 2006. After a few shots there and over Drawbridge, I moved on to Salt Pond A23.

Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to present the vibrant colors associated with high salinity. It is also a good pond for ground textures in its bottom and along its salt-encrusted shoreline. The pond gains water from precipitation during our rainy season and then dries out during our rainless summers. On this occasion, the brine in Salt Pond A23 was colorful indeed and once again I got a bit giddy with the hues and bottom texture. The high-salinity brine that fills this pond seems to resist the small surface ripples produced by wind. While the winds during this session were quite variable, ranging from 5 to 15 mph, the surface of A23 stayed mirror-like for much of the session producing some pleasant visual effects as the sunset.

I continued north after shooting A23 to take photographs of Salt Pond A22. This pond borders the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland, an interesting landscape of hummocks and vernal pools that hosts endangered flora and aestivating salamanders. I find A22 intriguing because you can see vestigial mounds that I think were once hummocks lie those in Warm Springs. On the other hand, A22 also harbors manmade mounds built for duck hunters. These typically have two wooden barrel-like structures dug into the mound to hide the hunters during their pre-dawn quest. Also evident in the A22 photographs are the remnants of early 19th Century levees, small constructs that enclosed small ponds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

This session started out with a visit to the northeast corner of Salt Pond A21 where I have been taking a series of photographs documenting that pond’s progress since its connection to the tides in 2006. After a few shots there and over Drawbridge, I moved on to Salt Pond A23.

Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to present the vibrant colors associated with high salinity. It is also a good pond for ground textures in its bottom and along its salt-encrusted shoreline. The pond gains water from precipitation during our rainy season and then dries out during our rainless summers. On this occasion, the brine in Salt Pond A23 was colorful indeed and once again I got a bit giddy with the hues and bottom texture. The high-salinity brine that fills this pond seems to resist the small surface ripples produced by wind. While the winds during this session were quite variable, ranging from 5 to 15 mph, the surface of A23 stayed mirror-like for much of the session producing some pleasant visual effects as the sunset.

I continued north after shooting A23 to take photographs of Salt Pond A22. This pond borders the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland, an interesting landscape of hummocks and vernal pools that hosts endangered flora and aestivating salamanders. I find A22 intriguing because you can see vestigial mounds that I think were once hummocks lie those in Warm Springs. On the other hand, A22 also harbors manmade mounds built for duck hunters. These typically have two wooden barrel-like structures dug into the mound to hide the hunters during their pre-dawn quest. Also evident in the A22 photographs are the remnants of early 19th Century levees, small constructs that enclosed small ponds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

Toddler boy and his active imagination

This session started out with a visit to the northeast corner of Salt Pond A21 where I have been taking a series of photographs documenting that pond’s progress since its connection to the tides in 2006. After a few shots there and over Drawbridge, I moved on to Salt Pond A23.

Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to present the vibrant colors associated with high salinity. It is also a good pond for ground textures in its bottom and along its salt-encrusted shoreline. The pond gains water from precipitation during our rainy season and then dries out during our rainless summers. On this occasion, the brine in Salt Pond A23 was colorful indeed and once again I got a bit giddy with the hues and bottom texture. The high-salinity brine that fills this pond seems to resist the small surface ripples produced by wind. While the winds during this session were quite variable, ranging from 5 to 15 mph, the surface of A23 stayed mirror-like for much of the session producing some pleasant visual effects as the sunset.

I continued north after shooting A23 to take photographs of Salt Pond A22. This pond borders the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland, an interesting landscape of hummocks and vernal pools that hosts endangered flora and aestivating salamanders. I find A22 intriguing because you can see vestigial mounds that I think were once hummocks lie those in Warm Springs. On the other hand, A22 also harbors manmade mounds built for duck hunters. These typically have two wooden barrel-like structures dug into the mound to hide the hunters during their pre-dawn quest. Also evident in the A22 photographs are the remnants of early 19th Century levees, small constructs that enclosed small ponds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

On an 8 degree morning, only a certain breed of person wants to get out of bed at 4 A.M.

This session started out with a visit to the northeast corner of Salt Pond A21 where I have been taking a series of photographs documenting that pond’s progress since its connection to the tides in 2006. After a few shots there and over Drawbridge, I moved on to Salt Pond A23.

Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to present the vibrant colors associated with high salinity. It is also a good pond for ground textures in its bottom and along its salt-encrusted shoreline. The pond gains water from precipitation during our rainy season and then dries out during our rainless summers. On this occasion, the brine in Salt Pond A23 was colorful indeed and once again I got a bit giddy with the hues and bottom texture. The high-salinity brine that fills this pond seems to resist the small surface ripples produced by wind. While the winds during this session were quite variable, ranging from 5 to 15 mph, the surface of A23 stayed mirror-like for much of the session producing some pleasant visual effects as the sunset.

I continued north after shooting A23 to take photographs of Salt Pond A22. This pond borders the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland, an interesting landscape of hummocks and vernal pools that hosts endangered flora and aestivating salamanders. I find A22 intriguing because you can see vestigial mounds that I think were once hummocks lie those in Warm Springs. On the other hand, A22 also harbors manmade mounds built for duck hunters. These typically have two wooden barrel-like structures dug into the mound to hide the hunters during their pre-dawn quest. Also evident in the A22 photographs are the remnants of early 19th Century levees, small constructs that enclosed small ponds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

This session started out with a visit to the northeast corner of Salt Pond A21 where I have been taking a series of photographs documenting that pond’s progress since its connection to the tides in 2006. After a few shots there and over Drawbridge, I moved on to Salt Pond A23.

Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to present the vibrant colors associated with high salinity. It is also a good pond for ground textures in its bottom and along its salt-encrusted shoreline. The pond gains water from precipitation during our rainy season and then dries out during our rainless summers. On this occasion, the brine in Salt Pond A23 was colorful indeed and once again I got a bit giddy with the hues and bottom texture. The high-salinity brine that fills this pond seems to resist the small surface ripples produced by wind. While the winds during this session were quite variable, ranging from 5 to 15 mph, the surface of A23 stayed mirror-like for much of the session producing some pleasant visual effects as the sunset.

I continued north after shooting A23 to take photographs of Salt Pond A22. This pond borders the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland, an interesting landscape of hummocks and vernal pools that hosts endangered flora and aestivating salamanders. I find A22 intriguing because you can see vestigial mounds that I think were once hummocks lie those in Warm Springs. On the other hand, A22 also harbors manmade mounds built for duck hunters. These typically have two wooden barrel-like structures dug into the mound to hide the hunters during their pre-dawn quest. Also evident in the A22 photographs are the remnants of early 19th Century levees, small constructs that enclosed small ponds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to present the vibrant colors associated with high salinity. It is also a good pond for ground textures in its bottom and along its salt-encrusted shoreline. The pond gains water from precipitation during our rainy season and then dries out during our rainless summers. On this occasion, most of the brine in Salt Pond A23 had evaporated leaving behind a dry pond bottom featuring salt, gypsum, and the bones of thousands of deceased birds.

I launched the camera on the west end of the levee that separates Salt Ponds A23 and A22. Unlike its neighbor to the south (A23), Salt Pond A22 never seems to accumulate much water and presents a dirtier, dustier pond bottom at this time of year. As I walked eastward along the levee I encountered a pair of duck blinds in A22 and photographed them. The rest of the session was devoted to pond bottom colors and textures.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

Duck-blind, Ritsurin Park, Takamatsu, July 2013: The windows face a long ditch that ducks are lured into, then netted on a signal from those in the duck blind.

Sporting Mossy Oak’s patented Duck Blind print, these Sidewalk Surfers are the perfect of choice for those who want to blend in, but still stand out.

A view of Gunston Cove from near the Swift Pier on Fort Belvoir.

Our last duck hunt at Popa Duck Lodge in Arkansas for this year.

Have no fear: geese, loons, coots, blackbirds, and kingfishers are also covered.

You'll be pleased to know that Cornell's collection of these recordings and much much more is now online.

More on the Tamron 150-600 firmware test at the lake yesterday.