Sony a7r3, Sony FE 200-600mm

With a snowflake on her nose.

Somewhere in the Shenandoah Valley outside of Waynesboro

Tohono Chul Park, Tucson

Tiny snails in crack no more than a few millimetres wide

Rocky Bay, Waiheke, Auckland

While photographing an old fencepost on a woodsy walk, I also caught beam of light.

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Eugene, Oregon

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Panasonic Lumix G 35-100 f:2.8

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Just beyond the barrier -- no man's land

I've never uploaded a photo like this to Flickr. Let's try it, and see if anyone clicks on it.

This is a fencepost. It, and its fellows, have been there for decades. Since there's no visible lichen growth, and not much decay, I assume that the posts were treated with some preservative. (Actually, there's a grass plant growing at the top of one of them.)

I just aimed and shot, hoping to get some detail and the background. I enhanced the contrast a bit with The Gimp. The visible growth rings mean that the spring wood, with thicker cell walls, is more intact than the alternate rings of summer wood.

Thanks for looking. Larger sizes, looking pretty much like this, are available.

winter forest

Fenceposts--Sony A7RII with Dallmeyer Super Six Anastigmat 8" f2.0 lens

Many of the rails and posts of the fences were covered with lichen at the Historic Batsto Village.

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A bonsai forest has grown in the Garw valley fencepost

From last year.

View On Black

Fenceposts in the Finglandrigg Wood Nature Reserve included in Forest Bug nymph surveys undertaken from April 2015 onwards, 27 November 16.

Details of the surveys themselves will be posted early next year along with an analysis of the results presented in histogram form. The exercise has been broadly comparable to that undertaken for Blue Shieldbugs monitored on the boardwalk of the Kingmoor Sidings Nature Reserve, Carlisle, earlier this year (see photo posted on 22 October for background).

In the interim I thought I'd provide a bit of context by posting some shots of the relevant parts of the route through the reserve taken whilst doing today's count (19 second-instars found). Forest Bug nymphs have been found on all of the sections of fencing shown in these photos at some time or other. The locations of the shots are described below.

Photo 01: Paddock on the north side of the track from the car park

Photos 02 to 04: En route to the Chalybeate Well

Photo 05: By the Chalybeate Well

Photo 06: To the south-east of Little Bampton Common (LBC)

Photo 07: On the east side of the block of woodland to the south of LBC

Photo 08: Through the block of woodland to the south of LBC

Photo 09: East of the north-east gate to LBC

Photo 10: Along the eastern boundary of LBC

Photos 11 and 12: Along the northern boundary of LBC

I should point out that the extent of the monitoring varied from visit to visit dependent on a number of factors, but today's was a full survey covering approximately 430 fenceposts and taking about 2.5 hours in all.

(Text to be updated on completion of the monitoring program.)

At the farm early this morning.

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Old fence post. King City, Ontario, Canada. Canon EOS 5DII, Contax Zeiss Distagon 35mm F1.4.

Make good fences.

Annapolis Valley in the Winter

HFF!

Not entirely sure where I was for this. Somewhere in the vicinity of Trefforest, but up a minr road I'd never been on before.

HFF!

The lichen on this post really caught my eye yesterday, i like the texture of the wood too.

horned lark - male

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A solitary fencepost I met while walking through Shorne Marshes...

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Stormstown Pa

Oconto County, Wisconsin. I loved this winter farm field and was thrilled with the clouds on this day. Holga camera.

A mid-day shot with a little fill flash to try and cut the harsh contrast and open the shadows...