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A long country dive through southern Solano county (CA) brought me to this spot which always reminds me of the scenery from the B&W segment of Wizard Of Oz. I expect to see Dorothy falling into the pig pen nearby.
Lens is an old '80's Vivitar 24mm.
It's my fencepost, but not my pink goggles. I have no idea who placed them there.
I figured it would be a good test for my new lens, which is a Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM with EF 2X II extender, providing an effective focal length of 800mm.
I don't know what all that means, but I like it...
I cropped out some extraneous matter. I was about 35 feet away from the subject, which if you weren't paying attention previously, was this fencepost wearing a set of pink goggles.
A bowl formed by the rotting wood in the top of a fence post creates a place for a tiny garden to grow. The dew from the fog is clinging to the grasses. HFF!
Many years ago there was a house here near the old tree. All that is left today is the cellar and one or two fence posts like this one. A family of foxes lives in the old cellar but it's been a while since I last spotted one of them.
The Leuchars Meadow Pipit posing on a leaning fencepost before dropping down to the field margin to hunt for food.
I was delighted and felt privileged to find these miniature lichen and moss gardens on the top of fenceposts in Glen Affric in the Highlands of Scotland. I knew vaguely that lichens need pure air to thrive and that led me to read more. They are much more complicated than I thought, and I have a LOT more to learn. But here are some lichen facts as a taster. . .
There are more than 1,700 species of lichen in Britain.
Lichens absorb water and minerals from rainwater and directly from the atmosphere, over their entire surface area. This makes them extremely sensitive to atmospheric pollution.
Before the advent of modern dyes they were extremely important sources of dyes for clothing.
Lichens produce a large number of acids, many of them found only in lichens. The litmus dye used so widely as an acid/alkaline indicator in chemistry comes from lichens. Some species also have antibiotic properties. Some of the lichen acids can be utilized in drugs which can be more effective than penicillin.
Another use of lichens from the past is as packing material for ancient Egyptian mummies.
Aren't lichens brilliant?!
Taken with an A. Schacht Ulm Travegar R 100mm f/3.3 Cooke triplet in M42 mount, at f/5.6, at Rock Springs Run State Reserve, Florida.
A Red-Tailed Hawk perches and watches and listens for dinner...I've been accumulating some images of hawks on perches and I kind of like them..thy're all beautiful in their own way....hope that you enjoy them!
One of my favourite stretches of cost lies between Skerries and Loughshinny. The headland of Ballyhavil is a great place for pictures and on this very nice and bright day earlier in 2012 I brought my DIY 5x4 pinhole camera along with me to record a few scenes.
This fencepost goes right down to the rocks to ensure cattle and horses are not allowed to stray into neighbouring fields.
DIY 5x4 pinhole camera
45mm focal length; 0.3mm pinhole diameter
f150; exposure 12 seconds
Fomapan 100 rated at 50 iso in Rodinal 1:100 for 30 minutes semi stand
Berlebach Report 3032 Wooden Tripod
The mate of this hawk was not impressed with my proximity here and swooped down at me while taking this photo! I didn't realize until she flew, that she had prey in her talons!
For best viewing - try large on black
Wood grain, mould and lichen on a round post soak up winter morning sun. It's an uncomplicated life.
Found on the edge of a field at Wakefield near Nelson in New Zealand's lovely South Island.
Crete Hall Road at Northfleet: at the site of a former power station, empty and derelict for years, now the site of a Lidl distribution centre.
A chain holding a gate closed, all rust and peeling paint.
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There's not much happening this spring . . . had to dig into the archives to get that spring feeling.
Here, my ever-faithful and (favorite) globe mallow adorns a trail post.
Bell Rock Pathway
Village of Oak Creek, AZ
(condensation within lens beginning!!!)
cloud forest near Mindo, Ecuador
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections