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This is a picture of a tiny mushroom growing on a 4"x4" fencepost top. I used my macro setting and then cropped it close. The mushroom itself was less than 1" tall.
Oil, gas, and wind power, Pawnee National Grassland has it all.
HBW !
and an early HFF for that matter.
I had been shooting the calves running in the pasture when I noticed the "lasso" of barbed wire hanging on the fence.
I've been asked to post some examples of an unusual collection which I've created. It's easier to appreciate them in person, but I hope something of their interest comes through here.
Although Eastern Kansas is covered with trees, the earliest farmers from the 1840s-1850s seems to have been worried about the longevity of their fence posts. This led to the importation from the Eastern US of harder woods for use as posts. The hardness of the wood - I've never discovered what trees the wood was from - made it necessary to cut them triangular instead of round.
I've only acquired a few over the years. None are in use, of course, but occasionally I've found a few in road construction sites. The old fields don't match modern roads and they've usually been pushed aside during construction as the drainage ditches for the roads were created.
I love them. They're often swollen at the top for some reason and often, as in the example of today's post 1, have had trees grown through them to disfigure them. Now these 150 year old wooden items have a texture which resemble reptile skin, have various colored molds, and often still bear the hardware from their working days.
I cut the bottoms flat and use concrete inside old bucks to allow them to stand. Years of working in and walking in old fields and wilderness plains areas has left me large quantities of fossils, the detritus of life and work in this harsh environment, and the bones of any numbers of creatures. The buckets seem a natural place to toss this material.
Beautiful? Not really. Interesting? Absolutely.
a day in the sun at the yard with the Nags...
I don't know... there is something about the texture of the timber with the cob-webs all over it :-)
These cattails (aka 'Typha') are always neat to see. We're lucky enough to have a patch of them on my road, so we can see them every day. Some people don't like these plants, but I'm not sure why... Shot with my iPhone 4S (again) in HDR mode (High Dynamic Range) and tweaked ever so slightly with Lightroom and ran thru LR/Enfuse to try to grab a little more sky...
Very used to using the full frame D800 but trying out the FX (full frame) 20mm f1.8 on my new D500, which is of course a DX (APS-C) format camera. Reasonably happy with the somewhat reduced wide-angle-ness of the thing and very surprised by the quality of the pix at such (for me) high ISO. Faster shutter speeds may become my norm!
Chinese fishermen began fishing for shrimp in California probably around the mid-1860s. As the enterprise grew in the 1870s and 1880s, numerous villages or "shrimp camps" were established on the shores of both San Francisco and San Pablo bays. China Camp was one of the largest and longest-lived of these camps. China Camp today is a unit of the California State Park System and a California State Historical Landmark. See here for more info.
Scan of a 35mm slide
The bottom of fence post, fixed to a concrete wall. Part of a derelict structure on Swanscombe Marshes: the dark red paint is from graffiti immediately below...
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