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Quiet lakes and wetlands come alive with the breezy whistle of the American Wigeon, a dabbling duck with pizzazz. Breeding males have a green eye patch and a conspicuous white crown, earning them the name "bald plate." Females are brushed in warm browns with a gray-brown head and a smudge around the eye. Noisy groups congregate during fall and winter, plucking plants with their short goose-like bill from wetlands and fields or nibbling plants from the water's surface. Despite being common, their populations are declining. The best time to see American Wigeons in the Lower 48 is from August through April. The oldest American Wigeon reported was at least 21 years and 4 months old. (allaboutbirds.org)
Saw this dazzling duck at Irvine Park, in southern California.
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Early in the day, before the city wakes up, this part of it is lost among the monstrous reality that never seizes to stop..
- Paris, France (January 2018)
j(flight) by Jen Fuller is not new to the festival this year, but it looked better than ever. Under the Hawthorne bridge on the west side this installation projects images into the paper airplanes for a series look. I shot this from the rear of the installation to have the projector in the image. As always, the challenge here was the crowds. I used a darker exposure so as the further mute the surroundings.
Aspens, Evening Light. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.
Colorful autumn aspen trees in soft evening light, Eastern Sierra Nevada.
As the sun dropped behind the Sierra crest beyond the range of this photograph, the light was changing quickly and the scene was falling into shadows. I realized that if I worked quickly I might be able to get set up in time to catch the last bit of light on the foreground aspen grove. I might have been humorous to watch me work in (at least according to preconceptions) in a distinctly non-landscape-photographer mode, as quickly as possible extending tripod legs, attaching lens to tripod and camera to lens, locating a composition, figuring out an exposure and exposing some bits as that last light began to fade.
The aspens in this photograph are a good example of a couple of things that characterized this year’s color season. For one, in many places whole groves seemed to achieve good color at almost the same time, different from the more typical and gradual pattern. There was also quite good color late in the season, perhaps due to a lack of big storms, particularly wind storms.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
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in the woods of 'de Slotplaets',
Bakkeveen,
province of Friesland,
Netherlands.
Zeiss Batis Aposonnar 2.8/135
Sony Alpha A7RII
The Last Light at Portpatrick. As the tide started to head out i was able to get down amongst the rocks for this shot using the last of the light. The main rock i really liked,but also the light from the hut reflecting on the rocks plays a big part in the composition.
14th January 2012
Canon 5D MKII
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
F11
22mm
ISO50
Exposure 10 Seconds
Lee Soft Grad 0.75
Processed in CS5.1 & Lightroom 3.6
Getty Images - Brian Kerr Photography
Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without asking my written permission. All rights reserved.....© Brian Kerr Photography 2012
From the peak of Kullaberg the very last day of February 2009 ;)
Welcome the month of March - soon it'll be spring again (I hope)!!!
This is the same as the previous shot but without the blurred one overlaid... the pink light on the buildings is the sun coming up behind me.
Some bridge somewhere in Rome. What interested me more than the beautiful structure of the bridge was the dance of the early morning light on the tree. I wanted to use the leaves as a frame through which you glimpse the bridge and its reflection in the water.