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Dick and Nancy Eales Preserve (formerly Moosic Mountain Preserve), Lackawanna County.
The Nature Conservancy owns and manages the preserve.
If you're familiar with Charles Cramer's incredible Yosemite photos, you may notice this scene looks familiar. I try to avoid borrowing another photographer's tripod holes, but I couldn't resist giving this location a try myself.
Cramer's gorgeous shot from this location may be my all-time favorite Yosemite pic by any photographer--there's something simultaneously soft and violent about the water motion Cramer captures (his shot is just exquisitely beautiful), and it happens to be one of my favorite spots in the park that isn't just shot to death. It's also a tough location to shoot, as I've bemoaned before--not tough to get to, but compositionally challenging--but while I thought the upper falls presented a challenge, I hadn't given much thought to what was involved in capturing this scene (from the other side, below the bridge).
To get this view, I had to straddle my tripod over the bridge railing in a not-so-stable way, and then straddle the railing myself to keep a good grip on the camera and be able to see through the viewfinder. I don't have a fear of heights, but that was a little dicey--the drop from here would be quite a ways down--I used my long lens to get this shot--with nothing but granite and whitewater to greet you at the bottom. I walked away shaking my head, trying to imagine Cramer doing this with his big camera, and am now even more in awe of him and his beautiful image.
The water flow last weekend was considerably lower than it was when Cramer captured it in his springtime shot, so I'll revisit this spot again once the big thaw gets going this spring.
Looking out from inside one of the caves into the Atlantic. At low tide, you can get down and explore the caves, crevices and pools in the rock formations.
Blowing Rocks is a Nature Conservancy Preserve on Jupiter Island, Florida.
The waxing crescent Moon and Venus (above) over the old farm house at the Visitor Centre at the Old Man on His Back Prairie and Heritage Conservation Area in southwest Saskatchewan, May 20, 2015, on a very clear night. The old house was the original house lived in by the Butala family who settled the area in the 1920s.
This is a single exposure taken as part of an 850-frame time-lapse sequence with the 14mm Rokinon lens and Canon 60Da camera.
Detail of a cypress tree along the boardwalk at Lake Martin, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
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Slugs feed on a mushroom at Florence Shelly Preserve in Susquehanna County, Pa., on Aug. 2, 2016. The 357-acre preserve is owned by the Nature Conservancy and features forest, fields, a stream, and glacial pond surrounded by a floating bog. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Sunlight shines down onto the sand and rock through a crevice that opens up into a small cave in the formation at Blowing Rocks Nature Preserve, Atlantic Coast, Jupiter Island Florida
Wetland, Woodbourne Forest and Wildlife Preserve, Susquehanna County.
The preserve, owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy, protects a large tract of old-growth hemlocks, white pines, and northern hardwoods.
Captured over two days in June with thunderstorms rolling through. Images show before, during and after the storm. Shot along Skyline Rd. in Wabaunsee County, Kansas.
The Nature Conservancy hosts a group of roughly 30 visitors for a vernal pool hike led by Andy Green, a retired doctor, at Forest Pools Preserve, adjacent to Kings Gap State Park in Cumberland County, Pa., on March 25, 2016. Because vernal pools, or seasonal wetlands, dry up every year, they don't harbor fish and thus are critical habitat for many amphibian species. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A view from below looking over the small tide pools that form at low tide.
Blowing Rocks is a Nature Conservancy Preserve and is just North of Coral Cove Park on Jupiter Island on the Atlantic Coast.
Blowing Rocks Nature Preserve
Nature Conservancy
Jupiter Island Florida
Olympus E-600
Fraser Preserve boasts about 110 species of birds, including the bald eagle, and 300 varieties of wildflowers. A short hike offers glimpses of the many natural habitats found in the Piedmont region, including fast, clear streams, lush cold-spring swamp, marsh, mature hardwood forests, open meadow, ponds, river and stream floodplain forests and thickets, steep rocky bluffs, springs and seeps, and various stages of old field succession. The terrain slopes down to the Potomac River, which forms the preserve's northern boundary.
Dark, cloudy and foggy morning. Recently spotted by birdwatchers, she's actually been here since December. A friend and fellow photographer got a few shots back then, but didn't know the species or significance. This is only the second ever confirmed sighting of the Ringed Kingfisher in the state. See link below for the shots Barry took back in December.
Fall Reflection, Canonchet Brook Preserve, Hopkinton, Rhode Island; © 2024, T. P. Hazard; SOOC
Shot with Fuji X Weekly’s Velvia v2 film simulation recipe
Atamasco Lily (Zephyranthes atamasca), also called Rain Lily. Moody Forest WMA, Appling County, Georgia.
Florence Shelly Preserve in Susquehanna County, Pa., on Aug. 2, 2016. The 357-acre preserve is owned by the Nature Conservancy and features forest, fields, a stream, and glacial pond surrounded by a floating bog. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A photo credit mentioning the Chesapeake Bay Program is mandatory. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way or used in any way that suggests approval or endorsement of the Chesapeake Bay Program. Requestors should also respect the publicity rights of individuals photographed, and seek their consent if necessary.
Florence Shelly Preserve in Susquehanna County, Pa., on Aug. 2, 2016. The 357-acre preserve is owned by the Nature Conservancy and features forest, fields, a stream, and glacial pond surrounded by a floating bog. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A photo credit mentioning the Chesapeake Bay Program is mandatory. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way or used in any way that suggests approval or endorsement of the Chesapeake Bay Program. Requestors should also respect the publicity rights of individuals photographed, and seek their consent if necessary.
A wave crashes against the weird rock formations of coquina rock on Jupiter Island.
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Boardwalk trail through dense wetland vegetation, Monroe County, within the Thomas Darling Preserve.
A rock formation juts out into the Atlantic at Blowing Rocks Nature Preserve. These Anastasia Limestone formations have been formed by wind and wave action over thousands of years
Bison stampede at Broken Kettle Grasslands as Nature Conservancy staff drive the bison heard in for annual medical treatment and exam.
Old farm fields are slowly returning to woods at the Long Valley Farm section of Carvers Creek State Park near Spring Lake in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
This is a silhouette image of a Golden Orb Spider that I found at the Blowing Rocks Preserve on Jupiter Island.
The Nature Conservancy hosts a group of roughly 30 visitors for a vernal pool hike at Forest Pools Preserve, adjacent to Kings Gap State Park in Cumberland County, Pa., on March 25, 2016. Because vernal pools, or seasonal wetlands, dry up every year, they don't harbor fish and thus are critical habitat for many amphibian species. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A photo credit mentioning the Chesapeake Bay Program is mandatory. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way or used in any way that suggests approval or endorsement of the Chesapeake Bay Program. Requestors should also respect the publicity rights of individuals photographed, and seek their consent if necessary.
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I've been trying to learn and experiment in different shutter speeds lately. This is my first attempt at the usual waterfall-type shot, but you know what they say about cliche shots -- it's MY cliche shot :) I have no illusions that it's a great photo, but I'm learning and practicing and that's the important thing. And, it's in the middle of a gorgeous butterfly garden (we saw all of one butterfly...:)) I don't like drawing a lot of attention to myself so just setting up the tripod in a public place was a big step for me.
I used the rented 105mm f/2.8 macro lens for this shot. May seem like an odd choice but the reason wasn't really complex -- I hadn't expected to find a waterfall there, and it was on the camera at the moment. It's a very sharp and crisp lens so I just used it. :)
This is one shot I would welcome critiques on... I used shutter priority mode at 1/3 sec. and ended up setting exposure compensation to -4 due to the very bright sunlight on the rocks. I hadn't intended to have to set it so low but I kept bumping it down as I kept blowing out the rock highlights and so -4 is where it ended up. :)
Additional info: The only post processing that was done other than cropping was tonal - during the raw conversion in Bridge, I adjusted the white balance (a little too much blue in the water) and bumped up slight boosts to clarity and vibrance.
View On Black for more detail.
Understory of cinnamon ferns (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum) in a dense forest of spruce, hemlocks, and northern hardwoods, Monroe County, within the Thomas Darling Preserve.
Moss and Norway spruces (Picea abies) at the West Branch Forest Preserve, a Nature Conservancy preserve in Clinton County.
I'm right there with you: wondering what awaits in that little cave in the background.
Blowing Rocks Nature Preserve
Jupiter Island, Martin County, Florida, USA
The Nature Conservancy
Olympus E-600
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