Swamp

Another picture in the Swamp series, from South Carolina.

Very old Cypress tree in Florida.

This is my first swamp sparrow photograph.

Found a small swamp area up in Cade's Cove. A blue Heron flew in fro a morning feed and reflection!

Viewed by naturalists and other scientists as one of the best outdoor laboratories in the world, this vast swamp, a national wildlife refuge, is nearly 113,00 acres (45729 hectares) in size.

Our first American president, George Washington, was an early surveyor of this landform.

Thank you all for your visits, favs and comments. I greatly appreciate it and enjoy reading every one!

Teublitzer Weihergebiet an einem Nebelmorgen .....

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/640, f/6.3, ISO 200. View Large.

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/500, f/6.3, ISO 3600. View Large.

Louisiana

Nikon Z 9, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/6.3, 1/800, ISO 4000. View Large.

I thought this was "Swamp Milkweed", but my neighbor Katherine corrected me. It's actually called Purpletop Vervain or Verbena bonariensis! (It was in her garden!}

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/800, f/6.3, ISO 1600. View Large.

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/500, ISO 2500. View Large.

Eyed Brown butterfly at rest on a sedge leaf.

Common and abundant.

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Art&Ko @ GALA Fair for Tres Chic

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Here's an image from my last trip to Texas to shoot the Cypress Swamp. The sky was pretty ugly white in this image, so I tried the new Adobe sky replacement. It's like magic and it dramatically improved the image. I have so much to be thankful for and feel very luck. Lots to look forward to including seeing and spending time with friends and sharing our modern style of friendship with those I only know on social media. Happy Thanksgiving.

Swamp Smoothies "green Smoothies" typically have raw rotted fruits, vegetables, algae, tadpoles, minnows, protozoa, gator bits, snake skin, and fresh tea colored water.

Highly nutritious smoothies include dietary fiber (e.g. pulp, skin, and seeds) and are thicker than fruit juice, often with a consistency similar to a milkshake.

This sweet swamp scene was somewhere down a dirt road after McCutcheon’s Falls and before Kingston, no GPS on my camera so no way to be sure where its location is. Unlocated but like most of my life’s small but great visual offerings I come on them by happenstance though some would say things are put in our path to teach us. Whether by chance or not it is our choice that determines whether we stop to take in the scene and see the beauty in the everyday or we continue to see through the blinders of our own making that keep us focused on the unimportant.

I took this on Sept 27th, 2021 with my D850 and Tamron 24-70 f2.8 G2 Lens at 24mm, 0.8s, f5.6 ISO 64 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia ,and DXO Nik

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress

Cypress trees in the swamp. A dab of new spring green leaf growth on the limbs

These sparrows are winter residents in Missouri, and can be found in large numbers at regional wetlands around St Louis. They like to keep a low profile when possible, but will frequently pop up among the brown reeds. Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary, West Alton, Missouri

Another handsome individual. If you are getting the feeling that I saw a lot of swamp sparrows on this particular outing, you are correct! I find them to be attractive and underrated birds, so I'll continue to post the shots I like. Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary in West Alton, Missouri

full resolution if you like, clicking on the image

Swamp Lilies are abundant in late summer at Corkscrew Swamp, but this one was blooming in February. According to Sanctuary literature, "white-tailed deer will search this plant out for a tasty snack."

Uploaded on 16 Nov 2018

© Stefano M. Naïf

Another Swampie from my trip a couple weeks ago. Confluence State Park, Missouri

Tamarac NWR, Minnesota

Caught between the plant stems, I like the background on this shot. Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary in West Alton, Missouri

A marshy swamp in the mountains? I know, crazy right? This sits at around 3,800ft in elevation between Clay and Macon County in Western North Carolina. I had considered doing a big impressive sunset over the swamp here, but found this composition by the lakeside as the light was waning a bit. So I scuttled my plans to try and get some decent light shooting from the road and hunkered down on the soft wet ground shooting across the swamp into this mountain top in the distance. Found this log in the foreground, unfortunately I ignored my own advice and didn't bend this sapling back and it sits prominently in the bottom right. Otherwise I enjoy this shot, the colors, contrast, light reflections.

ISO: 160

Aperture: f4

SS: 1/125

Focal: 33mm

A K&F CPL to help brighten the blues in the sky, cut through the reflections a bit.. This is a focus stack of 42 images.

If you like this and some of my other images, I invite you to take a look at my wildlife/birding blog, which I try to update every few days. ... grenfell.weebly.com and my web page at www.tekfx.ca

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Deep woods of Bergslagen .

Olympus digital camera

Parker's Laundry Basket

The need to be creative weighed against obligations can sometimes feel overwhelming. But I love blogging. So I wanted to show how I sometimes feel but also be creative at the same time.

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Queen Anne's County MD

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/500, f/7.1, ISO 1800.

If you are into flowers, the best time to visit Thale Noi wetlands is in April when the lotus are blooming.

Thanks so much for stopping by! :)

EXPLORED FEB. 10, 2015

I was driving around on some back roads the other day and came upon this. It sure reminded me of being in the everglades. Normally this is a pasture for horses, but it looks like our recent rains have turned it into a swamp.