Spring Potpourri | Pin Oak
Spring Potpourri | Pin Oak Pin Oak trees keep their leaves all winter until spring. These leaves have not fallen yet. The spring snow only looks like winter.
Spring Potpourri | Snow Berries
Spring Potpourri | Snow Berries Sometimes winter tries to reclaim spring. Luckily, spring always wins sooner or later.
Spring Potpourri | Clear Spring Water
Spring Potpourri | Clear Spring Water Melted cold lake ice makes clear cold water. The remains of an old trestle still breaks the surface near the shore.
Spring Potpourri | Last Lake Ice
Spring Potpourri | Last Lake Ice The lake ice is receding from the shoreline and has become very thin. The ice usually comes off the lake in a day or two. If the temperature is warm with a strong wind, the ice can disappear within a couple of hours from one side of the lake to the other side, like a big arm just peeling it back.
Spring Potpourri | Melting Ice
Spring Potpourri | Melting Ice One of the first signs of spring tends to be melting ice along the shoreline as well as around stationary objects in the water. Soon the lake will be ice free; ready for water fowl and fishermen.
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Final Approach on “36”
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Final Approach on “36” Three six is a grass runway; although it’s hard to tell with all the snow. What was the visibility on short final? Well, don’t know, but it was better than a mile and an inch.
The Back Story With intermittent light snow showers around the airport, sometimes you found yourself flying through the snow showers on short final. This image was captured through the windshield by the right seat passenger. For more information on aviation photography, go to Nikon 1 V3 for Aviation | a 7 Image Story.
Fine Art Portfolio | Long Exposure Lake
Fine Art Portfolio | Long Exposure Lake A long exposure not only flattens and smooths the water, it also can create interesting shapes. In this case, the trees made nice curved shapes on the water. Long exposures also tends to add calm and tranquility by smoothing the rough edges. This image seems to capture the drama between the smooth lake and rugged sky.
The Back Story What a beautiful end to a nice day on the lake! Just enough light remained to cast shadows on the lake. The air was calm but small waves persisted on the lake. A long exposure would hopefully smooth the water. Long exposures can be really fun to capture. From the dock, I experimented with different 30 sec exposures while waiting for the best shadow. With everything dialed into the camera, the calm wait for the best composition was quite pleasant. As the sun quickly sank late in the day, the strength of the light made very dramatic changes in the reflections off the water. Before I called it a night, I captured several long exposures.
Details…
| Event | A Day on the Lake |
| Location | Lake Cadillac |
| Date/Time | 5/31/2010 8:20 pm Local Time |
| Weather | Partly Cloudy | 65°F | Light Winds |
| Method | Amble out to the dock before sunset, setup tripod, and wait. |
| Gear | Nikon D300 with 12-24mm lens, tripod |
2020 Good Riddance | Landscape Unclear
2020 Good Riddance | Landscape Unclear Uncertainty blurred most days and weeks in 2020. It was a year of many surprises and many reactions, which were very hard to see coming. Our new normal was not much like our old normal. For the whole story with all images, see 2020 Good Riddance | a 7 Image Story.
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