Looking Back

As I crept closer to try and get a close picture of this squirrel, the squirrel ran up a tree. I shot from far away but I was close enough to be able to see the tiny details on it. Then I was taking the pictures, the squirrel turned around and stared at me. Afterward, he ran up the tree and out of sight.

Early Bird

This early crow was able to get his worm. In his beak is a tiny worm. The crow was resting on the porch when he swooped down and grabbed this worm. He flew back to the fence then started to eat. Unlike yesterday's picture of the all black crow, this crow has several colors on him. The blue/black wings, the black body, and the gray beak.

American Crow

During the middle of the day, I looked on the powerline and saw this crow. When I was taking the pictures, you could see the different colors on the crow. When I downloaded the picture, all of the colors on the bird turned black. You can still see the lighter black beak and same of the yellow eye but everything else is pitch black.

Red Bird

This red bird has everything a photographer and bird watcher would want. The bright red body, the perfect black ring around the light red mouth and the long tall. I was first taking pictures through a tree then I relocated and moved to this location. The red bird was pecking at the nuts before flying away.

Birds

As I was biking just off of the trail, I heard several bird sounds. I turned my bike around to the sound of the birds. I saw two crows chasing a hawk. They chased the hawk. When the hawk landed, the birds sat next to the hawk. When the hawk took flight, the crows would attack it then this process would repeat.

Multi Sunset

I like the other sunset pictures, but this picture has deeper colors. That is what I like the most about this picture. The deep and rich colors draw your eyes around the colorful clouds. Today I am moving to another house. I will not have the access to the trail I use to bike to far places, but I will still be able to take great pictures.

Single Ear Stud for Athena

I know I don't normally post on Sunday's, but I am going to ask you for a favor today. I participated in a Latin contest yesterday and I won fifth place with this photo. I am proud of that but I feel I can do better. Could you take a minute and add a comment about what would make this a better image? I can change almost anything about this image. One of the obvious fixes is centring the ear stud. Anything else?

Layered Sunset

I turned my camera to the left and found this layered section of the sunset. There are three layers in this picture. The bottom is the red sunset, then there is blue sky, then the semi-colored clouds. This pattern seems to repeat itself as you move from the bottom of the picture up.

Deep Red

As the sunset continued, the colors changed again. The dark red moved behind the trees. I like how the trees just grow on the picture with the sunset behind. If I could retake this picture, I would zoom in closer on the branches and have the branches divide the picture.

Red Sunset

This is the same sunset that has been in the previous days of pictures. The only difference is, I moved to a different spot. As I raced from one spot to another to photograph, the sunset changed dramatically. The once light yellow sunset turned into a deep red. It was like the sunset waited for me to arrive at the new location before showing its full effects.

Sharp Sunset

When the sunset occurs, all other objects go into silhouettes. I focussed on the once brown branch, that had now turned black. We can see every tiny detail on the branch and we can see some of the details on the trees in the background. Above the background trees is the cloudy sunset. This picture is basically split into four parts, the foucssed tree branch, the background blurred trees, the lower sunset, and the cloudy sunset.

Silhouette Tree

As the sun set, it turned this tree black. Even the once light green leaves turned black. I like how the tree is all one color, it keeps the picture simple and interesting at the same time. The simpleness is from the single color and basic shapes. The interesting part is all of the details on the branches and the bright sky in the background.

Invading the Sunset

During this sunset, it was partly cloudy. Towards the beginning of the sunset, there were several big clouds that were in the way. I hoped they didn't ruin my sunset. As the sun set, the clouds started to go over my head and out of my pictures. Then as the sunset continued, I was happy to have the clouds because they started to change colors and add to the sunset.

Reflecting Tree

While waiting for the sun to set, I looked and found some water. I positioned myself so I was able to get the full reflection of the huge oak tree. I like how even though we are reflecting the tree, we can still make out the detail on it. I can almost see the curve on the trunk and I can see the tiniest of details on the branches and twigs.

Pink Sunset

Today is the starting of my next theme, sunsets. I posted some of my pictures last week, but I have plenty more. I took pictures during two sunsets. This sunset, along with the last sunset pictures, is more pink than the next sunset. The next sunset starts very yellow then ends in a very dark red. 

Hungry Bird

A few days after I took pictures of the yellow bird eating, I saw this gray bird eating. I was able to figure out which type of bird this is, it is a Clark's Nutcracker. Clark's Nutcracker has a special pouch under its tongue to hold seeds long distances. This is why it is eating these seeds, it will probably have some now then save some more for later.

Reflection Sunset

During the same sunset as yesterday's picture, I saw this little pool of water on the side of the road. I crouched down as low as I could, trying the get the trees in the reflection and took this shot. Focusing on the tree, we are able to see the details on the tree without actully looking at it. Then you move to the outside of the pool of water and see the fuzzy edges of the water where it meets with the grass.

Golden Sunset

As the sunset on this day, it caused the clouds to change color. They were a soft white in the light blue sky that turned to a light yellow then a dark yellow as the sunset continued. Of this picture and the Volcanic Sunset picture, I like the Volcanic Sunset picture better becuause the clouds are a deeper shade of red and the mountain adds another layer to the picture. In this picture, the silhouette is the trees, which are nice but they don't make the clouds look like volcanic ash.

Snow Chips

As temperatures dropped and some precipitation was in the air, these snow chips formed. They felt like a mixture of snow and ice. It was a hard outer shell with a softer middle. The snow chips didn't fall everywhere. There was just enough to cover this part of the leaf. If you were able to scroll out of the picture, you wouldn't see any more snow chips.

Looking Around

After finishing all of the nuts that were on this branch, the bird started to look around. He looked around, trying to find a branch with more nuts on it, then flew off. I was surprised that the bird barely noticed me. I was standing below him taking these pictures for about 10 minutes before he moved onto another tree and I couldn't get a good shot of him.