photos from last Sundays drive in the woods

I'm hoping to spend a few years and end up with enough 600x600 shots to have a different one for each day of the year in a rotating display.

Here's the latest:

Water Moccasin






Sandbog Deathcamas a.k.a. Snakeroot

What's funny is that it almost makes more sense to swap the titles of those pics...

Nice shots Mike!

:-)

Some of the flowers I photograph are flowers that I visit every year and sometimes I don't get a satisfying shot and I wait another year to go out and see if I can do better.


The wildlife is of course wild... so you take what you can get.

I got a pretty good shot of a pymgy Rattlesnake last Sunday too... but the light was gone... and everything looks flat so I just archived it as a helpful for identifying type picture. That little guy was only 9" long... and he got angry and attacked me. I was laughing at the situation... but I also scooted backwards real fast.

The idea is to highlight all the local fauna and flora and my wife wrote me a web server application that automatically rotates the images by date. The goal is to make it free standing so that any local environmental or education website can use it as a display. It's part of my big picture volunteer work I like to do.



Hi Bub, I have one of those fancy DSLR cameras with the pro grade lenses. It's a Canon 5d MkII. I like using it because I can hang the really nice lenses on it. I grew up in photography and started with full manual basic gear. It's a little embarassing to walk around with fancy camera gear... but I use the heck out of it and it takes pictures that I like. I figure that since my vision gets worse each year that I should use good optics and enjoy what I can while I can.



Thanks for taking a look everyone.



best regards,
mike
 

mike_mccue

The wildlife is of course wild... so you take what you can get.

Very true ... I got this shot on Mount Evans Road in Colorado. IIRC it's the highest paved road in the U.S.. It's one of my favorite pictures I've taken.

I have a Panasonic DMC-FZ28. It's a few years old and not comparable to yours, but I am impressed with the pictures it takes when the lighting is good. Especially close-ups. And it takes HD video too which I use it for more than stills. My wife competes in Dressage competitions a lot and I use it to shoot all her shows.

That's a great shot. The rim light on the velvet is *deluxe* and the texture on the snow pack is really distinctive.

best,
mike

That snakeroot is a beauty!  I planted some wildflowers last November in a small section of our property I'm trying to develop into wildflower meadow.  It's right by the road, so I'm hoping others will enjoy it too.  I can't believe how fun it's been this summer to walk thru that several times a week and see what's blooming now, and collect more seeds to keep it spreading.  I should take one of the photographers in my family to get some good pictures...problem is, I usually do that when I need to get away.  Anyway, great photos as always.  Thanks for sharing them.