Happy Sunday!
I have three images of Fall colors, (sort of.)
I shot these last week when I was in Maquoketa.
The Maquoketa River after it has passed through the Hurstville Dam.
This image is from the new recreational development called Prairie Creek.
I can’t pass up a bare tree sitting in a fertile field.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy TGI Friday for all my friends who are still working.
After I finished up my photo shoot in Maquoketa yesterday, I decided to drive out past the Duck Pond. This is what I found on my way out-of-town. This was a corn field that hadn’t done very well and had been chopped into silage. It was flooded and a family of Trumpeter swans were picking corn off the ground. This is the male of the family. I was surprised at how close they let me get to them. I guess the pickings were better than their fear of me. Especially because I stayed in my car.
I was happy to see the four young signets from this past season. The dad kept a close eye on me while the others continued to feed.
Farther away across the field (lake) was another family of swans with three signets. I couldn’t get all four of them in the shot. Interestingly as I went past the Duck Pond it was a full of water as I can ever remember and not one species of wildlife was in it.
About one hundred yards down the road was this cornfield under water. I certainly feel bad for the farmers of the area. They work so hard getting the ground ready, planting, maintaining. Have a reasonably good growing season and then when it’s time to harvest their crop this happens. Difficult lively hood. We are grateful for them.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Thursday!
A great day today, which is why I’m late getting this posted. I normally like to post in the morning but ran out of time this morning.
I had some follow-up photos for my professional assignment, I needed to take in Preston and Maquoketa and I needed to be in Preston at 9:30 a.m. I rolled in there at 9:32 a.m. and may have exceeded the posted speed limit occasionally.
Then I had a very enjoyable lunch with a dear Friend in Maquoketa. We visited for about an hour and a half. We are both recently retired so it was fun discussing the experiences and feelings we’re both having with retirement.
As I was driving around the area taking pictures for the project I was amazed by the flooding in the farm fields around Maquoketa. Some images from that at another time.
The above image is what is called “selective color.” It is frowned upon by most serious photographers. Well I take my photography seriously but I’m the only one who must like it and I thought this image worked better using selective color. 🙂
Most of these images were made in the Millwork District. It is a fascinating place and I plan on spending more time there in the future.
I left this building art out of my post yesterday. I didn’t mean to so I include it today.
Enjoy the rest of your day and be careful.
Happy Wednesday!
Dubuque over the last few years has encouraged and commissioned “building art.”
It has been my intent to photograph some of this building art and finally last week I made some images of my favorite buildings. So, I have five images of building art for today. Click on any image to reveal a larger more detailed image.
This building was too large to capture in one image without getting a lot of distracting elements in the frame. So I took two shots and then stitched them together in Photoshop. Well that was my original intent but the algorithms of Photoshop failed me this time so I did it manually. I won’t tell you how much time I spent on this image but it was a lot. Still it was great practice.
I really like this art work but there were many electrical lines and cables running through it. When you’re standing on the street just looking at the art I didn’t really notice the lines until I got it in post processing. I spent over an hour on this removing all the lines. 😦
Another one of my favorite building art image.
There was no angle I could try that would get me a clean shot of this work. So it is (as they say) what it is.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Tuesday!
We have had so much rain over the last six-days (and more rain today) that our back yard has become more of a lake than a yard.
Yesterday, when I looked out the patio door there must have been 30 or more robins and common grackles in our back yard hunting for worms and taking baths. This rather rotund robin spent a lot of time bathing himself. I finally decided to get my telephoto lens and capture some of the fun.
This common grackle was looking for a private bathing area but most of them were already taken. I must have spent 20 minutes watching the birds play. Of course when I started making images most of the birds took off.
Mr. Robin was creating quite the shower with his fluttering about.
My yard looks more like a hay-field. Still to wet to run the mower over it.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Monday!
When I was out with my camera last week I tried to find some fall colors in the trees with little success.
I haven’t been back out since, because we have had 5 inches of rain in the last five days. The ground is saturated and sky is a dull gray.
I’ve seen this tree many times but never paid any attention to the fire hydrant until this time. I found it odd having a fire hydrant and a tree in an open area.
Nothing special about these images. Just felt good to be out and about with my camera.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Sunday!
I took a stroll up and down the Great River Walk (Dubuque) last week and made a few images of wildlife that I enjoy photographing. I have four images today.
This Great Egret was actually at the 16th Street Basin. Although the city has made an effort to clean the debris from the area it remains inundated with all sorts of garbage. I cannot believe the insensitivity of some with regards to this wonderful place.
You know, if you’ve followed my photography for very long, that I cannot pass up a chance at photographing a Blue Heron. The River Walk is high enough and just far enough to allow a great shot with a long lens without stressing the bird too much.
At one end of the River Walk is the barge staging area where they put together barges and load them up. I had to capture these gulls taking advantage of this temporary resting place.
On my way back I found this guy resting. So like the one before I had to take the shot.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
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