Phall Pholiage Photos! October 10, 2012
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: Autumn, barn, beaver pond, Bennington VT, bittersweet, Canon 24-105mm f/4 L US ISM lens, Canon 24mm f3.5L TS-E II lens, Canon 400mm f/5.6 L series lens, Conway MA, deerfield river, Elliot, fall foliage, Gizmo, Hawley MA, Massachusetts, Monroe MA, October, Ollie, Searsburg VT, Vermont, Vt Route 9
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More colors from this sub-optimal (but still pretty cool) season.
Locally, some back roads:
A Conway beaver pond:
Bittersweet on a barn in Hawley:
A few Deerfield river shots:
The real color, though, was higher up in the hills. I’d seen The Change coming to Southern Vermont and headed that-a-way, passing through the heights of Rowe, MA on the drive, and stopped off at a seldom-visited beaver pond for a couple of quickies:
I especially liked this shot of orange jelly fungus popping out of a fallen spruce along the pond’s edge:
All of these are from Elliot, bless his little mechanisms.
In Vermont, the best colors were along Route 9 between Searsburg on the east and Bennington on the west:
Of that last bunch, the more expansive views were captured by Ollie, the last two are from Gizmo.
This year, Autumn has been a finicky visitor and seems anxious to be moving on.
Oh well, let her go, I say. Can’t stop her anyway.
I may head farther afield in the next few days, searching for a few last kisses before Bleak November arrives.
Rooftopia. December 18, 2011
Posted by littlebangtheory in climbing.Tags: bouldering, Cokin P-holder, deerfield river, Rooftopia, Singh-Ray Darryl Benson Reverse ND Grad filter, Vermont, vignetting
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I spent part of this afternoon up at Rooftopia, a tumbling conflagration of stones and spaces hunkered down along the Deerfield river just over the Vermont line from me.
I’m enamored of this particular stone for its clean sweep of overhanging terrain, and just had to play with it for a bit:
It’s really out of my league, but I can dream, can’t I?? 🙂
The vignetting in this photo is caused by my Cokin P-Holder, which really wasn’t made for full-frame wide lenses, but I’m in no position to upgrade to the 4X6 filters which would eliminate this problem. Besides, I’m not all that displeased by the framing effect rendered by my technical incompetence.
I’d love to get a posse of strong climbers up here so I can let them play while I photograph the action. It’s a beautiful spot, and I bet they’d enjoy themselves.
Changing Seasons. March 23, 2010
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: corn stubble, horse, moss, pines, Spring, Vermont
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Between the snows of Winter and the blossoms of Spring sets the season of Mud, with its gray skies and awakening pallette.
Receding snows reveal last season’s corn stubble:
A horse roots for green shoots on a southern Vermont farm:
…and a patch of moss springs to life in the first warm days of the season:
It’s not fully here yet, but it’s coming.
Welcome To Vermont; Please Go Home. January 18, 2010
Posted by littlebangtheory in Politics and Society.Tags: class 4 highway, snow shoes, Vermont
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Not marked “Dead End,” a Vermont road nonetheless terminates in an abrupt snow bank, with an explanatory sign:
“Class 4 Highway beyond this point.”
I got out and stomped around a bit, but saw nothing more than what’s in this picture.
Apparently, “class 4” refers to a rather narrow person on snow shoes.
A Change. September 16, 2009
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: autumn colors, Green Mountains, Vermont
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There’s been a change in the air, a change in the light.
It’s becoming Autumn.
The trees are changing too, beginning in the swamps and bogs and moving up the hillsides.
In the Green Mountains of Southern Vermont, this past weekend:
The skies were a uniform New England Grey, but the trees were doing their best to liven things up:
With a little luck on the weather – some rain without a ton of wind and an end-of-September warm spell – we could get lucky.
If we do, I promise to share it with you.
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