I’m a little later than intended, but it’s still the 31st so we’re still good. However, my choices for the end of the month (and by extension, the end of the year) abstracts are not up to the occasion, despite my recent attempts. They are:
I mean, how could it be the end of the month abstract without water drops of some kind, eh? Yeah, I know I do them too often,
Surprisingly so, like about 23°c, with even some sun for a little while. And don’t ask me how they know this when they’re mostly submerged, but the turtles were taking full advantage of it.
These two eastern painted turtles (Chrysemys picta picta) were perhaps a little longer than your palm – hard to judge while out in the middle of the pond, while
It’s now been sixteen years since the first post right here on the ol’ Walkabout Blogoblob, and that means it’s time for the annual podcast! [This is unfortunately accurate, for the past few years at least, but I’m intending to change that at least a little.] So let’s get right into it, shall we?
Walkabout podcast – 16 Years
I’m running late, partially due
This is just a little reminder, for your sake and ours: Nature photography benefits from doing things correctly. Today, we’re going to talk about shooting through windshields. As easy as it might be, as convenient as it might be, despite the fact that your subject may not permit your attempt to avoid it by opening a door or window and leaning out, don’t shoot through windshields.
And so we come to the last of this year’s topic, with the realization as I type this that I don’t have next year’s lined up yet – but I’m typing this more than a week before it will appear, so I have two weeks, give or take, to contemplate the problem.
For now, we have a critter that’s appeared here just once, though I’ve photographed them twice
It’s a bit cold today, but that’s to be expected for the holiday, right? No, not the winter solstice, though it is indeed that, or at least it was at 09:20 UTC, so the daylight hours will be lengthening from here on out (until late June, anyway.) But the real holiday is Get Around To Planting Those Damn Things Again And See If it Works This Time, and so, I’m
This is unfortunately going to post the day following when the photos were taken, unless I type really fast. But the lightning app on my smutphone alerted me to the possibility of a light show, and I trekked the many kilometers (less than 2) down to the waterfront to see what was happening.
First off, I’ll note that the app is notoriously inaccurate for this area strikes were
It was definitely a tad foggy this morning around Walkabout Estates Plus, and we elected to go down to the waterfront to see how thick it was down there.
It was.
I was thinking that it might be moody and shadowy, but this surpassed my expectations – the water practically disappeared immediately, because the air was still so the water surface was smooth and reflecting only the
We’re coming down to the wire now, especially since I already know what I’m going to use for the last entry. This one is kind of a last-minute changeup, since I’d originally slotted a bird in here but found that none of the single-appearance birds that I had in the list were wowing me, so we’re going with a plant instead.
And there’s a chance this has even appeared on
I was down in Walkabout Studios a short while ago…
[A brief explanation, because now’s the time to do it: the new house came with a finished basement room, partially below grade, that even has an outside door, and I immediately snagged this as my office/studio/lab/workshop/makerspace, because it’s largely sound isolated and has windows for ventilation and because
