I was going to title this post, “It’s something,” to reflect that I’m making the barest effort to have a little content here, but in looking at my list of previous post titles, I find that not only have I used it before, I have started way too many posts with, “It’s.” So I’m not. But I still didn’t have any good ideas for what to name it…
I’ve
In case you missed it, there was a post specific to moon photography last week, if you were looking to pursue that. This will deal with other kinds of night photography.
Note, too, that a significant amount of my macro work and even quite a few videos are all shot at night, mostly because that’s when certain subjects appear, but also because it’s easier to get close to those same subjects
Poking around tonight, I spotted the first eastern spadefoot (Scaphiopus holbrookii) of the season, and so commemorated this event, naturally.
This one is partially backed into its burrow, which is where they often sit, simply waiting for food like crickets to walk by. It’s amusing (honestly, a little frustrating) that this actually works I’ve sat outside
Now that the bloggarootie seems to be back to perfectly (well, nominally) functioning order, I thought, Should I go ahead and squeeze one last post and a handful of photos out before the day is up? and naturally followed with, Why not? I mean, the photos have already been shot, of a decent subject too – it’s not like I’m forcing anything (unlike, you know, certain
Now it’s time to let it go. And we do so with the month-end abstract of course. March left us with two, to split between all of us. Evenly, so don’t be claiming more than your share. They look like this:
This wouldn’t have been half as good without the stippled coloration, which I believe is a breast feather from a male wood duck –
[Technically, this was not written on the proper day, since I was trying to login to write this one when I discovered the problems with the site that destroyed the entire day, but we’ll just gaslight ourselves into believing it was and history will never be the wiser.]
It’s an interesting holiday today, with a fascinating history that I strongly suggest you check out, since it’s
Originally, I was going to do this about night photography in general, with a subset of photographing the moon itself, then realized that the moon alone had enough for a full post. So other kinds of night photography will be along in a later post, perhaps next week. No promises though.
As a bare minimum for chasing moon photos, I have to recommend a firm tripod and a remote shutter release, because
Is this going to go on all spring? Well, so be it – I can cope.
Glanced out the kitchen window while making lunch and saw a bold splash of white where there had been none before. The view of this particular spot on the edge of The Bay wasn’t good from that angle, nor from the back deck, so I slipped out front and went around the end of the garage, which was more than adequate.
This
Going out early this morning (really early, last-night kind of early,) I found that the Magic Bucket of Variety, AKA my outdoor wastebasket, had lured in another friend.
Initially, I confidently proclaimed this a brown snake, but several of the identifying characteristics aren’t really there. Eventually (while writing this post,) I found the
So, this is the other video that I’ve been trying to finish up, the notorious one mentioned in previous posts. It did not help in the slightest that, before getting the chance to edit together the clips, I continued to add more to them.
But yeah, the discoveries on the property keep right on happening. It’s certainly not boring in any way. Well, at least not for us…
You can see that
