Lunch at the lake January 16

Here are a couple of photos from the lake today. The last one of the ducks has a mallard, and what looks like a hybrid between a mallard and a wood duck, at least. Nobody in the office was quite sure what he is! The 40 D rocks!

More from Silver Lake Park

What I see at O dark thirty

I got up early for me and was out the door before sunrise, heading to Bombay Hook. After there, I went to the park at Silver Lake.


This sunrise was awesome. I wish I was there 15 minutes earlier. I guess I should have gotten up at O dark 15!



I was sitting on the road watching a tree stump in the water, waiting for the marsh hawk to re-land on the stump, when I looked up the road and saw this guy crossing it, carefully.



I love the green here.




This Great Blue Heron was at Silver Lake Park. I was shooting pics of him for 15 minutes, till he flew into a tree and stopped fishing, plus my hands were cold!

Enough with the Hawk

These photos make me glad I'm not a small mammal!

Hawk II

Lunch at the lake

I took this photo yesterday at the lake of an immature broad wing hawk. He's magnficent!

Lunch at the lake

More Canon 40D goodness. I like the diagonal and the electric green on the mallards.

Lunch at the lake with Canon 40D

The new camera rocks! There were a bunch of robins at the park today, many of them were feasting on holly berries. It was shirt sleeve weather and a nice day to walk around.

Sunrise on Hazletville Road

I liked the colors and silhoettes here. I suppose I could edit out the power lines and crop some more the black off the bottom, but I like this as is too

The Lone Stalk

The light was cool on this single reed, it was at least 10-20 feet from it's closest neighbor.

Birds from Bombay Hook

Some cool bird shots from Bombay Hook. I really need at least a 400mm lense to get what I want, a 600mm would be better. Since were talking several grand, that'll have to wait!




The geese jumping up for some reason. I like the goose on the right, whose head can't be seen because of the way his wings are wrapped around.



Great blue heron near the structure from my last BH post. I wonder if he's the same one. I took this photo through a fence, you can kind of see the pattern if you know to look for it.



This is a classic eagle pose. Too bad he was so totally back lit, I had to pump up the light in the shot. It's not that great, but it's still a cool eagle shot.

Bombay Hook first thing in the morning

I got up early to day to see what I could get into photographically. I headed for BH hoping for big flocks of Snow geese jumping up. I got these instead.

This is as close as I've ever gotten to the way the sun shines through the seeds on the reeds at dusk, or dawn. I love the transient moment of the light, it feels nostalgic and dreamy to me....





I liked the layers on this one



Frost on the plant is cool!

Final Wedding photos

I liked this photo of them kissing and dancing in mom's living room!



Andrea hand knit the socks for Uli and wanted to show her pride in them. The ducks are a recurring theme. They like rubber ducks!

Wedding pics

Here are some shots from the wedding at my mom's house. Givent he number of people in the room for the actual ceremony, I'm thinking these photo's aren't half bad!








Here is a photo from the ring exchange portion of the wedding. Father Jack did an awesome job officiating for the wedding.