Nature - David Mathre Photography

Eight-Years Ago (14-October-2011) — New Jersey

Backyard Autumn Nature in New Jersey.

This young deer thought it was hiding in the bushes. Looks like some type of wound on its belly.

Deer hiding in the bushes. Image taken with a Nikon D700 camera and 70-300 VR lens (ISO 1250, 300 mm, f/5.6, 1/125 sec). (David J Mathre)

Sunday (13-October-2019) — New Jersey

Backyard Autumn Nature in New Jersey

I forgot to set the air-dancer scarecrow on the patio last night. The deer came up and ate leaves off the hot pepper plants in the GrowTower (but left the hot peppers).

Daily Electric Energy Used (55.2 kWh) from Sense and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (34.4 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Less sun than yesterday. Overall a net deficit of 20.8 kWh.

Weekly Electric Energy Used (365 kWh) from Sense and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (190 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. A cloudy week. Overall a net deficit of 175 kWh.

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Five-Years Ago (13-October-2019) — New Jersey

Backyard Autumn Nature in New Jersey.

Cloudy autumn 180 degree panorama view of my backyard five-years ago. This was before the siding was replaced and the deck removed and replaced with a patio. Thirty-six images were taken using an Astro programmable rotating head on my tripod. Thirteen of the images were used to create the composite panorama (14006 x 4044 pixels). In a separate set 120 were taken and used to create a rotating time-lapse video.

Backyard Panorama. Composite of 13 images taken with a Nikon D700 camera and 28 mm f/1.8 lens (ISO 200, 28 mm, f/8, 1/100 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and AutoPano Giga Pro. (David J Mathre)

Twelve-Years Ago (13-October-2007) — New Jersey

Autumn Backyard Nature in New Jersey.

A fat Grey Catbird eating wild grapes for lunch.

Grey Sparrow like bird with wild grapes. (David J Mathre) — Grey Catbird feasting on wild grapes. Image taken with a Nikon D2xs camera and 80-400 mm VR lens (ISO 400, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/640 sec). (David J Mathre)

Saturday (12-October-2019) — New Jersey

Autumn Outdoor Yard Projects.

Day two with the DR Field and Brush mower. Cleared the south-east wildflower meadow in the backyard. Ordered new V-belts for the roto-tiller. Need to repair fence poles the deer broke, and put down some cover crop seed. Some of these activities were recorded on a Garmin VIRB-360 camera for a Time-lapse video.

Daily Electric Energy Used (56.8 kWh) from Sense and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (38.8 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. More sun than yesterday. Overall a net deficit of 18.0 kWh.