David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Views of nature and the natural world. Plants, animals, and wildlife from around the world.
A short time-lapse video taken with a Fuji XT1 camera and Bower 8 mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. Viking boat ride in Rovaniemi. Like Hitchcock, I did a cameo at the end.
Kermit the Bullfrog in a pond at the Sourland Mountain Preserve. Image taken with a Nikon D4 camera and 400 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 560, 400 mm, f/8, 1/400 sec).
Young Buck sticking its Tongue out. Note it has “mile-a-minute” vine stuck to its side. Image taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR II lens (ISO 280, 200 mm, f/2.8, 1/200 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro 6 and Photoshop CS5.
How and when the mile-a-minute vine (invasive weeds) were transported into my yard. Within a few years the vines took over much of my backyard – killing many trees. The vines are more aggressive than the wild grape vines and poison ivy vines. It has taken significant effort to reclaim the yard.
Sunrise Starburst Through Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, California. Composite of 5 images taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 14-24 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 100, 24 mm, f/22, 1/15 to 1/250 sec) processed using NIK HDR Efex Pro.
A combination of still and time-lapse videos of the Night Sky and Milky Way viewed from the grounds of the CARMA Radio Telescope Array. CARMA is the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter Wave Astronomy run by Caltech, Berkeley, Univ Indiana Urbana, and Univ Maryland. It is located in the High Desert at Cedar Flats in the Inyo Mountains near Bishop, California. The research facility was shut down in 2015.