David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum). Thanks to Mary Sperley for help with the identification. I remember seeing them when growing up in the woods in Minnesota. I didn’t know that I have them in my backyard — and that they are native wildflowers that apparently the deer don’t eat.
Daily walkabout. Flowers and Plants captured with a Nikon D810a camera and 105 mm f/2.8 VR macro lens.
Click on the above image to see the individual images in the slideshow in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
A groundhog using a rebar toothpick to clean its teeth. A squirrel with a nut, and a robin in the rain.
The cost of my new morning model is that she gets to nibble on the clover in the wildflower patch that I planted last fall. She is up every morning just about the time that the sun rises. So far she is very patient as I change cameras and lenses. I have been cleaning and testing the equipment I didn’t have with me on the Semester at Sea voyage. I had forgotten how big and heavy a DSLR and big telephoto lens can be. The real test will be the quality of these images vs. ones with the mirrorless kit that I used for the last 4 months. Image taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 800, 600 mm, f/4, 1/500 sec).
Cluster of Rhododendron Flowers after an early morning rainstorm. Image taken with a Leica T camera and 23 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 100, 23 mm, f/5.6, 1/500 sec).
