Posts in Category: nature
Flowers, animals, plants, trees and other outside things.
Pelican taking off near Merritt Island
I was rollerblading along the bridge/overpass/park connecting Florida to Merritt Island (they’ve kinda got a park/fishing pier along the bottom edge of part of the bridge) and saw this Pelican. I caught him a few times, but I think this was one of the better shots. I’ve got a nice one of him(?) standing still, but it’s boring compared to this one.
That’s at 1/400th of a second, but we can still see the motion at the tips of his wings.
Ox cart in Costa Rica
We were on our way to Quepos from Jaco in a taxi, we had waited a few hours for the bus and after seeing none heading south, we grabbed a taxi. This is along the main road that runs near the Pacific Coast. While we were unsuccessful in taking a bus down to Quepos, we were able to catch a directo bus back to San Jose but were able to get off near Jaco and walk the mile(?) back. This is an old photo from my second or third trip to Costa Rica, I’ve always loved this particular photo.
I’m not sure if I took it with a film camera or a digital camera and had them converted to digital at the time of developing, the photo EXIF information is vague but has the word Kodak (that’s who would have done the conversion but I also had a digital pocket Kodak camera at that time).
Leaves backlit at the Botanical Gardens
Taken at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor, Michigan while I was experimenting with some closeup photos. I’m taking the photo with the sun behind it, shining through the greenhouse-type building that I was in.
I chose this one for a Photo Friday challenge with the topic of Patterns. I hard a had time deciding so I actually uploaded two, the next photo has leaf patterns too.
Leaf magnified at the Botanical Gardens
Taken at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor, Michigan while I was experimenting with some closeup photos. It almost looks like there is something crawling on top of it. I’m taking the photo sort of from below as the sun is above the greenhouse-type building that I was in.
Barbed wire on the road to Cabuya
Some empty tree land (farm land?) on the road from Montezuma to Cabuya (on the Pacific side of Costa Rica). I was just walking to see what I might find (I was specifically looking for some more waterfalls).
I thought it was extra green around here so I was taking a lot of photos and started playing with the focus a bit.
Big caterpillar on the picnic table
I was hesitant to tag this with insect (isn’t 6 legs the rule?), but I googled it and got “A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly or moth. A butterfly is a diurnal insect. So, a caterpillar is a baby insect.”
I think I shot this at one of the parks along Hines Drive or maybe it’s the seat of a bench in front of Hamtramck City Hall (I’d eat lunch outside at the park when I worked in Hamtramck) but it doesn’t look bright enough to be directly outside (even with clouds). I know I shot it in May or June of 2010 but I’m just not sure where I took it…
Looking down the zip line of doom!
“As I’m about to go careening down this zip line, dark foreboding clouds appear in the direction that I’m heading”.
Actually, I don’t think I had any thoughts of the sort. I was very excited to be doing this again (I had done it a few years before). Mark and I were driving from the North towards San Jose, Costa Rica and I saw the zip lines so we stopped so I could go for a ride.
This is an older photo, but I’ve always loved how it turned out. Taken with an old Kodak LS420 camera, I think it was only 2 MegaPixels and it was my first small digital camera.
Very Very Green
I just really like how the green looked in this photo. Somewhere above Montezuma Upper Falls in Costa Rica.
Seagull in motion
I thought this one was going to get away from me I caught him just as he took off. Downtown Detroit at the Riverwalk.
I liked the interesting bug
I don’t have any idea what kind of bug this is or what kind of flowers. But I thought the bug came out okay for an iPhone 4 camera and the focus was interesting. There were some better looking flowers, but I couldn’t get the bug to pose over there.
This was taken on Hines Drive near Telegraph. There is a bunch of flowers (and wild stuff) in a plot on the far side of the soccer field closer to telegraph.