Pink lady’s slipper and painted trillium appear in May.
Category Archives: Plants
Blue Flag Iris
One of my favorite wild flowers, the blue flag iris is common in marshes and bogs.
Reflected
Pickerel Weed reflected in the water along Great Meadow Stream.
Lily Pads
Lily pads and fall reflections in a small pond.
Dew and Thistle
Dew on a thistle on a fall morning.
Mushroom in Log
A mushroom grows in a decaying log.
Simplicity in the Snow
Snow reduces this composition to just a couple of simple elements. A young beech in the Kennebec Highlands.
Lighter on the trail…
I’m as passionate about hiking as I am about nature photography. My primary camera body is the full-frame Nikon D850, a high resolution (45 megapixels) DSLR that produces incredibly detailed images. Since I like going on hikes anywhere from 2 to 10 hours long, the weight of the D850 becomes a real problem, so I decided to get the Nikon Z50, a very light mirrorless body, along with two incredibly light lenses that will cover virtually any subject I find on the trail.
This shot is one of the first I made with “Z,” and I’m very pleased with the quality. Seems there are a lot of mushrooms popping up early this year. The unusual, amoeba-like shape of this one caught my eye as I was hiking around the stream on the Sanders Hill loop in the Kennebec Highlands.
Black and White Reed
Water droplets on a pond reed–this time in black and white.
Pond Reed
Late fall pond reed after early morning rain.