Basic Guidelines: Nature based subject matter. Please, declare captive subjects. Keep your image at/under 700 pixels on the long axis for in-line viewing and try to keep file size under 300kb. Note that this includes photos hosted off-site at Flicker, Photobucket, your own site, etc. Feel free to link your image to a larger version. In the strictest sense, nature photography should not include hand of man elements. Please refrain from images with obvious buildings or large man made structures like roads, fences, walls. Try to minimize man made features and keep the focus on nature. Are you new to this thread? We post one image per week. For more details on guidelines please read this helpful information. The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. We've been gathering and traveling for 2 years now. In nature, no matter where you are, you're on a map and a path of some kind. It might be topographic and modern, though well worn from use. Or, perhaps some ancient cartographic scratchings only seen in a vision quest. Thanks to everyone who has ever come this way, whether to participate or watch from a distance. Many have left footsteps here and none are forgotten. Where are we going? Who knows? Let's find out. Happy birthday Monday in Nature. Walk softly and carry a sharp lens.
I applaud Laura for getting us & MiN to 2 years. But today rather than walking softly, I will shoot up Yellow Rockets for us all.
A quick shot of young bucks taken from my patio. It happened and ended quickly and is not really in focus, but I wanted to share.
This past week, while out in the bush cutting firewood, I stopped to wipe the sweat from my brow and have a drink of water and happened to look up to see this owl looking down at me. I only had my P&S camera with me so forgive the quality. I don't know how long the owl had been watching me, it continued to keep an eye on me from its perch for the remainder of the afternoon and was still there when I packed up my tools and left.
Laura, thanks for your dedication to keeping MIN going. Checking out all of the contributions to this thread ensures that I drop by PN at least once a week.
Gordon B that's a beautifully composed shot of a barred owl! Here's a shot of a baby armadillo that has taken the less travelled road of is siblings - that is, he is out in the daylight and totally unafraid of human presence.
A ruffed grouse. It is a popular game bird around here. Hunters spend tens of thousands on ATVs and rifles and countless hours driving bush roads to bag a few each fall season. I have done none of that yet still have managed to kill 5 over the years. How? I washed the windows on the house at what I guess was the wrong time of the year. I give the broken-necked victims to my hunting neighbours who have usually arrived home empty handed.
Rick, thanks I found the owl's curiosity somewhat comical. Nice shot of the young armadillo. So cute. John, I bag a few grouse every year via the same Windex methodology. Only in my case I do not give them away, they end up as bacon wrapped grouse breast on my BBQ.
Happy birthday to Monday in Nature and thanks to Laura for getting the whole thing off the ground and keeping it going each week. This is Goosenecks State Park. It's about 40 minutes from Monument Valley. Canon XSi, 10-18 STM, f/13, 1/100s
Laura, thanks for all you have done on MiN. Here is a couple more (very young) Canada geese I came across the other day.
A close look at a leaf, usually eclipsed by flowers, of a bird of paradise plant. Taken with the macro function of my new Fujifilm X-Pro1 camera and f/1.4 35 mm lens. --Sally
Laura, I too thank you for starting each week with good humor and promptly. I look foward to Mondays photos....good work, all.
I think we've got the best frog hatch in years along the creek and bog here in central NJ so I'm taking advantage of these beauties while they last. Nikon D7100 180mm AF-D f2.8 @ f4 and ISO400 Enjoy!
I like the simplicity of Honeysuckle. This is probably one of the invasive (locally) Asian vine species.
Happy Birthday to Mondays in Nature. Thanks to Laura for her good work. Here is a nice patch of Indian paintbrush.
Wow, 2 years, great job Laura and everyone! I found these bugs hanging around on some overgrown grass, they are quite small, and I had to take quite a dew shots before I got a decent image. For the life of me though, I can't identify the type, sorry.
Lots of beautiful shots. Here is one I took in Candiac Quebec yesterday. Sigma 10-20mm 1/80s f8 - late in the afternoon and a condition that only lasted about 15 minutes.
Thank you Laura for hosting Monday in Nature Weekly Photo. I am not sure what plant we are looking at, but the leaves display interesting patterns. Photographed in a hotel garden in Boise, Idaho, after a thunderstorm. Identification help would be appreciated.(Whoops, the title should be plant leaves, not plant leave).
Glenn those leaves are probably a variety of Hosta, looking lush and unusually intact - they rarely escape the attention of hungry slugs & snails. Hoping to avoid the worst of traffic, I went looking for some lesser-trodden paths during the long weekend, which led me to this sleeping dragon:
Thank you Paul and John. When I use Google, I find references to both hosta and hostea plants, the photos of which appear to be the same. The garden looked well tended, so no snails or slugs were allowed to ruin the aesthetics of the leaves.
Not so much a Road as a trail over the Waves - I guess you might say the Seagull (Jonathan perhaps) was 'photo-bombing' my wave-break shot! Derek Isaacs
