Laura Weishaupt

Walking on the beach in a stiff breeze is a good way to shake off cross country travel.

This time next week I'll be leaning against some driftwood, watching the sun set into the Pacific.

Counting down the days 'till I'm deep in the redwoods hugging the big trees.

Cake should be part of any birthday party. Here's a landscape cake that I think most will appreciate. I know how hard it is to open a thread week after week, year after year. Thanks Leslie.

Counting down the days till I'm walking on the sunny side of the dunes in the late afternoon.

Paul, It's always nice to see your images, regardless of the magic, glitches, or Voodoo that make them appear. :rolleyes:

I'm counting down the days 'till I'm back on this beach.

Taken a few years ago, but I haven't changed.

Sunrise on the first day of Spring looked like light at the end of Winter's dark tunnel.

Not long after I took last weeks image the sun peeked through clouds and temperatures crawled above freezing. The ice clad branches melted into an intense rain shower in the woods. The sparkle was gone in less than 10 minutes.

It's nice to see someone else photographing teeth. I once found a dismembered porcupine carcass with teeth in the jaw. They are similar to the beaver molar. Edwin's staining gives a nice effect. I opted for fungi, of course. Phlebia tremellosa is beautiful close up.

The world looks and sounds very different when each leaf, twig, stem, branch, rock and blade of anything is coated with 1/4 inch of ice. This is the color version.

Depends on the end result you're looking for. Light is usually fairly dim while snow is falling. At the end of a snow the sky often lightens up as the clouds thin. If you shoot from a distance, you'll shoot through a lot of snow, so keep that in mind. Sometimes being close doesn't show many falling flakes, so some distant or darker background will help the flakes be seen. I think of photographing falling snow as any moving object. High ISO and shutter speeds in excess of 1/1000 sec. F stop will vary based on what you want, so play with it. Here are 2 examples of shooting trees with falling snow. The birches are about 50 ft away and the other trees are closer to 100 feet away. I manually focused "out there" to get any snow in focus. I don't have anything with beech, so use your imagination. The snow was falling moderately, but this gives you an idea of what focusing through a lot of snow in the air looks like. Image one: ISO 800, f5.0, 1/1600 sec, 105mm, taken at about 2pm with ambient light. #2 Birches, ISO 500, f6.3, 1/1000 sec 400mm taken at 9:30 am with ambient light. You need to think abut how you want your image to look. You can do this at night with a flash, if you wish. Have fun with it and good luck.

I guess better binary than super nova.:rolleyes: Sometimes the landscape gets up and becomes a skyscape in motion.

Ahhhhhhhhh, how sweet. Thank you in a thousand ways. Greens in the midst of winter are welcome. Here's one back atcha. No post, just ice cold nature.

It's Groundhog Day! There's a large crowd of nutty folks outside in the very cold darkness of morning up in Punxsutawney. They're making merry and waiting for the big fat rodent to make predictions about the weather. It's all goofy fun. The groundhogs here at the homestead are snug in their dens with no plans to emerge any time soon. Smart critters. In the meantime the ice piles up.

Maybe Dieter's sunrise can melt the Delaware River ice.

Greetings, I haven't opened MiN for quite some time. Perhaps our friends on the west coast are still sleeping. We all need our rest. I'll open with a different view of our natural world. Nature at the macro level always astounds me. There's so much going on at 1:1. This is from an icy puddle in the woods. The bubbles make it all look lively and organic. Have a great day, everyone. Let's see what nature has to offer in your neck of the woods.

Revisiting the surreal landscape of Hunting Island, SC.