Winter in Wolf Trap Farm Park

Oct 18 post from Robert

summer day at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Blackberry Farm at Sunrise

This photo is hand-held on the deck of the Inn at Blackberry Farm in the Smokies of Tennessee. The sun was right and the morning haze was just beginnig to fade away for the day. The photo has been sharpened in post processing, but I'll take credit for a relatively steady hand.

Burnside's Bridge at Antietam

These photo were taken on a September morning, almost 150 years after the Battle of Antietam. Both photos are five-frame high dynamic range, with exposures separated by steps of 1.0 EV. Both photos have been sharpened in post-processing and they were shot with tripod and cable release.

Spring Ephemerals by Janet

This is the glorious season of spring ephemerals, like these Spring Beauties at Turkey Run.

It seems to me that one of the true spring ephemerals is not a flower but a color, the vivid green of early spring, which will darken in days but is absolutely glowing now. Here are two shots of that green, from Scotts Run.

For the single leaf, the wet rock provided contrast. The other was trickier. I struggled through a patch of Jack-in-the-Pulpit to try to find a dark background that would make the green plant "pop." Dissatisfied with the backgrounds I found, I decided to try an all-green background to repeat and reinforce the spring green.