Inspired by little things, I noticed a touch of color on a single dessicated rose hip in my garden today. Have to include one color image and one in B & W.
Macro Winter Rose Hip Images
Bull Moose
This moose was stuck in my back yard last night. Somehow got over the fence but couldn't get out... Anyway, I noticed him by my sliding glass window on the back deck around 6 am. He was surprisingly calm for the predicament he was in. I opened our back gate and a few minutes later he wandered out. The image is after he set himself free.
Nikon D3s & Nikon 35mm ƒ2 lens
Image Details: ƒ2, 1/13th sec, 12,800 iso
Final Day On The Silver Creek Preserve
Today was the final day of the fishing season upstream of the highway 20 bridge on Silver Creek. That includes the Nature Conservancy section and the Double R reaches. Fishing does stay open downstream of the highway 20 bridge through February. The streamer fishing on this section can be stellar on warmer cloudy days...
A late season rainbow released yesterday on the Silver Creek Preserve, Idaho. A few Baetis here and there and lots of spooky hard to approach fish. Nikon D3s and Nikon 14-24 ƒ2.8 lens
A November Baetis. Nikon D3s and Nikon 105 Micro lens plus extension tubes. Converted from RAW using NIK's Silver Effex Pro 2.
November Baetis
The images below were taken today on Silver Creek. Pretty warm at the Creek when I was there; about 44 degrees but windy. The baetis came off anyway and there were fish up on them. This particular baetis was about a size #18. For all of you wanting one more day on the Nature Conservancy section, this is the final week of the season. Everything on Silver Creek upstream of the Highway 20 Bridge will be closed starting December 1st.
I used the Nikon Micro 105 with an extension tube for these images. Between 12:15 and about 1:30 there were a lot of baetis.
Click on any of the images to view a larger version.
The fish were far more skittish today and did not let me get very close. I did manage to get a couple of frames just after a take or two.
Moose
A bull moose hung out in my neighbor's yard for much of the day today. He lounged and ate fallen apples. No dog had the guts to mess with him.
Gallatin River
Here's a three image panorama of the Gallatin River taken a couple of nights ago. It was converted from RAW to black and white using NIK's Silver Effex Pro 2. Click on the image to view the entire picture.
Nikon D3s, Nikon 24 pc-e lens
ƒ25, 1.3 seconds, iso 200
Yellowstone River
Below is a three image panorama of the Yellowstone River near Pray, Montana. It was taken using the tilt and shift function on the Nikon 24 pc-e lens. Putting together a panorama using a tilt/shift lens and utilizing the photomerge tool in Adobe's Photoshop is really painless. The file size increases as well. The image above is about 105 megabytes and 18 megapixels. I tilted the lens down about 1 degree to maximize the depth of field.
Wind, clouds and grass. Paradise Valley, Montana.
Wheel Line Motor Section
Here's an image taken near Gannett, Idaho. It's the motor section of a wheel line used for agriculture. This piece has been sitting solo since mid-October. The primary crops near Gannett and Picabo are barley and alfalfa. Certainly a symbol of anachronistic methods. Water and it's use has always been a fascinating issue for me. I will be posting all types of images related to water on this site.
I used the tilt function on the Nikon 24 pc-e lens to limit the depth of field on the two sides while maximizing the DOF in the middle part of the foreground all the way to infinity. The 24 pc-e lens is probably my favorite lens despite the manual focus.
I used Nik's Silver Effex Pro 2 to convert the RAW image to black and white. A favorite tool of mine within Silver Effex is the color filter. In the image above I selected blue to edit the sky and slightly adjusted the hue and hue strength sliders to darken the blues, ie the sky.
Nikon D3s, Nikon 24 pc-e lens