Nature Photography

Since my roommate had gone home for the weekend I had a really quiet saturday full of meditation, yoga, and photography. The following two images are interesting because they're upside-down. Notice the ripples in the second photo.

 

I found a frozen, dead, or sleeping salamander. I balanced on this log that floated out onto the lake and took some shots of the lively salamanders under the water.

 

 

 

I've been experiment with depth of photos, the easiest way is to take pictures of paths.

The road around the lake.

Path to Cob House.

 

Slate Shingles

 

Summer so far...

Summer has been interesting so far. A lot of it has been running around trying to get my shit together before I move both in Maine and go on another adventure in 10 days. On my birthday (I turned 21?) I went up to Camden Maine with me Mum and Paul to check out so potential houses. We may have had some luck, we'll find out soon.

View of the harbor from standing on the library

Camden Harbor

Poppies.

The swaddled dog. I'm not sure what she lets me do this.

But maybe it's because I buy her love with walks.

I've also been hanging out with this dude a lot. We may or may not have been doing a bit of this some evenings. It's been fun. I'm not sure why I took this photo, but the angle is interesting. Also, it's my last bit of time with him until pretty much Christmas since I won't be around for the rest of the summer. He will be going to San Francisco Art Institute this fall.

Haiku from May 8th, 2012

Wrinkled dark wet bark,
twisted boughs sprout tender leaves,
nurturing spring rain.

A gather of those who cannot move their necks

I have been taking a wilderness first responder course all week. Here's a little preview of what we have been up to. More photos to come!

All of these funny hats/capes are various style of improvised neck braces. The one with the ears is known as the "flying nun."

 

Snow Storm and Indian Food

Well, it snowed very hard and we loaded a ton (yes, at least 2,000 pounds,) of pellets into our cabin. Then this week it's warm, and we will have to take out all the pellets before summer. Maybe I should not speak so soon... 

Zoë came and had a lovely visit to Pine Lake.

We went to the grocery store to get some vegetables for Indian food. Below is the Hannaford parking lot.  This is what it looked like as the storm came in. 

More Indian spices that Zoë brought me from New York City:

[ Random Stuff on a Shelf ]

And the cooking mess began...  and was definitely worth the food.

The March Forest of Upstate New York

I love living in the woods. 

I have begun to find tiny buds dotting the end of each twig. Spring is almost here after such a mild winter. Don't get me wrong though, it's in the low 20's or high 10's in the morning, but it is in the mid 50's today. The lake still has a thick piece of ice coving half of it with paper thin ice that almost pulses out of it and recedes daily.

Yup, we're making maple syrup at Pine Lake.

If you big up this picture you will see the canadian geese who may have decided to nest right in the middle of the swamp. They start yelling if we get within a hundred feet or so.

Geese and Glass

We have had some Canadian geese move into Pine Lake. They are very loud and we hear them call late at night. I think they might be mean.

I have been playing with my different lenses. This photo was taken from the fourth floor of Smith Hall about a quarter to a half mile away.

Also now I can do super low light photos for the first time ever! This is Cob House in the evening.

Vat of molten glass.

My Miyazaki inspired lantern sculpture. It has windows on the side, two smokestacks, doors, and three legs.

I've gone pro! And there's Snow.

As a super early birthday present I got a new very nice Cannon T3i from my dad. 

 I was really hoping for a snow-day.

 This is Yager Hall (also our library,) in the mist of our heated steps melting away the snow.

The Lack of Snow, Ice, and Winter.

These photos I took with Anthony's camera last weekend. I was attempting to capture a very bizarre February. Now I am not from this area but I could definitely tell it was strange. It is very warm hovering in the mid thirties or higher with random dips into the twenties. We get small powdering's of snow which barely stick. On colder days the lake doesn't freeze (even when it's snowing!) because the water is still warm from earlier in the week.

Random, but you won't believe how good this wood smells.

Footprints

Dog, human, car, coyote.