Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. What can I say, I got a new job, got up to speed with the group in 2 weeks and presented at a week long conference for Faculty my new group puts on yearly. So as my first post back from the world of FITSI I present to you, some sweet, sweet dragonfly porn. ;-)

Enjoy.

Head over to my Flickr account if you want hi-res photos. The detail is worth it.

Osprey with fish. Thats what I call fresh take out. Cropped for detail.

As I mentioned earlier today, I found a plethora of wildlife today. I can add to that list, a Red Tail Hawk as well. I got a chance to get a few more photos up so you folks at home can see them.

These Canada geese must have decided on Kraft Dinner eh?

I’ll admit it, I was so excited to FINALLY be getting a few close ups of these Mergansers, I totally missed that I was capturing the Blue Heron too. I saw him/her fly a few minutes after taking a series of the ducks, but didn’t see it ‘hiding’ in the frame.

“MALLARD DUCK” O.K., an inside joke involving a little Bushmills at a friends and convinced we could teach their dog to speak English if we started with one of her toys, a mallard duck. The pictures not bad either, but I have better ones from the 12th I need to get posted.

And finally, my guest of honor. I’m very excited about the Osprey above. I wish there had been more light, but having an O.K. picture is better then no picture. BUT to have found this little guy, well, kind of a porker for a fox is the highlight of my photos today. I’ve only EVER seen about 4 foxes in my 28 years on this planet. Thats a surprisingly small amount for the shear volume of time spent as a youth at Moosehead Lake in Maine.

The gallery with full-size photos can be seen where you can see the full, medium quality jpgs (god bless raw+jpg mode) is available. So that about sums up ‘Mike’s’ wildlife log for Friday the 13th. . . Oh except the male cardinal, gold finch (both in gallery), phoebe, red winged black birds, male downy or hairy woodpecker, and deer I saw today, well deer tonight on the way home from dinner. So, who wants to live in the city again?? ;-)

Well, father winter went out with a big old “TAKE THAT!” This April. It’s the first time living in New Hampshire we’ve been without power for more then a few hours. Overnight ~6″ of VERY wet and heavy snow wrought havoc here in the Seacost region.

But lo, there is always a bright side of life. [Always look on the bright side of life, tweet tweet, tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet.]. Around 10 a.m. my buddy Perry, professional photographer pulled into the drive. Ran inside, and in drill sergeant fashion, ordered me to get my camera and change out of my pjs, we were “getting out there.”

So out there we went. Out to Isinglass falls, just across from the waste management landfill in Barrington. I thought it an odd location at first until we started humping out through the woods and we hit the falls. There, I learned a few techniques for photographing in the woods on an overcast day, in the snow, and how to get some of those silky whitewater shots. There, or rather when I returned, I also learned the importance of the correct circular polarizer for your lens. Every shot taken at 18mm, has vignette. I guess it’s time to pony up for a slim filter. Wish I had realized that before I bought the ‘cheaper’ filter.