42°30'11" N 71°51'27" W
What a difference a day makes (see yesterday). Snow falling makes everything look beautiful. That said, birch trees really don't need help. They have lovely personalities all by themselves with their peeling skin and entangled branches. I took 30 pictures of this birch tree, close up, far away, looking up, left and right. I love all of them, but that's just me. This is Paradise Pond. Wonderful for kayaking - at the right time of year. The snow is falling at a pretty good clip, but it is just a little squall. Note that all the photos in my blog are geotagged and you can paste the coordinates found below each photo into Google Maps to see the exact location the photo was shot. Nikon D610; 1/90 sec, f/11, ISO 200 (28 - 300mm f3.5-5.6)
42°30'11" N 71°51'27" W
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The temperatures are dropping but the streams are still running. You can't tell, but the wind chill was near 20 degrees when this was taken because the wind was gusting to 40 miles per hour. I tried to photograph wind, but it is an elusive endeavor. This picture is looking east with the sun over my right shoulder. Taken from the west side of East Lake Waushacum in Sterling, MA. in the same area that the Weshacum (Nashaway) Indians lived in the 17th and 18th century. Nikon D610, 1/750 sec, f/11, ISO 200, 28-300mm - 3794
42°24'35" N 71°45'16" W Snow through the night changed to freezing rain in the morning. The roads were a mess, but the trees were beautiful with just the right amount of ice forming on the limbs. It is remarkable to consider how nature prepares for the future. It is January and through the crackling ice you can already see the spring buds. Nikon D610, 1/125th sec with off-camera flash, f8.0, ISO 200 (105mm f2.8) - 3702
42°25'18" N 71°49'36" W Never have I seen bubbles frozen in ice. I am not sure what phenomena has occurred to cause this. It is remarkable to see. We have a backyard pond which we built almost ten year ago. For years we had koi. They were wonderful fish that went silent in winter but always came back no worse for the wear in spring. A year ago, our pond was visited by a couple of mink which quickly helped themselves to our koi. By then, they had grown more than a foot long. It was sad to see the struggle. I look at these frozen bubbles rising from the depths of the pond and think to myself that they are the last breath of our missing koi. What else could they be? Nikon D610 1/90 sec f/3.0 (105mm f2.8) - 3604
42°25'18" N 71°49'36" W Winter is here to stay for a while. There is no getting away from it. I grew up in Ohio and Illinois amongst other great states. As a kid, I remember expansive fields and small hills. It is different in the east. The hills are still there, but they tend to be considerably larger than in the Midwest. It is a rare sight to see a field of this size in Massachusetts. This picture is of a pristine field that runs along the Wachusett Reservoir in Sterling, Massachusetts. It is peaceful here. 1/180 sec f16, ISO 200, 28mm (28-300mm f/3.5-5.6) - 3492
42°24'6" N 71°43'50" W So the year begins looking up. This picture was taken on the beach of East Waushacum Lake in Sterling, Massachusetts (my home town and the source of many of my photographs). It was taken as the sun was falling low in the sky, the magic hour as it is called. Almost vertical to this wonderful tree. You can't help but think about all the options we have as we look into the future as long as we are grounded with a strong foundation. Happy New Year! Nikon D610, 1/500 sec f6.7, ISO 200, 28mm (28-300 mm F3.5-5.6) - 3335
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I am Robert McKay Jones, a photographer from Sterling, Massachusetts and North Fort Myers, FL. I take photographs almost every day. I post my favorites here. |