Wildlife

A sampling of the wildlife I have photographed this summer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flora and Fauna of Storm Water Park

A friend from work posted some photo's from a Storm Water Park. It was very near where I live so I decided to walk over and take a look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bee's and Flowers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three photo's of interest

 

I had not intended to shoot this in monochrome. I was taking pictures of other things earlier in monochrome and forgot to change back to color before taking this photo. It looks OK in monochrome.

 

 

 

 

 

Flowers and fungi

I am doing a little more catch up posting. Here are some photo's of some flowers and fungi I have photographed over the past month or so. I have even thrown in a cattail. It's not a flower or fungi but I didn't have anything else to group it with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two for one

Destination: Wabash Heritage Trail, South leg / Happy Hollow Park
Miles hiked: 8/6
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikkor 50mm 1:18 non DSLR lens.

No strong theme for this Saturday or Sunday's photo's and not a lot of photo's taken. So I will be combining the two days into one post.

This first photo is of a fish skull I found. I brought it home. I will clean up and use it in for some still life photo's later. Then I will add it to my Halloween collection. It is most likely an Asian Carp of some kind.

Stepping Stones

These flowers are everywhere this year.

Old Standard Oil Gas station next to where I work. It's a mini museum now. I plan on getting better shots of this later.

Night shot of one of the towers for pedestrian bridge.

Night shot of the Standard Oil Gas Station.

Some fungus growing on a rotting tree. I was disappointed with this. The color did not come out well. The colors were much brighter.

Some steps at Happy Hallow Park

Tree roots at Happy Hallow Park

One of these is not like the others. This is from my back yard

A bee came by while I was photographing the odd rose.

Destination: Buried Cars

Destination: The buried cars along the Wabash Heritage Trail
Miles hiked: 9
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikkor 50mm 1:18 non DSLR lens.

I decided to go back to the buried cars again. This was a risky choice due to the rain we had last night. The trail did have a few muddy spots but it was not to bad. It rained at least a .5 in last night.

I set up a tent Friday evening and slept it in. It was relaxing to listen to the rain. This something I like to at least once a year.

Along the way I visited a site I photographed this spring. I wanted to bring a tripod this time since the area is well shaded. I have not posted my original visit, but here is a link to the set on my Flickr page. The site is a pile of rubble on the bank of the river. I liked the old twisted i-beams or rail road tracks.

Here are some flower shots along the trail

I saw many of these colorful bugs today. I have not seen it before. I wonder what it is?

Flower with a bee of some kind.

Photo's from the rubble pile

The photo's from my last visit came out better. I think I will try again with a different lens some time soon. Today lens was a manual focus lens and I was have troubles telling if I was in focus or not. This area was somewhat muddy.

A tree near the rubble pile.

The buried cars

There are three old buried cars along the the Wabash Heritage Trail. One of them can only be photographed well from the bank of the river due to the weeds. It was too muddy to do that today. Here is a link to a photo of it I had taken in the spring. I was able to photograph the other two cars.

The red car. This one was a little out of focus. It looked OK in the view finder.

The blue car. This car is hard to get a good shot of. It is much more buried than the red car. The surrounding weeds don"t help much either. Maybe next spring?

The tail fin of the blue car.

Interior of red car.

Someone painted this cat on the side of the red car. It is nice simple graphic.