Fringe | Photograffy » Branch http://www.photograffy.com Photography for the rest of us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:28:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 House Finch on a Snowy Branch http://www.photograffy.com/2009/10/house-finch-on-a-snowy-branch/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.photograffy.com/2009/10/house-finch-on-a-snowy-branch/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:35:15 +0000 david http://photograffy.com/2009/10/house-finch-on-a-snowy-branch/

House Finch on a Snowy Branch, originally uploaded by ifringe.

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House Finch on a Snowy Branch, originally uploaded by ifringe.

Yes, I know that yesterday I posted a beautiful summer picture, but I confess that I had peeked at the forecast before I did. And today… it snowed, right as expected. Throughout the day it snowed harder then softer, softer then harder, but it never really quite stopped making for an all in all gorgeous day.

The birds didn’t stop eating, either. In fact, they went through somewhere just around 100,000 pounds of bird food (well, it certainly seems that way. I know, I exegete. It is closer to 2,000,000 pounds), but that’s OK because it was so amazing to see all the birds hovering around the feeder.

Which brings us to this particular photo. This House Finch was captured on a branch just after it visited the feeder; it was probably deciding if it should go back for seconds, or thirds, or maybe 100ths. In any case, though, it sat on the branch long enough for me to grab a camera, focus it, and get this picture. In perfect timing the finch took off just after I pressed the shutter, but leaving just after is way better than leaving just before.

It snowed today. The birds were out, and it was a lovely day for pictures.

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Fall Web, originally uploaded by ifringe.

Fall. A wonderful time of the year, for the summer is ending and the winter has yet to come to pass. And now and then spectacular autumn day comes along: the sun shines brighter than usual, the colors are more vibrant and vivid (in Technicolor[tm] even) and the day is beyond glorious. Today was one of those days.

And for whatever reason, I was thinking about sunlight and spiderwebs and decided to combine those two thoughts into one photograph. With a little bit of scrounging the in the backyard I was able to find something close to what I was looking for. A complete web was not to be found, but there was this nice branch which some spider decided to redecorate. With the sun shining bright, how could I not capture its efforts?

Besides, I liked the bokeh, too. That seldom hurts.

The spider web and the incredible day may not be here tomorrow, but it will certainly live on in memory each time I see this picture.

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