The morning was not a total disappointment. In the road ditch where I was standing to take pictures of the moon there were many wild prairie flowers blooming, Monarch butterflies flitting from flower to flower, and I got a photo of a Dickcissel singing on a fence post. Click the photos below to see larger.
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I missed the full Moon rising last night (I should put these things on my calendar), so I got up early to see it setting this morning. The moon set at 6:03 AM, so I needed to be out to the spot where I wanted to take a photo of it setting behind a local windmill about an hour earlier. When I went out in the dim twilight there was a clear, cloudless sky, bright moon and I could see clearly where I need to be, but the moon was still too high in the sky to get the photo that I wanted. Then it happened. Out of nowhere a thick fog rolled in across the fields and I could no longer see the windmill, and the moon was hazy. Ugh! Well, I waited around to see what would happen and as the sun came up, the fog did dissipate a little. I got a few photos, but the moon was rapidly fading away as it sank in the the fog. Not the sharp, clear picture of the moon behind the windmill that I had hoped for.
The morning was not a total disappointment. In the road ditch where I was standing to take pictures of the moon there were many wild prairie flowers blooming, Monarch butterflies flitting from flower to flower, and I got a photo of a Dickcissel singing on a fence post. Click the photos below to see larger.
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Yesterday the sky over North Iowa was very active. It is fascinating to watch the clouds but hard to realize the flowing changes in the clouds until it is sped up with a time-lapse video. This was recorded as a time-lapse video with a GoPro camera with a 10 second interval between each frame. There are 30 frames in each second of video, so it takes 6 frames in one minute, five minutes to record one second of video, and one hour to record 12 seconds. Click below to watch the short video. It's dragonfly season again. Here are my first attempts as a few photos this Spring. I just wish they would sit still long enough for me to frame, focus and take a picture. A bit challenging.
(Click an image to see larger) Once again on my annual fishing trip to Voyageurs National Park in Northern Minnesota I was able to get a few photos of Common Loons, Bald Eagles and ducks all taken from the boat (thanks to willing boat captains who took a slight break from fishing so that I could snap a few quick shots.) The photos of the Common Mergansers below were a bit of a surprise as I looked at the photos because the drake had fish line wrapped around its beak and may have been unable to eat. I sent the photos the the National Park Service office at the park in hopes that they could use it as a part of their education efforts to remind fisher-persons why they shouldn't throw used, tangled fish line in the lake. (Click an image below to see larger.) Previous Blog postings about Voyageurs National Park:
Bald Eagles in Voyageur's National Park Voyageur's National Park - Loons and more Loon in the Morning Common Loons |
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