Every once in while some of the greatest image captures come from having a camera ready when something unexpected happens. I captured some images of this fox kit that had been searching for food in the yard. The mom, nicknamed Foxy Loxy", adopted my place this past winter after a bad snowstorm. She since moved into a woodchuck den and this spring I surprised her and her litter of kits. At the time I thought there were three or four kits, but since then there are two kits that can be seen sleeping on round bales in the shed or moving about in the yard. Both kits were in the yard on this day, so I went back and grabbed the camera off the table and quietly opend the doors and steped out onto the front stoop and started taking pictures. Moral of this post, it's a good idea to always have a camera, of some kind, ready to capture the unexpected.
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The challenge to capture a great Aurora Borealis image keeps me heading out the door after 10PM and it is usually cold, since we tend to see them more during the winter months. None the less, I keep heading out to practice. Admittedly I do not invest large amounts of time studying the forecasts or planning trips and locations for my Aurora Borealis images. Much of time is spent in a very rural area that has minimal light pollution and a variety of places to set up the tripod without venturing too far from the nice warm house. This last storm I didn't even know about until it was mentioned on the late news. Yep, I was that uninformed. While finishing the news cast I pulled all the camera gear out and got everything ready. After about two hours of standing on snow and ice, the storm started to fade a little and I decided the feet were sufficently frozen and it was time to head back inside. The next morning I reviwed the images and did some post processing work on a few of the images. One of my favorite images is the one included here. Something about the light trail from a passing vehicle added a little extra flare to the image. What do you think? The weather has been a little strange this year. For late spring/early summer it has been quite warm and mother nature attempted to bubble up some late afternoon shows and thunderstorms for us. Unfortunately we did not get any rain, the storms fizzled before they got here. On the flip side waiting around for the rain to start, I was wandering around outside looking for some interesting images to capture, some wildlife to suddenly appear, anything so I could press the shutter button. After a few minutes I looked back over to the western sky and noticed the clouds were thinning some and slowly but surely the red was starting to appear on the horizon. Back to wandering I went, and a few minutes later the wonder of clouds at sunset started to paint the sky with reds and pinks. So sometimes you just need to be patient and wait for Mother Nature to work her magic. Well it was one of those mornings when the mind just decided it would be up before the sunrise and dragged the body along with it. Not all bad, even though it was ridiculously early, it was getting close enough to sunrise that I could see some clouds and they were starting to reflect light. Yep, since I was already up, might as well take the camera outside and see what materialized. Have to say, mother nature did not disappoint. |
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