I don’t know much about these little Nuthatch. We always had the White-breasted Nuthatch only.
They’re fairly small, like Chickadee size. They are said to live in pine forests in the Southeaster US. All that fits for right behind my house.
The just seem to come and go. I would think they would be hanging here fulltime.
I will say just like the bigger Nuthatch they are upside down a lot, and as you can see below fly off quick from that position.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 II, Lightroom.
The small vine, from a single seed, has grown and become part of a morning ritual. One of the first things we do is look for the flowers that have opened for the moon light.
It’s a gift that keeps giving and we have the cameras and flash ready. As soon as the dew covers the flowers they start to close. The process to open, or close, is so fast you can stand there and watch. Ellen filmed a flower opening in the early evening.
I’m starting to slow down on the number of images I’m taking. A few more collections like this to document the great summer surprise and the season should be over.
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General specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100, GODOX iT32 flash, Lightroom, ON1 PR, Topaz, DxO Silver Efex, DxO Filmpack.
Finally one in a Moon Flower. Ellen has been getting great shots of the little guys in the flowers around here. Me, not so much.
In fairness she basically walked me over to where this was LOL.
This was quite a long shot, and it’s a dark spot. A little surprising it came out decent. Maybe that’s why the image was in the ‘to do’ and never touched again.
When we hit a good day the number of images can get large, near 1,000 is common. Over time I’ve gotten better at culling the files but there comes a time when I just get to the point where I ‘pick a few’ and move on. That means a look through the folder later, like here in a Yellow-crown rookery, I always find shots that were ignored based on sheer volume of the opportunities.
This was taken from about as far as I would shoot in a dark swamp. The edge of this rookery has a gully where I can usually spot activity like this Night Heron waiting to see any sign of movement in the thick swamp water.
Not something I would normally do in Black and White, they are too colorful. But it’s something different. Besides the ‘side eye’ look he’s giving me worked with it too.
OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 II, Lightroom, Topaz, DxO Silver Efex.
From an abandon farm house, coastal South Carolina.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 II, ON1 PR, Topaz, DxO Silver Efex.
It’s always in a dark swamp. Thinking about that I’m pretty sure the only Heron I see regularly in the Four Hole Swamp are the Yellow-crowned Night Herons. Four Hole is one of the oldest, and thickest, old forest swamp.
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After the US Civil War the area in and around Charleston went from rich to poor. Since the war started here there was no love lost for the town.
And yet General James Simons (1813–1879) managed to have this huge crypt created for himself and family.
He was a politician, Confederate General, marries into the Wragg family, a cotton smuggler, and probably a few other occupations.
Below is his large mausoleum outside of Charleston.
Specs; OM-1 (1), Olympus 40-150 r, Lightroom, in-camera B&W.
