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The Cascade Falls in the Jefferson National Forest in Giles County, Virginia.
Read about it on my blog: ericspiegelphotography.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/photowalk...
Another reference, you ask?! Yehp. I've found a look I like and a format that works for me. I'll show the paintings as they get worked up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=068AFYvd58E
f/20, ISO 200, 30 seconds, ND110 filter
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Geranium maculata - (Wild Geranium, Wood Geranium or Cranesbill)
these little ones are all over at Fall's Ridge.
I really like jumping spiders, but I haven't had much success photographing them. They are so small that the slightest breeze takes them completely out of focus. Very tough for hand-held photography in the "wild"...
Female
More info: BugGuide (just pictures...)
Location: along the Appalachian Trail, Troutville, Virginia
Equipment:
* Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i
* Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
* Flash: Canon 430EX II with custom reflector/diffusor
DECEMBER
Christmas Moon (Colonial American)
Bitter Moon (Chinese)
Snow Moon (Cherokee)
Peach Moon (Choctaw)
Twelfth Moon (Dakota Sioux)
Cold Moon (Celtic)
Oak Moon (English Medieval)
Long Night Moon (Neo Pagan)
Moon before Yule (Farmer's Almanac)
You really dropped the ball on this one, Dakota Sioux.
The flowers are 20 - 35 mm in diameter.
The ray florets look more like Erigeron, but the disk florets and the leaves seem to indicate Symphyotrichum...
The small leaves near the tips of the branches are lanceolate. The larger leaves on the main stalk may be linear, but they're all dried up now.
I'll take some measurements tomorrow, but now it's dark and I'm sick of looking at aster pictures on the internet...
Location: my yard, Troutville, Virginia
Equipment:
* Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i
* Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
* Flash: Canon 430EX II on a Lucas Macro Flash Bracket
The Milky Way over the New River
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Must view LARGE
This was taken Saturday morning down on the western end of Lee County, Va. had never noticed this barn from the highway until a few weeks ago. It sits way back in the fields with Stone Mountain in the background. Fortunately, an old railroad bed, now a walking and riding trail maintained by Wilderness Road State Park, runs about a 100 yards or more to the front of it. This photo was taken from just outside the fence that runs along that trail. Since the same family owns land on both sides of this trail, this side of the farm is accessed by a covered bridge the owner built across a deep cut in the old railroad bed. This way, he can move equipment, cattle, etc... from one side to the other without technically getting on "park" property! I have to admit that I did trespass (although I saw no signs) at the bridge to get a couple of "not-so-good" shots of it, and to get another angle on this barn. Shhhhhh! Don't tell the owner! By the time I took these few shots, the tips of my fingers were aching from the cold, so I didn't take much time to get a good photo of the bridge. I guess I'll have to go back!
Not a lot of the usual Fall colors this year, but the late afternoon sunlight makes the most of what there is......
Viewed from Salt Pond Mountain
Hopefully this is the first of many of my local Milky Way shots.
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This one was right at face level, across the path. Luckily I saw the web before I wore it...
According to BugGuide, "This spider is unusual because it rests in the web with its head up, not head down like most other spiders."
AKA: Triangle orbweaver
More info: I couldn't find much on-line...
Location: along the Appalachian Trail, Troutville, Virginia
Equipment:
* Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i
* Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
* Flash: Canon 430EX II with custom reflector/diffusor
Possibly Sonchus oleraceus (Annual sowthistle). The distinctions made in the Virginia Tech Weed Identification Guide aren't clear to me...
AKA: Sharp-fringed sowthistle, Prickly sowthistle, Spiny-leaved sowthistle, Perennial sowthistle
Synonym(s): Sonchus nymanii
Non-native
More information: Virginia Tech Weed Identification Guide
Location: my yard, Troutville, Virginia
The Milky Way from the Appalachian Trail on Salt Pond Mountain (home of Mountain Lake, one of two natural lakes in Virginia, and filming location of the film Dirty Dancing.)
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In Explore 2013-09-04 for long enough to get a few hundred views, but (again) didn't stick...
Seems a bit unusual in that the flowers are white instead of pink/lavender. It definitely isn't Dipsacus laciniatus (Cutleaf teasel) which has white flowers, but very distinctive pinnatifid leaves.
The leaves collect water. This picture shows this behavior, which is classified as a protocarnivorous...
AKA: Common teasel, Wild teasel
Synonym(s): Dipsacus sylvestris
Non-native, invasive
More info: wikipedia
Location: down the road from my house, Troutville, Virginia
Equipment:
* Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i
* Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
* Flash: Canon 430EX II with custom reflector/diffusor
A pair of awesome young reenactors I met today visiting the B17 from the movie Memphis Belle at the Roanoke Airport.
MADE EXPLORE THIS DAY #472. Old cabin a mile or so back in the woods. Age unknown. Looked as though it had been abandoned for 30-40 years. The elements have left if ready to fall at any time. Just makes me wonder, how many lived here in a family. Big families in small houses back in those days in southern Virginia.
According to University of Florida IFAS Featured Creatures, "Males have a white- or cream-colored spur or flap on the posterodorsal corner of the side of the thorax (metepimeron) next to the abdomen. This easily is spotted in the field. No other known insect in eastern U.S. has such a projection." This is why I'm relatively confident with the identification...
Synonym(s): Coreus galeator
Male
More info: BugGuide
Location: along the Appalachian Trail, Troutville, Virginia
Equipment:
* Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i
* Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
* Flash: Canon 430EX II with custom reflector/diffusor
The Milky Way over Heritage Park, formerly Brown's Farm. My last shot of the morning, and I did not expect to get a good one less than two miles from Virginia Tech, but was happily surprised, and rewarded with what appear to be two shooting stars. Mars to the left, Jupiter center.
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