An old (film) dog's odyssey to learn new (digital) tricks


Archive for the ‘Nature’


Magenta-ish

A colorful close-in shot from the Rio Grande Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, New Mexico:

In the garden

So courtesy of Stuck in Customs, I found out about an interesting set of Photoshop / Lightroom / Aperture plugins by an outfit called Topaz Labs. They’re reasonably priced (as such things go), have a 30 day free trial available, and Trey’s site has a discount coupon so you can get 10% off on your [...]

Promising

Typical Colorado — a foot of snow one day, sunny and clear the next…

Knee deep in lunchtime

I pulled up this summer shot to remind me of warmer times, if only as a break between bouts of snow-shoveling…

Feline

When I was out for a quick lunchtime walk at work, I saw this swath of cattails by the side of the road…

Territoriality

A vignette seen at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colorado…

Floating

I ran across this nice little scene last weekend:

If there’s any moral to this story, it’s that beauty can be found when and where you least expect it. In this case, I found it in a puddle in our yard as the last storm’s snowfall melted. This corner is just dried mud now, [...]

Holdout

One lingering autumn leaf hangs on through the snow…

You can call me Fern

Taking advantage of a rainy day in Maine…

Winter has fallen

When you live in Colorado, you get used to the idea of indecisive weather…