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...A collection of my favorite photos of the day...
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Mom4squirrels > OCTOBER 23RD FIRST SNOW IN THE PARK We seem to have jumped from Fall to winter in a matter of hours! This photo was taken in the Cleveland Metroparks, South Chagrin Reservation late this afternoon. I post processed it in Photoshop Elements (just learning about it), and played with the "Hue" and this is what I got... I love it. Hopefully you are seeing the reds and oranges with ice blue colored pavement? Here is the original: http://mom4squirrels.smugmug.com/gallery/1855637/5/104889557 More snow predicted for tomorrow...yuck!!
Mom4squirrels > October 24th First Snow in the Park Part 2 I loved the snow falling onto the last of the colorful leaves and saved this photo for today. Lots of wet snowflakes in my area with little accumulation...other parts had about 3"...hopefully Indian Summer is still coming...maybe in time for Halloween?
Mom4squirrels > October 25th Bridge in the Park Stretching across Wolf Creek in the Cleveland Metroparks, Garfield Reservation, stands this 1898 stone foot bridge designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted. This beautiful sandstone landmark in Garfield Heights, Ohio (named for President Garfield,) was locally cut just for this bridge and has endured floods and draughts for 109 years! A walk across the bridge gives you a views of the winding creek and leads one to a picnic area in the shade of the trees at the top of the hill.
Mom4squirrels > October 26th Sharp-Shinned Hawk Here's the first of several installments from my trip to Cape May, NJ to watch the bird migration going south for the winter. Our group was privileged to see two hawks that were caught and banded during their journey. One was the Sharp-Shinned Hawk which is a small bird catching hawk, and it's larger look-a-like "cousin" a Cooper's Hawk. (Neither species prefers squirrels :>D). The birds are carefully caught in a big, nearly invisible net that has a captive bird as a lure in front of it. (In some cases, as with the larger birds of prey, they use pigeons with protective leather jackets on to draw the hawk into the net area.) There are various types of triggers, including touching the net which causes it to close around the hawk and harmlessly capture it. Then the bird is checked for appropriate weight, sex (by their size and weight), age and health. A size appropriate, numbered band is placed on the leg, recorded, and then the bird is set free to continue it's journey. All this is done under the careful supervision of the Cape May Bird Observatory and it's volunteers. Some hawks and warblers, fly as far as South America! Even hummingbirds fly to Central America! The birds we saw were ready to be released, and after being shown to the group, we watched each fly away... A VERY MOVING EXPERIENCE!! (I have to get a few hundered photos ready for the trip reunion, so my post processing is going slowly...I will put up some photos ASAP. Please bear with me.. I am just starting to use Photoshop Elements to post process AND convert all my RAWS to Jpegs...YIKES what a job!)
Mom4squirrels > October 27th Great Egret in the Marsh Love the reds, yellows and greens in the grasses in the Fall. This photo was taken outside the Wetlands Institute, Cape May, New Jersey.
Mom4squirrels > October 28th...Just for fun... THE DRILL SARGENT I just loved this shot of the two Royal Terns that appear to be standing at attention while the the drill sargent tern ...which I can picture with his billy club tucked neatly under his wing..al la General George Patton.... makes a face like he was about to squawk out the orders!
Mom4squirrels > October 29th YELLOW RUMPED WARBLER WITH A JUNIPER BERRY My computer has had a problem the past 2 days and now won't download my photos. So my Daily is sitting in the CF card until tomorrow...I have been working very hard on the Cape May photos ...here is the link to the nature photos I have processed so far ;-) http://mom4squirrels.smugmug.com/gallery/2067552
Mom4squirrels > OCTOBER 30TH MOCKINGBIRD IN A CRABAPPLE TREE Here is the reprocessing per suggestions from others. I admit I was too lazy to attempt the take the branch out of the front of the bird...but I am happy with my post processing on that. The depth of color was fine on my monitor, but SM usually lightens it more, so I never know how much to darken my postings...thanks for the suggestions everyone... http://mom4squirrels.smugmug.com/gallery/1761912
Mom4squirrels > October 31st BEWARE OF THE SHADOW! This photo started out as a shadow on my neighbor's garage wall of my scarecrow in the tree and the pumpkin lights hanging off the branches Somehow I found "curves" on my husband's computer (he's installing Windows on my iMac tonight so I can finally have CS2 as my post processing program!!!) and all these bright colors emerged...so, rather than stick with orange and black...I went for the bold and the abstract.
OCTOBER 23RD

FIRST SNOW IN THE PARK

We seem to have jumped from Fall to winter in a matter of hours!
This photo was taken in the Cleveland Metroparks, South Chagrin Reservation late this afternoon. I post processed it in Photoshop Elements (just learning about it), and played with the "Hue" and this is what I got... I love it. Hopefully you are seeing the reds and oranges with ice blue colored pavement? Here is the original:http://mom4squirrels.smugmug.com/gallery/1855637/5/104889557
More snow predicted for tomorrow...yuck!!
> OCTOBER 23RD FIRST SNOW IN THE PARK We seem to have jumped from Fall to winter in a matter of hours! This photo was taken in the Cleveland Metroparks, South Chagrin Reservation late this afternoon. I post processed it in Photoshop Elements (just learning about it), and played with the "Hue" and this is what I got... I love it. Hopefully you are seeing the reds and oranges with ice blue colored pavement? Here is the original: http://mom4squirrels.smugmug.com/gallery/1855637/5/104889557 More snow predicted for tomorrow...yuck!!
OCTOBER 23RD

FIRST SNOW IN THE PARK

We seem to have jumped from Fall to winter in a matter of hours!
This photo was taken in the Cleveland Metroparks, South Chagrin Reservation late this afternoon. I post processed it in Photoshop Elements (just learning about it), and played with the "Hue" and this is what I got... I love it. Hopefully you are seeing the reds and oranges with ice blue colored pavement? Here is the original:http://mom4squirrels.smugmug.com/gallery/1855637/5/104889557
More snow predicted for tomorrow...yuck!!
Camera: Canon (Canon Eos 30d) |
More details: exif |
Original size: 3000px x 2187px |
Current: 400px x 292px |
Other sizes: Small · M · L |
Keywords: park hue snowflakes adjustment
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