graywanderings

Nature Photo Journal #11

Beneath an expansive big sky view and shimmering light, a small shore line offers adventures in cracking through the freeze, sending little islands of ice sheets and bubbles into the open water, and tracking wandering birds.

Nature Photo Journal # 10

In each collection of photos, I try to capture some of the details I observe and the overall feeling of the day. The motif of austere snow, shadow and plants continues as the gift of sunny winter days return. And remaining Dr. Seuss-like pines remain in otherwise clearcut areas.

Nature Photo Journal #9

Part of my intent is to simply document some of the different details on the landscape that I see when slowing down. The snow provides a perfect setting for seeing animal tracks and signs: an elk trail and droppings, a rabbit run, a small rodent darting between two areas of cover, and a fox crossing a winter stream.

Trees with a snowy backdrop, even on a very grey day, keep catching my attention and appreciation this winter: layers of detail, shape, and color. I also wonder what’s occasionally afflicting some trees.

Nature Photo Journal #8

The large cottonwood featured in these images is a sentinel looking over our neighborhood park. I am interested in different angles of photographing the great tree as it changes throughout the seasons.

Nature Photo Journal #7

Getting to spend a week in the mountains, wandering with the Continental Divide always in view, playing in the snow, and enjoying the details of the season, is certainly a privilege and a welcome reprieve from urbanity. Photos help document the gratitude of the day.

Return to St. Louis Creek — Fraser, CO 12/29/20

Wander Out The Back Door — Fraser, CO 12/30/21

Photos that look like dugout holes in the snow are tracks of a fox carrying some type of insect and running through the snow (I think).

Snowshoe at Rocky Mountain National Park — 1/1/21

Nature Photo Journal #6

Sometimes I feel that maybe we are living out the fear of that song, you know, the one about the tree museum … nature and wildness locked up in small urban preserves, tucked against settling ponds, rock quarries, and prisons. But thank goodness these important places exist at all. Where would the urban psyche be without these landscape reprieves? We need much more habitat. And I am also grateful for the open spaces others have worked hard to protect.

Nature Photo Journal #4

I feel incredibly fortunate to live across the street from this lake. Though tucked up snug against I70, ducks arrive throughout the winter and nature emerges in every corner.

Nature Photo Journal #3

From landscape to detail, and animals on the roam, this is a wild place in the middle of urbanity …

Nature Photo Journal #2

This is a beautiful spot that Brennan and I have been exploring in every season. There are gaps between the rush of bicycling and cross-country skiing to see the details in the landscape …

Ice and Snow

Shadows