Category Archives: photography
No April Foolin
Friends, on April 1st we saw some Sandhill Cranes in Crex and they look great after being absent for the last four months. But this morning, we had 14 inches of new snow on the ground, hope they can find enough to eat. This boy was turning to see if he could see what was making that strange clicking noise (my camera) so his eye was very sharp and although i have thousands of images of cranes, i always thrill at seeing them for the first time in the spring, til Tomorrow MJ
One more Owl
Friends, this is a little better image of mama owl and the baby is out of the nest hole and sitting on the ledge with her on Friday when i again visited the city owl. Above is a portrait of the baby owl, as he discovers that there are people and cameras looking at him, til Tomorrow MJ
Owl Portrait
Friends, this is a little closer view of the mama owl watching over her chicks, i cropped it from the original view and did not get closer physically. I wanted to see the eyes and the feathering on her breast up a little closer, til Tomorrow MJ
Great Horned Owl
Friends, this great horned owl is keeping a sleepy watch over her young in the nest. I shot 200 images on this shoot, but only one image had both subjects with open eyes, and mother only had a half opened eye, but you get what you get, considering myself very lucky this morning, til Tomorrow MJ
Color Pink
Friends, this is not outside, but in the indoors at Como Park in St Paul, every spring (or late winter) my color meter gets empty and i need to get it filled. The Conservatory at Como is a delightful place year round, flowers blooming in great profusion. This cyclamen still had the morning watering clinging to it, so i got in close to do a macro. hope you like it til Tomorrow MJ
A Hole in the Clouds
Friends, on a recent cloudy day i ventured to enter Crex Meadows, no light but when i reached this point, suddenly the sky opened to reveal this lonely oak tree, so I took out the camera and took his picture, he said thank you and i was on my way, too much snow is making me talk to inanimate objects, but thank you lonely oak, til Tomorrow MJ
Black Tern
Friends, working in photoshop while we are confined to the house cause of the weather, too cold with windchills in the -50 F range. This image was shot at iso 400 and the sky had a lot of digital noise compliments of my camera, so i have become very good at minimizing the sky noise. This is a black tern that hovered over the marsh in search of prey, he will hunt insects and fish, wonder what he caught. I liked the hovering pose of the bird and a small hint of cloud behind him. til Tomorrow MJ
Snow Wave
Friends, well back to winter this morning, the wind makes beautiful snow waves and on a sunny morning they truly sparkle , enjoy your morning, til Tomorrow MJ
Be My Valentine
Friends, been saving this image for a special occasion, Valentines day, happy happy til Tomorrow MJ
Sleepy Snowy
Friends, Jim and i went to Duluth on a very bright day and found the Snowy Owl sitting on the snow high above us, he posed but would not open his eyes. The eye shape was probably the inspiration for snow goggles worn in the northland to minimize the snow reflections on a bright day. Just a horizontal slit in a piece of leather served to diminish the amount of light that enters the eye. We had to follow a snowmobile track and fell into thigh high snow when stepping off the track, but we got out where we could photograph without the sun directly behind the owl. The telephoto did the rest to get us close enough, this image is also cropped greatly. Snowing today but we will return on another day. til Tomorrow MJ
MJ Springett 