Great Meadows 2012 Calendar

A recent family Tradition is the annual photo gift calendar. Spoiler Alert!!! If you have received one the last two years, please stop reading, or you may spoil your present for this year.

For everyone else, due to quantity purchasing discounts I will have a very limited number of extra calendars that I have available for sale. Images have been selected from this year's photography project at Great Meadows and are appropriate to the season. (Of all the thousands of photographs I took this year, it was tough to winnow the field to just 13 that were representative of the whole year at Great Meadows.)

The price is $15 including shipping by First Class mail within the United States. Each calendar is 8.5 x 11 inches, spiral bound. If you are interested, email me at Larry@LightChronicle.com. Payment will be on-line via PayPal.

Here are the photos contained in this year's calendar. Click on the images to see a slideshow of larger size images.


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January


February


March


April


May


June


July


August


September


October


November


December

To See What You Can't See

It's been a busy weekend, but I did get a couple chances to slip over to Great Meadows, between projects, tasks and planned activities. This morning when I awoke the view out the window was grey fog. I thought there must be some interesting photos to be had in the fog.

Some quick mental calculations yielded that if I hurried, I could get in a quick half hour of photography before heading to church. So here is the best that I could capture in that 30 minutes.



Looking back up the drive. I love that S curve.


The woods slowly transition to grey


A different view of my most frequent photo


A spot to contemplate, what you can't see in the impoundments


The towering oaks form the gateway to the parking lot


The closer you got to the impoundments, the more restricted your visibility and fewer interesting shadows on your horizon.


Most of the geese were grounded


A few geese must be IFR capable




The cool damp fog, covered the cobwebs with dew. On a normal day, if you are standing at the right angle you can often see the silk threads shining in the sun. Covered with dew, you realize that they blanket most all the plants on the dike.


Evening Primrose


Vervain


The perfect spider web

Not on the Honey-Do List

It's only a matter of before outdoor photography will require multiple layers, heavy coats, boots, gloves, hand warmers and frequent battery changes. Since Saturday was going to be unseasonably warm, how can one sleep in? With a schedule of several "Honey-Do" tasks awaiting me, I had to get up early to sneak in a little photography.

With my limited time, my strategy was a quick out and back to Borden's pond to see what was going on. Primarily there were the usual suspects, but a couple of things caught my eye.






I can't believe how the goose in their path continues to eat through the entire sequence




A group of gulls flew by


With toes like that, the itch will not stand a chance








I love the way the back lighting brings out the details