Scenic Sunday #122 - Innsbrook Austria

In the Alps...above Innsbrook Austria.



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Bird Photography Weekly #115

I found a new photo meme that's PERFECT for me!!



I've often said that the best thing about living on Long Island is the birds, and I rarely come back from a photo outing without a slew of new images.

This picture was taken at Belmont Lake near Babylon, NY just last week. Flat light gives the image a painterly feeling but I was thrilled with the contrast of the heron against the fall foliage.



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Watery Wednesday

This is my first time for participating in the Watery Wednesday photo meme. In thinking about an image to share, it occurred to me that I haven't posted ONE SINGLE picture from our trip to Germany and Austria this summer. It's been a big job going through them, picking which images to keep and then to do the touch up work. I get started, then distracted....blah, blah, blah...and haven't really gotten to it. I have so many, I could do one a day for....well, awhile.
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Driving through Austria is both a photographers dream and nightmare. The scenery is breathtaking beyond words and everywhere you look you see a photo, but you can't stop everywhere. But this was one stop we made as we were driving through the Zillertal Valley.

More Fall Photos

I keep thinking that we're at the end of the season, that the color is done. But, you travel a little further south or just to the west, and find little pockets of fall are still hanging on. I'm enjoying autumn as long as it lasts.

Low Tide at Stony Brook Harbor

In a continued attempt to get back to regular blogging....or at least photoblogging, I'm turning to memes as a way to motivate more frequent posts. This is a much photographed local landmark in our little village of Stony Brook, NY. I thought it was particularly pretty as the marsh grass takes on its autumn color.

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Round Robin Challenge - Outside Looking In

The current Round Robin Photo Challenge is to share a picture from the outside of a window looking in. I miss the old days where department stores did fabulous windows along the main street of town. Faceless models wearing the best of what the store had to offer, completely surrounded by fascinating props that made the whole thing pop. Each was more engaging than the last. Today's mall stores don't get the job done at the same caliber.

I was jumping in my car at a strip mall one night recently, when this window caught my eye. I think the fact that it was dark made the whole look really work. Even with a dress as spectacular as this...I question if I would have noticed it, much less photographed it in the daylight.




Be sure to visit the other challenge participants. You'll find the complete linking list to the other Robins here.

Pure Luck

I got a nice surprise yesterday...a case of pure photographic luck.

I was out with a friend taking pictures at a lake. Just for the heck of it, I took this photo of three mergansers swimming in a line. They were just a tad far away but I take these shots anyway just in hopes that maybe I can pull one bird out of the bunch for a nice image.

I took a series of these photos within seconds. So I have a bunch of them that look just the same. As you can see, this is a NOTHING special shot...totally uninteresting...should go right to trash bin.




But when I magnified the shot and looked at each bird individually, I saw that the leader had a fish!



My series shows this bird working to gulp down the fish...here's one. What LUCK!