Mask
Fresh sidewalk paint, in rain, with the mask of a chain. I don’t know why. But it looks cool.
Plum Blossoms
This plum tree was completely covered in blossoms this spring, but this branch caught my eye because the cluster at the end of the branch was almost shaped like a pineapple.
Spring Water
Blue Hole spring in the Devil’s Backbone wilderness, MO. The water truly is blue, offset by changing leaves of early fall.
Roiling Storm
These dramatic clouds are the result of an approaching storm a few weeks ago, something I always enjoy watching.
Smooth as Sandstone
Lost Creek Wilderness is largely covered in granite from the Pikes Peak batholith, a unique pink rock largely made of feldspar. This composition makes it easily weathered like sandstone, and many of the shapes are reminiscent of regions with sedimentary rocks.
Spring Cascade
Spring in northern Wisconsin always brings high water from snow melt and rain, which provides spectacular sights at local waterfalls and rivers. This spring certainly delivered with cold nights providing an icy fringe to the water.
Bearberry
Bearberry is a common ground cover in North America. For most of the year it flies under the radar as the universal green that you walk on in sandy areas, but in the spring it is covered in delicate pink flowers, shown here.
Crags
I have been enjoying the challenge of editing other peoples photos recently, which I feel has helped me try ideas that I wouldn’t normally on my own photos. This edit of a photo by elel really shows off the depth of the canyon using the fog to layer the cliffs fading into the background.
Amber in the Making
Up in the mountains where the aspen alternate with wind swept fields I found a tree where a woodpecker had drawn blood. Every hole was covered with a drop of hardened sap, the color of amber. I broke off a piece to examine; here it sits in the crook of the tree.
Frozen Spray
These icicles are the result of cold nights during the spring thaw. Just up river from this cliff is a waterfall that was creating a cloud of mist, freezing into fantastical shapes along the ledges.