Picture-A-Week 2022 - Week 36

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, September 5 and Sunday, September 11.

 

We're sneaking up on fall. Maybe take the Fall Colors "before" picture?

 

 

Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

[Docker123]

Flags at half mast, Williamstown Town Hall. Australian and Indigenous flags.

 

Someone must have died.

 

[pierces]

The price of gas has increasingly become an issue in the last two years. California adds its bonus on top of the general pain which makes Costco's pricing per gallon the best around by 50¢ or so. Enough of a savings that our local store has had to reroute the gas line to circle the parking lot rather than back up the freeway off-ramp for most of the day. Experience has taught me that the “golden hour” starts 45 minutes after they open on Tuesday. The Monday commuters won’t need to refill until at least Wednesday and the opening bell line is gone by then. Still, driving up to a pump to fill up Costco-cardless Granddaughter Hailee’s car with nobody behind me was a rare, photo-worthy moment.

 

Timing is Everything

 

 

 

 

Dave

[cruises42]

Birds in our yard.

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 

 

Female Orchard Oriole 

 

Prairie Warbler

Edited September 12, 2022 by cruises42

[zackiedawg]

Major catch-up project for me - been off the boards for a bit as it's been a hectic September!  Some extra duty at work trying to carve out a hole to go on vacation, then a vacation in the middle of the month, then followed by Hurricane Ian which didn't affect me on the east coast, but my office has two branches, including one in Port Charlotte that went through the eye - the 5 employees over there were all riding out their houses in the eye wall and have varying levels of damage from near-total home loss, to no damage at all but no power.  All the prep to roll over their operations to our office location and me taking calls for 6 people instead of 1 has made me quite busy.

 

Finally, I can get in and post some weekly photos from the last 3-4 weeks!  Starting off with some birding on the weekend of 9/10:
 

Pig frog sitting in the water:

 

The weekend of 9/10 was also the first strong signs of migration - lots of different species in the trees passing through and feeding up, like this black and white warbler:

 

The lovely northern parula:

 

Super-rare sighting - I've only photographed this bird twice before, in 20 years...the prothonotary warbler:

 

A female American redstart:

 

The tiny little blue-grey gnatcatcher is here all winter - this one seemed very curious about me and my lens, from about 8 feet away:

 

Another black-and-white warbler:

 

The male American redstart - much bolder pattern than the female above:

 

And finally, the more common and year-round resident, a northern cardinal, just because they're so pretty against the green foliage:

[PurpleHays]

Coming out of the fjord from Bergen Norway.

 

I think I like my new (to me) camera. This one of the first occasions I've used it and was terrified because I didn't take my laptop. I had to wait until I got home to download and *pray* I had used the correct settings.

 

There is no after processing as I don't have any programs yet.