Under Veteran's Bridge on the St. Lucie River at Palm City, FL
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We got a lot of snow about a week ago.
21 inches at our house.
Then the temperatures dropped.
It was -14 degrees yesterday morning and -13 degrees this morning.
Getting lots of hoar frost.
So, it was pretty cold out visiting the fox.
I took this a few days ago, right after the river started to freeze over.
She was hunting along the rivers edge.
The ice was pretty thin and I did worry about it.
But, she is smart and careful.
There were quite a few areas that had large frost crystals forming on the ice.
I saw 3 fox this morning and photographed 2 of them.
Camera settings: f/6.3 - 1/160 - 451mm - ISO 1600
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A happy 'weed' around here in the spring--San Francisco Bay Area. It appears at the edge of landscape beds throughout the city. Always cheerful and healthy.
"Main areas of distribution are Europe from the north Mediterranean coast to the Baltic, from the British Isles in the west to the Caucasus in the east, and eastern North America. It is not native to western North America, where it has escaped from cultivation and is regarded as an invasive species."--Wikipedia.
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One of my photos of the sun from two days ago. I decided to feature this image by itself due to the magnificent solar flares, visible in the sun's corona near the bottom left and about a third the way up from the bottom right. I took this particular image as the "diamond ring" (Baily's Beads) was appearing after complete obscuration of the sun. Given the massive size of our sun, I would imagine that the largest of the three flares is probably bigger than our entire planet. What an amazing sight!
I made this photograph in Summerside on Prince Edward Island, Canada. I used my eleven year old Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 mounted to a sturdy tripod. The raw image was processed in DxO PhotoLab 6.x. For this photo, I selected an aperture of f/9.0 and a shutter speed of 1/2000th at ISO 200. I removed my solar filter briefly during the period of complete occultation when just the corona was visible.
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This is a series of photos that I have assembled into a single image from the solar eclipse that occurred yesterday (April 8, 2024) over North America. I took over fifty photos (one every five minutes using a solar filter over my lens, plus a large number without a solar filter when the sun was completely hidden by the moon).
For this image, I selected only a few exposures from the full series in order to keep the file size manageable while also providing a sense of the eclipse from beginning to end. The total time involved in the observation and photography was a little over two hours.
The original photos were taken in Summerside on Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada. We were very fortunate to have had clear skies throughout. I used an aging (11 year old) Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mk I camera with the M.Zuiko 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 zoom set to 400mm. I also used a simple ISO rated solar filter over the lens. For most of the images, the camera was set to ISO 200 and 1/15th of a second. I locked the aperture at f/7.1. All exposures were made in Manual Mode. The final image was composited in Photoshop.
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