Frozen maple bud
Apr, 2021Views
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Location
I took this photo in my yard. I live in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom (NEK). The Kingdom is beautiful and sparsely populated. The natural beauty and landscape is what you imagine when you think of Vermont. I am a native, though not to this area of Vermont. I spent most of my spare time here in my camp for the last 15 years and decided to move here permanently about 5 years ago. Vermont is changing very fast and I no longer recognize the town that I grew up in. I wanted to live where there are still working dairy farms and life is a little slower. "We do things slower here" is a saying that I heard when I purchased land here and it is true!Time
I took this photo is late afternoon. I had been trying to capture the red colors of the budding trees all season. The trees are red two times a year, not just in the fall! It was a cold, raw, dreary, miserable day. I looked outside and saw that the snow was sticking to the buds. I had to take a picture.Lighting
The light was fading fast when I took this picture.Equipment
I used a Canon M100 with my late mother's Pentax 50mm 2.0 manual lens attached. (Quite a few of the pictures that I posted are taken with the vintage lens). I had to cover both with a mitten so I didn't ruin either one. I also used a tripod. For such a little camera the M100 takes beautiful pictures, but doesn't have a view finder. It was hard for me to see what I was taking a picture of. I pretty much snapped away hoping to get something decent. I was freezing and wet.Inspiration
I love nature. I am curious about the natural world. I see beauty every day. Where I live there is really only 5 months out of the year when it doesn't snow in some fashion. To capture the beauty of the individual flakes and frozen buds in one picture was hard to resist.Editing
I usually don't use post-processing. I cropped this image, that was it. Sometimes I will adjust highlights and shadows and crop images. I personally don't want to get in the habit of applying filters and altering images in a significant way. I'm not knocking those who do, the images are gorgeous. I want to capture and share what I see.In my camera bag
Recently I purchased a Pentax K-70. I love the Canon M100 and the picture quality I get with it. Especially with the 55-200mm lens. Wow, it's beautiful! However, I need a viewfinder along with weather sealing. So, right now I have the Pentax K-70, a Pentax HD DA 35mm 2.8 macro and a circa 1977 Pentax 50mm 2.0. I bought the Pentax in part due to the availability of lenses. With the Canon I was using an adaptor which was too much for that little camera. I am looking to purchase a telephoto zoom for the new camera in the near future.Feedback
Always have your camera with you and ready. I just happened to look out the window and see the type of snow that was falling. There wasn't much time as it was starting to get dark. So, I was thankful that I was all set up to take this picture.
