Randall's Photo Blog

Last week my son Chris came over and we decided to make a quick photo trip to the nearby Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. It's just a few miles down the road so we tend to go there frequently. It was a cool and sunny day. We did a short walk to the Beaver pond and the Heron pond. There is a bridge across one end of the Beaver pond and I shot this photo of the ice from the bridge.

When I turned my camera towards the cattails I got a nice shot of them backlit:

There was a gentle breeze that was blowing through the cattails and so I shot a short movie which you can watch here:

I also shot the small falls that connects Heron pond to Beaver pond from the bridge:

And this reflection of cattails on the water and ice:

We headed across the road and I was able to get a closer shot of the falls. The sunlight was playing on the water as it came over the edge and I took a number of shots. Each individual shot was different because of the way the light reflected on the water (exposure of 1/13sec.). I decided to combine the shots into a slide show/movie which you can view using this link - Falls Slide Show

This is a single shot of a different part of the falls:

I also took this shot from the road:

We headed back up to the visitor center and were happy to find some turkeys feeding at the bird feeders:

Not bad for a quick trip!