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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  April 18, 20185:00 am| 11 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

Submit Your Photos

Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

You can, of course, send an email with pictures if the form gives you trouble, or if you are trying to submit something special, like a zipped archive or a movie. If your pictures are already hosted online, then please email the links with your descriptions.

For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

Errors and leaving things until the last minutes meant I don’t have pics from BillinGlendale today, but I will soon!

 

Today, pictures from valued commenter J R in WV.

Back in February we had spring, far more spring than we have today.

So I went outside with a camera, the Olympus TG-5 that I used for whales and sea-lions in my last set of photos from Baja California. It has a Macro close-up mode which I used for most of these photos – mostly moss greening up after winter.

Spring moss 1

Taken on 2018-02-20

My yard

f/6.3 for 1/100 at 30mm with flash

Green moss with some older spore fronds

Moss and tiny fern

Taken on 2018-02-20

My yard

f/6.3 for 1/30 sec at 30mm with flash

Moss on a boulder with a tiny new fern

Macro Moss

Taken on 2018-02-20

My yard

f/11.0 for 1/60 sec at 65mm with flash

Moss preparing to reproduce

Taken on 2018-02-20

The yard

f/11.0 for 1/60 sec. at 65mm with flash

These are newly grown sprouts that will develop spores

Creek in Yard

Taken on 2018-02-20

The yard

f/4.9 for 1/160 at 100 mm

Moss on a small rock

Taken on 2018-02-20

The yard

f/2.8 for 1/400 sec. at 25mm

 

Thank you so much J R in WV, do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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11Comments

  1. 1.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 18, 2018 at 5:11 am

    Probably a good thing about not having my pics today, I’m getting ready to go “On the Road” to take some Milky Way pics.

  2. 2.

    raven

    April 18, 2018 at 5:53 am

    art!

  3. 3.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 18, 2018 at 6:38 am

    I do love some up close pictures of moss. Thanks!

  4. 4.

    Sab

    April 18, 2018 at 6:58 am

    I really prefer wet climates because of the plants.

    These photos show why .

  5. 5.

    satby

    April 18, 2018 at 7:08 am

    Love how lush and green moss is, and the macro shots are wonderful. Thanks J R!

  6. 6.

    JPL

    April 18, 2018 at 8:23 am

    The photos are beautiful, and Satby is right that the moss is so lush.

  7. 7.

    JeanneT

    April 18, 2018 at 9:01 am

    I stole one of this pics for my desktop picture – those fresh green sprouts are a nice relief from the snow and sleet still coating the ground here in Michigan. Thanks JR!

  8. 8.

    J R in WV

    April 18, 2018 at 9:05 am

    Thanks all!!!

    There are already some early spring flower pix in the bank too. I plan to do larger scale pictures of boulders around the place, much moss, some art, some bare rock. So that’s another set.

    Friends near by have ridgetops with large outcrops, cliffs of caprock running for hundreds of yards. The harder caprock protects the softer underlying rock, which is what creates the ridges of this area of random fractal terrain. I plan to shoot some of these ridge top cliffs this spring, if I can make a chance.

    I really appreciate the opportunity to have people see this work, and am so glad for the feedback.

  9. 9.

    eclare

    April 18, 2018 at 9:40 am

    The sunlight on the creek is lovely….

  10. 10.

    Manyakitty

    April 18, 2018 at 10:20 am

    Also, Alain, I didn’t mention it on the other Lily thread, but sending you thoughts of peace, love, and strength for your current challenges. You are not alone.

  11. 11.

    stinger

    April 18, 2018 at 10:29 am

    @J R in WV: I love moss, and that one close-up in particular, of the new sprouts, is spectacular.

    I admire your property, with hills, trees, and even a creek! (I have the others, but no creek.)

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