Scandihoovians @ Norsk Golf Club

Tonight I zipped in and out of two Scandihoovian gatherings. There were two venues with live music. I didn't want to be too disruptive so I worked quickly.I did get to actually talk to couple of people, one of them another local photographer @cjefko who promised me we'd get together and geek out over lenses sometime.

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Terminus ante quem

I know I already took a photo of ice and posted it a couple of days ago but this morning I captured one I wanted to also share. One of our cats like to sleep on top of my dresser. It's right next to a window that gets some nice sun once it rises above the trees in the back. I just happened to be in the room when I thought I'd raise the blinds, allowing her to sun herself while she slept (can you believe I do this for a cat?). As I did so I noticed the sun was just starting to hit the frost on the outside. As I took this photo I could see everything melting so quickly. I am not sure what I'm seeing in this particular photo but I loved the "otherworldly" feel to it.

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Blue Mound State Park

Between errands I had the urge to just drive. Five miles later I was taking this photo of Blue Mound State Park, specifically this farm just below Blue Mound. I'm not sure who own it but I'll bet it's very peaceful living there. All in all, it was the quickest photo sojourn I've taken...

Blue Mound State Park is a state park of Wisconsin, USA, located atop the largest hill in the southern half of the state, near the village of Blue Mounds. The 1,153-acre (467 ha) park features a pair of observation towers affording views of the Wisconsin River valley and Baraboo Range to the north, the mounds, buttes, and rolling forests of the Driftless Area to the south and west, and the young glacial plains and city of Madison to the east.

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Karmaphala

American Crow

After yesterday's photo of the iron hawk under an oak (check my feed) I coincidentally got one of an American Crow today. I was getting out of the car, camera in hand when I heard it call out from the walnut tree in our yard. I reconfigured my camera to try capturing it and stepped into the driveway already camera to my face. I didn't spot it at first as there was another tree between us. I no sooner focused on it when it launched into the air.

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"Driftless Sanctuary" by John Pahlas

It was another fun hour-long photo shoot with John Pahlas. We took his metal hawk, that's part of his "Driftless Sanctuary" piece to nearby Cave of the Mounds. We quickly hoisted into a tree just at the ever gray skies began to actually open up. It's not often we've seen blue skies these past few weeks. I am really enjoying this collaborative effort. I wonder where else we'll find this hawk over the next few months?

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Ice Macro

I was getting ready to jump into the shower when I noticed the ice covering the outside storm window. That's when I recalled my MP-E 65mm macro-lens. I've very rarely used it. In fact, I actually bought it for my wife to use as she'd once enjoyed taking macro shots. Anyway, I had a little fun trying to capture some crystals.

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Odocoileus virginianus

White-tailed Deer

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