In celebration of the start of a new academic year, Kent State sponsors a concert and a competitive array of fireworks. The show was pretty extravagant, given that it’s a celebration of incoming students into one university – an event that seems certainly worthy of celebration, after all, ‘they’ are the future, but it was a little over the top for me.
Anyway, I gave photographing the show a shot; Night photography is very different and difficult, but here’s a few.
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Although the land recently changed hands, this wetland sits behind my parents house and is home to approximately infinite spring peepers and this snapping turtle. The property was previously owned by the Muscarella’s, but I’m not sure who owns it now. There is a large portion of the wetland that is open and free of the willows, and it is completely covered by Reed Canary Grass with a few ATV tracks blazed through it.
I went to Catalina once again to collect flies and discovered that the wetland is extremely high and has begun to flood the road. The road is more or less a dike, with a canal of flowing water to the left in this photograph, and in this case, the canal is probably close to 2 m in depth and flows over the road a bit.
Me voy a salir de Palo Verde hoy.
I made it up to take another timelapse of the sunrise from the Guayacan overlook (sunset , both, and first try) . This time, I knew where the sun would be rising from, and it’s in the frame; however, it was a cloudy morning, and the sun isn’t acutally visible until the last couple of seconds!
