Here are our photographs from this weekend. If anyone else from the trip want to send me some to post here please do!
This was the only moose that we saw...
but we did see a variety of other wildlife: some bears, deer, turkeys, a porcupine, a common snipe (right across from Polly's pancake parlor all day), bluebirds with babies, a great blue heron, red winged blackbirds (with babies), a kingfisher (caught a fish and beat it on a branch before eating it), lots of cedar waxwings, a pair loons (very close one morning), etc.
The lupine were not quite as plentiful as the last two times that I have been there, but there were LOTS of blooms and many, many colors and lighting patterns. The wagon wheel in the Sugar Hill Field was gone (I read that it was gone last year) -- at Saturday dinner I asked the other members all to chip in $5 and we could buy a new one from the antique store and leave it there but most were going home early Sunday so I had no takers -- maybe next time, nothing wrong with creating a photo op!
There were a few opportunities for photographing right at the roadside (or even sometimes from a parked car)...this particular place had a lot going on!
I was not with Art when I shot this, but I cannot imagine that he did not stop for this double entrendre of the CROW scarecrows!
And Tom turned around so we could take the one of this poor man...
Here is Harold demonstrating the correct photographic techniques for getting a perfect "30" picture... yes usually a cable release and a tripod are required. Tom said to me at one point on this trip "time to get the quatrapod out" ??? His two legs plus the three tripod legs.
The lupines were great, and the weather quite cooperative (despite some bad forecasts for Sunday but we only had light mist (we photographed anyway -- great light and color saturation) and the afternoon gave rise to blue skies and fluffy white clouds. Misting, just bring one of those $1 plastic rain ponchos -- one for you and one for the camera and you will get some great photos!
There is still plenty of time to get up to NH to photograph these wonderful flowers. I follow these wonderful flowers even the years that I am not lucky enought to make it up there. http://www.harmanscheese.com/lupinephotos.html
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