Photo of the Week – January 18, 2019

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Well, I have gotten very little done over the last couple weeks. I’ve been sick (bad cold) and have mostly been lying around – not something I do or enjoy very much. Because of that, I haven’t written much and haven’t done any new photography.

Fortunately, I still have quite a few photos I can share from the trip Kim and I took to the Niobrara Valley Preserve at the end of December. Here are some photos of frosty plants from our last morning of that trip. Sorry about the lack of communication lately – I’ll try to get up and running again next week.

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Plains sunflower (Helianthus petiolaris)
Switchgrass
Sand bluestem (Andropogon hallii)
Barbed wire

Photo of the Week – January 12, 2019

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For this week’s Photo of the Week series, I dug back into the photos from last month’s trip to the Niobrara Valley Preserve. On the last day of the trip, we woke up to fog and frost layered on top of an already snow landscape. The combination created a landscape of nearly monotone white. While I found plenty of photo opportunities across the frosty landscape, any bit of color really stood out against that background. Maybe the strongest examples of that were the numerous wild rose hips scattered around. Here are some photos I took of those rose hips, along with one landscape photo to help set the scene for you. Enjoy!

In other news, I had a post featured in The Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science blog earlier this week. It was a great opportunity to share my square meter photo project with a broad audience. If you’re not familiar with the Cool Green Science blog, I’d encourage you to check it out. You can find a great variety of interesting topics there.