Southern Winter

Sunset, low tide, Sullivan's Island
Note the psychotic sky!
An interesting sky makes a sunset photo, IMO...........but this is just too much, smile!

Have a very good Thursday!
ginger

Sullivan's Island
Causeway
1/25/2007

what is he?

I did not get a good photo of him in flight. He waited until I left to get another CF card to fly, smile.

I thought he was an Osprey, but from my book he appears to be a
young Eagle. RTH ???
Thanks, ginger

This is a hawk hunting. A diff rd, Pitt St Bridge, but same marsh as where this bird here was hanging out. This flying bird is very soft, no pixels, no details. But I am impressed by the wing spread.

http://upacreekphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/1358534/1/125493322/Large

Bird........................dog
1/25/2007
for Saturday

Blue Winged Teal

Saw Lots of ducks today
north of Charleston SC
Tibwin Plantation (kind of)
historic, deserted and falling
apart, kind of.
1/27/2007
for Sunday

have a good one,
ginger
Oh, yeah, follow this link to a very old plantation on whose acreage these birds were:

http://upacreekphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/2401689/1/125844889/Large

Oyster Roast, a low country winter
thing that goes back to the beginning of time.
You all have snow, we have Oyster Roasts. From the most private to the biggest, The oysters are plentiful. Winter is here and life is good.

1/28/2007




Please see the other photos I worked up of this seasonal event.(This is a duotone, the others are in color. I chose this one for its timeless tone, it was a difficult choice.)






http://upacreekPHOTOGRAPHY.smugmug.com/gallery/2406180/1/126110006

Carolina Dog waits............. 1/28/2006
for Tuesday



Please see new photo of me taken Saturday 1/27/2007 by Ricky Wrenn.
It is a composite photo. I personally did not get a duck that good. For those who want to know, he was shooting with a Nikon. I had a 400mm lens on my Canon, and he had a shorter lens on his camera. In my slim defense, I did not know that "shooting ducks was like SHOOTING ducks!
Photo:

http://upacreekphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/828746/1/3242303#126426093-L-LB

Birds at last light
They flock hither and yon.
1/30/2007
for Wednesday

Mt Pleasant side of
The Sullivan's Island
Causeway.

Full frame except minor
straightening.
regular photoshop, no
pasting, etc. One shot,
not two.

A shot of three of these birds resting all puffed up. For ID purposes, here is the link:

http://upacreekphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/1049263/7/126666969#126666969-L-LB

Southern Dogs series
1/25/2007
for Thursday
(my series on Southern dogs, and their "people" if applicable)


Here is a different perspective on the birds from yesterday, as I promised. ginger

http://upacreekphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/1049263#126752014-L-LB

Great White Egret
1/30/2007
for Friday




Please see alternate:



http://upacreekphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/1344967/1/126590765/Large

Landing In A STIFF BREEZE
Snowy Egret
Pitt Street Bridge
2/2/2007

Dancing Gull
by ginger

for Sunday
2/4/2007

Dirt Road: long walk home
Santee Coastal Reserve
2/4/2007

Maximum Capacity
(see the old sign)
Santee Coastal Reserve
2/5/2007
Anhinga on old wood walk


nice place!
have a good day,
ginger

The Red Tree
and
The Road Less Traveled
(Thanks, Thusie)
2/5/2007
for Wednesday

Santee Delta
afternoon walk
to find ducks.
the tree was kind
of a surprise.

(I used to go to the mountains,
and I would look for a tree like
this in the fall of the year.
Never found one I liked much. So
here, in February, on a piece
of land in the middle of a river,
I find my red tree. I like this.)
It doesn't look like spring bloom,
I have no idea what this is.

Please see the alternate:


http://upacreekphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/1239350/1/128127194/Large

Thusie Done Tole Me........
and I shouldn't have listened.
She say, "Go South Man", go where
the warm breezes blow. I am south, at Pitt Street Bridge in
Mount Pleasant, SC. Best address
for birds in the Charleston area.
And the warm breezes, HUH, they are
blowing a gale! Can't be warm when
the wind done blowed the sun away!

Thusie, Girl, You Come Get Me!!!
before that crazy woman with
the long white guns takes me away
and hides me. I scared, Thusie!!!

Your ex friend, the Great Blue Heron.

2/7/2007

Please see alternate photo: Come here to get your bird, Thusie

http://upacreekphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/2445697/1/128256269/Large

How That Wind Did Blow!
2/7/2007
for Friday

Blues Man
2/9/2007




Other photos from last night, not too many to look at, 5 or 6.

http://upacreekPHOTOGRAPHY.smugmug.com/gallery/232384/1/128654371

KingFisher (MY kingfisher)Good Morning, all!!! Wanted to "check in" with my friend the elusive Kingfisher. He plays "keep away", I play "stalker". We done pretty good here.

ginger (what happened?)

It showed up, thank you!!!

I have now replaced it 4 times. Added a few comments. I have dumped my cash (cache, I dumped my cash a long time ago, smile. Just noticed the "spelling" error.) again today, restarted my computer, waited for a very slow smugmug to let me sign in again today.

ginger

snowy egret
2/7/2007

I have to leave, now, will comment later!!!

Hi, you all. Honest, I am going out today, monday, to shoot. Plan to leave about 8 AM and look for ducks. who knows what we find. It might be cloudy, if that is so, I might go ahead and leave a bit later.

But I will shoot (something)!!

ginger
have a good day, too.

Otter

seen at
The Santee Delta
2/12/2007

A little further on
this long morning walk,
there he was again. Or
another. Please see at the link
below


http://upacreekphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/2465941/1/129328056/Large

Getting Down
at the
Santee Delta

(Pink Toesees, you all)

2/12/2007

for Wednesday

The Cardinal
he posed for me
and I deserved it
miles I walked

for Thursday (still
recovering and bad
dull weather) This
was Monday towards
the end of our
"forced" march.

And I have spent
hours tonight worrying
over this photo: the
crop, the color, cloning
a bad branch.

So, here he is,
for better or worse.

ginger
(I love those red things
on that and a few other
trees in that area)

After School
2/15/2007

Downtown Charleston
South Carolina
(duotone)

Thusie, I'se a sad, sad heron.
The pretty lady with the white guns, she told me to to go
North, and I would see you.

I went north to the other side
of the creek. I don't see you!
I'se so scared. The grass it
helps with the North wind, but
I want to go home.

That lady, she sure is pretty,
but she scares me!!! And she
lied to me, telling me you were
North. Now I'm North, and I is lost!!!

Your ex friend the Great Blue Heron
2/15/2007

I did take photos today, but I felt it was urgent that I deliver this message from the Great Blue Heron. Since yesterday, when I took this photo, he has moved northeast, and I feel his sense of direction may be lacking.
ginger

Friday Afternoon
on the water.
Did I mention that
It is February?

If March, April and May
are glorious months in
the south, February is
the month we endure.

ginger
2/16/2007
for Sunday

Breech Inlet
2/18/2007

From Bowen Island
worked up 2/21/2007
taken 2/18/2007
for Wednesday

I have been without a computer
for the last few days.
After trying for months to fix
it myself, I gave it to people
who know that stuff........so
that I could install things again.

I installed the beta version
of Photoshop CS3. I think it
is wonderful. It has only been
on my computer for a few hours,
and I need a book to tell me how to use it, but other than that,
I love it. I worked this and some other shots up with it.

g

Reaching For The Sun
for Friday

ginger

Painted Blues:
Light and Color

for Saturday

I just have to say that this was simply
worked up. There were no unusual filters
used here. The lighting was so dramatic
that magic happened. (No flash here, either)



Please see other selection
of the same man:

http://upacreekphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/2508097/1/131641869/Large

Bowen Island Sunset
sunday

Woman
2/25/2007
for Monday