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Cades Cove Wildlife – 2011

June 11, 2011/1 Comment/in Deer, Misc Birds, Photo Adventures, Tennessee State Parks, Wild Turkey, Wildlife /by Malcolm

Here are some shots of the wildlife we saw at Cades Cove this year. Since I don’t have telephoto lens, I rented a Canon 100-400L from Lensrentals.com. Overall it’s a pretty decent lens although it took some time getting use to it. Here is what I was able capture

Bears

Snakes

Other

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This Week at the Lake – 51/52

February 26, 2011/4 Comments/in Barred Owl (Strix Varia), Black and White, Deer, HDR, Nashville, Tennessee, Radnor Lake, Scenic/Landscape/Waterscape, Sunset/Sunrise, Tennessee State Parks, This Week at the Lake, Wildlife /by Malcolm

Last Saturday I got my 6 year old son up extra early for a hike around Radnor Lake. We got there just in time for a great sunrise. I let him use my Rebel XSi (now that I’m on the 7D) and he loved it! He loved walking around with the camera strapped around his neck. I think he took more photos that I did! We saw everything I told him we might see: Barred Owl, Deer, Turkey, Ducks, Geese, Birds, Squirrel, and Chipmunks. Fun morning, something we’ll definitely do again soon…

Here he is shooting some deer:
I’ll have to post some of his photos here sometime

Here is another shot of the sunrise:

And the light on the lake:

This shot looks like something from November. The morning light coming from around the bend was great!

Here are a couple large Bucks we saw:

Here is another Buck taken another morning:

And some more Owl photos from the week:

And that’s it for the week! Next week is the finale! The weather forcast looks good, so let’s hope for something great!!

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This Week at the Lake – 47/52

January 29, 2011/2 Comments/in Barred Owl (Strix Varia), Black and White, Deer, HDR, Misc Birds, Nashville, Tennessee, Radnor Lake, Scenic/Landscape/Waterscape, Snow, Tennessee State Parks, This Week at the Lake, Uncategorized, Waterfalls, Wildlife /by Malcolm

More snow in middle Tennessee!? We’ve had quite the winter so far. I haven’t lived in this area for long but even I know that this much snow is pretty unusual. Tuesday night into Wednesday morning we got more snow so I headed out to Radnor Lake. I got the above shot before anyone else messed up the snow on the deck by putting footprints all over it!

Other shots from the snowy morning:
Caught these bucks in a battle to the death! OK, not really. They were more just kind of playing I guess. It never looked real intense and it certainly didn’t last very long!

I really liked the framing of the trees here and cold tones.

More random texture work

I haven’t gotten a shot of this stream at all during this project. This is downstream from the dam.

I went back to the lake on my lunch break to try to get more snowy shots:

Saw this deer about to cross the road as I leaving to go back to work. I got out and ready just in time! (I wish that sign was a “Deer Xing” sign)

I also went on Monday when I got these Deer shots:

And just to say I saw the owl again, here is a shot from Friday:

And that’s it for the week!

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This Week at the Lake – 38/52

November 27, 2010/1 Comment/in Black and White, Deer, Misc Birds, Nashville, Tennessee, Radnor Lake, Scenic/Landscape/Waterscape, Sunset/Sunrise, Tennessee State Parks, This Week at the Lake, Wildlife /by Malcolm

A very quiet week this short week. I was only able to visit Radnor Lake a couple times because of the Thanksgiving Holidays.

The first day I went was Monday mid-day. I only came away with one decent shot:

I got up to go early Tuesday morning but as soon as I left the house it began to pour down rain on me and it continued to rain all day. So I tried again Wednesday morning. No rain this time so I arrived at the lake at about 6am. I got the lead shot waiting for the sun to rise. Although there was a lot of color on the water, there really wasn’t much of a sunrise. So I headed out on the trails:
I soon spotted this buck missing half his rack – I’ve seen several bucks like this so far this year.

I didn’t get much that morning so I went back later that day before heading home from work.

Soon after taking this shot at the beginning of the trail, it began to pour again! So I covered the camera with some plastic and headed back to the car. Along the way I stopped for a few more shots:

I actually passed several people on the trail when it was raining very hard. I was surprised to see so many people out at the lake in such ugly weather

And that’s it for the week!

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This Week at the Lake – 37/52

November 20, 2010/1 Comment/in Black and White, Deer, Fall, Nashville, Tennessee, Radnor Lake, Scenic/Landscape/Waterscape, Shallow Depth of Focus (DOF), Tennessee State Parks, This Week at the Lake, Wildlife /by Malcolm

Say “Cheeeeese”!

It’s definitely deer season at Radnor Lake. There are always lot’s of deer there but there seem to be an extra amount now. Here are a few more deer photos captured this week:

10 pointer!

This buck wasn’t going anywhere, he had is eye on a doe that was laying near the path.

Other shots from the week:

This one was part of an engagement session I did last Saturday at Radnor Lake

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This Week at the Lake – 33/52

October 23, 2010/1 Comment/in Deer, Fall, HDR, Nashville, Tennessee, Radnor Lake, Scenic/Landscape/Waterscape, Shallow Depth of Focus (DOF), Sunset/Sunrise, Tennessee State Parks, This Week at the Lake, Wildlife /by Malcolm

Not much to write about this week – I visited Radnor Lake on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I was very excited to spot this huge buck on Thursday at about mid-day. Here is another of the same buck crossing the hiking trail:

There’s another to check off the wish list! Now if only I could see a bald eagle I’d be just about done with that list!

Wednesday was an early morning trip:

Other miscellaneous shots from the week:

And that’s it for the week!

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This Week at the Lake – 25/52

August 28, 2010/0 Comments/in Deer, Great Blue Heron, Misc Birds, Nashville, Tennessee, Radnor Lake, Shallow Depth of Focus (DOF), Tennessee State Parks, This Week at the Lake, Wildlife /by Malcolm

Nothing too exciting this week. I visited Radnor Lake often, and got tons of deer shots this week. I also switched up my path there, making a loop that’s perfect for my lunch break. Starting in the east parking lot, head down Otter Creek Rd. Take the Lake Trail to the right. After a short distance, the lake trail meets the Ganier Ridge trail. Take that trail up the hill for a little while and then take the spur trail to the right, which heads back to the parking lot. It’s a perfect 30-40 minute hike.

I did this hike on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. There were lots of deer to see along the trail each day. Here is this weeks take: