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This Week at the Lake – 43/52

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I can’t believe I haven’t taken a shot of this house yet. This is the original house on the lake property. It sits up on a little hill and overlooks the lake. No one lives there now but it is used by the park rangers.

I rented a Canon 7d for the week from Lensrentals.com, so all shots this week were taken with that camera. It’s really a great camera, I enjoyed using it this week.

I stopped by Radnor Lake on Tuesday, shortly after getting the camera. I had to try out the HDR:

There was still some snow on the ground from middle Tennessee’s Christmas snow.

My next chance to get to the lake came on Thursday morning.

I stood at that spot for 15-20 minutes hoping for some color and light. When I finally decided to go a little further down the trail, I turned around and saw:

He was so close to the path and so close to where I was standing but I never noticed! I was able to get within about 10 feet of him:

Grabbed this one on the way back to the car:

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This Week at the Lake – 42/52

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Merry Christmas everyone!

Only 10 weeks remaining, on the down hill slope now! I was off of work all week this week staying at home with the family. I was, however, able to sneak out one morning and head to the lake. Wednesday I got up early and was on the trails by 6:15 or so. The sunrise wasn’t much because of some heavy clouds so I just headed on down the trail.

I decided to take the Ganier Ridge trail since I had the time and have only been on that trail once.

On the way, I spotted Rudolph!

Because of the overcast conditions, I had to get creative with some processing. I added texture layers and tones to the next couple of photos:

The hike up the Ganier ridge is tougher than the lake trail, but once up there it’s very peaceful.
Part of me wanted to sit and enjoy the quiet, part of me wanted to lay down and take a nap, and part of me wanted to keep on hiking!

Toward the end of the hike, I found a Barred Owl doing his best turkey impression!

It took nearly 15 minutes, but he finally turned around and gave me a look:

And that’s it for the week!

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This Week at the Lake – 41/52

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Snow at the lake!

We got some rare snow in middle Tennessee this week so I made sure I was at the lake! It started snowing last Sunday, so I got up early Monday morning and headed to Radnor Lake State Park. When I first got there it was still a little dark so I headed down the trail to a great sunrise spot.

I was the first and only one there for quite a while. No footprints on the trail at all. After getting the above shot, I passed another person, then shortly later I met one of the park rangers on the trail. I also met another photographer, Charlie Tallent.

I’m ashamed that I don’t have more wide angle landscape shots of snow at the lake – but I do have an excuse. I spent nearly 45 minutes watching a large Red Tailed Hawk that was way up in a tree. The light and snow on the ground was perfect and it would have been an amazing chance to get a great shot of the hawk. He never did come down from the tree and I eventually had to head to work (although already pretty late!).

Here are the snow shots I was able to get:

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The McCann Family – at the Opryland Hotel

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Here are some photos from a recent portrait session with the McCann family. We met at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville. It was really a great place for family Christmas photos. I thoroughly enjoyed the shoot and hope to work with the McCanns again!

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This Week at the Lake – 40/52

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Cold week this week – next week will be just as cold if not colder!

I went to Radnor Lake on Monday – it was so cold, all I did was walk to this spot, take a shot, and walk back.
Does it look as cold as it felt? The wind was blowing and, since it was on my lunch break, I was considerably under-dressed.
On the way back to the car, I did stop to get this shot as well

I also noticed these ice crystals forming at the base of these plants. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before, pretty neat looking

Wednesday I had the opportunity to visit early in the morning, so I dressed with as many layers as I could:
18 degrees outside when I got there!

But I dressed for the occasion:

and got there in time for the sunrise.

It was really not that bad when I was dressed appropriately.

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This Week at the Lake – 39/52

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Wow, tough week! I knew it was going to get tough once winter arrived. I visited five times this week but just couldn’t get any shots that are really eye catching. I guess that’s all part of a year long project, I’m going to have to get really creative for the next 13 weeks….

The one thing that I could get shots of this week were little birds.

This is a Robin taking a bath

On Friday I went down Otter Creek Road a bit and watched the geese

Now a geese taking a bath…

Other miscellaneous shots from Friday

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This Week at the Lake – 38/52

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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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Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge – Big Sandy Unit

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This past Saturday I met up with a few local photographers again and headed out to the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge near Big Sandy or Paris, Tennessee
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It was a beautiful day and we saw a few bald eagles. They were out of the range of my 70-200 but still awesome to see!

The lead shot is one of the views we saw, looking out at the Kentucky Lake

Other shots from the day:

I thought this was so cool, the colors that showed up on the web were amazing!

Abstract of the Kentucky Lake

In the shot: Titus Bartos

I had never seen an armadillo before, there were TONS of them there!

This Week at the Lake – 37/52

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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 – 36/52

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So here’s a first for my Radnor Lake project! I was at the lake for the sunrise last Saturday and I actually saw 3 beavers swimming around near the shore. I watched one of them eat, then I took this shot of one that swam close to me. I think that’s when they realized I was there because the started swimming in circles and hitting their tails on the water.

I got a few other shots early that morning:

After that, I met up with a few people from the Nashville Photography Meetup Group as well as a few people I met in the Radnor Lake Group on flickr. Half way around the lake, we had a Red Tailed hawk fly right by us! He landed in a tree a ways away. When we caught up to him, he took off chasing a bird:
This is the best I could get this time. Before this project is through I’m going to get a good shot of one of these hawks…

I little while later, we spotted this barred owl:

(Thanks to Scott, aka Mugmar for the extra reach on this shot. He let me borrow his 100-400 for a few minutes)

Other shots from later in the week:

And that’s it for the week!

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