Sunday Six: April 19th

                                    Pond, Close Up

I and two friends took a ride down Quaker Bridge Road in the New Jersey Pinelands. Our first stop was this pond. As you can see the trees have yet to leaf out,  and while the bottom of the frame looks calm and serene, the top looks very busy; a mass of tangled branches.

                                    Pond, Wide View

Zooming out a bit completely changes the character of the place, with the reflection of the blue sky now dominating the image. The tangled mess of branches becoming a gray band in the upper half of the image.

                                   Running Water

This is the front of the sluiceway shown in my Mirror 336 Theme image. The water was much higher this visit. I tried a number of times on this trip to shoot long exposures of running water. I wasn't really successful. The places where the water was running fastest had few if any stationary objects (rocks, plants, etc.) so the images just looked blurry. And where there were stationary elements in the image, like in this one, the water wasn't obviously moving. I do like the spider webby effect in the lower left of the image.

                                    Quaker Bridge

My traveling companions up on the new metal Quaker Bridge. The original Quaker Bridge was build in the 1700's by, you guested it, a group of Quakers. There was an annual Quaker meeting in Tuckerton, and a number of Quakers from West Jersey and Philadelphia had drowned crossing the Basto River making the trip.

This road was part of the Tuckerton Stage Road, one of the main routes from Philadelphia to the then major seaport of Tuckerton. Stage coaches would travel the road, and those who could afford the ride would spend several days doing what now takes a couple of hours, stopping at the taverns along the way for food, drink, news, and a place to spent the night.

                                   Moss

I don't know exactly what species this is. The stalks are about the size of wooden match sticks. And for some reason, my camera didn't want to autofocus on them. Too many too closely packed together for the Digic 4 chip? 


                                   Golden Club

A solitary golden club flower. A bit further down the stream were bunches of them. But the terrain was much like that in the Shadows 365 Theme image. And this one is all I got.