One photo every day: Update on those chilies (255/365) + Yesterday's photostory
Hello!
There's some progress:
![chilies](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4603/38861858290_b9a77e1f94_b.jpg)
Growing, those two are somewhat faster than the others.
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 150mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.0
Exposure: 1/200 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200
I wanted to post this photo first, but I think I'm going to share Yesterday's "bird photo trip" with you guys as I post, so I don't have to stay up for too long. (I got ill after all.)
After taking Miro to school (Leo had to stay home for he had awful cough and throat ache) I drove along Savontie towards Heinola. I thought to myself that I wanted some good shots of birds, I never really managed to shoot other birds than pidgeons and jackdaws.
In Vierumäki I stopped for a coffee in a quite peculiar looking place and a bit of Steemit via phone. I asked the coffee lady if she knew where there were nature trails of places to shoot birds at. But she had no idea so I left. Well, I might return to take photos of the coffee shop some day, it was kind of nice looking place, a low building built of what looked like tarred logs.
Anyway I moved on toward the Vierumäki sports academy grounds, as I figured they'd have a nature trail tucked somewhere.
I had arrived to Vierumäki at about 10am. (Seems my camera is still in Summer time, checked the timestamp of the photo and it says 11:45) and inquired for nature trails from a local hotel info desk. I was given a map and told to park at the sports academy carpark, and then head north towards Valkjärvi.
By this brook I wondered if I should go over the lake Suurijärvi on ice, or should I perhaps walk around it. I decided to take the long way around.
![a small brook](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4793/26789608668_e70e110909_b.jpg)
Little brook flowing from Valkjärvi to Suurijärvi
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 80mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Exposure: 1/640 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+400
Not far from the brook, I tested the camera settings against these polypores.
![polypore](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4605/40660758551_fc7a71c183_b.jpg)
Polypore 1
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 80mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Exposure: 1/500 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+800
It looked like I was pretty close to the truth with these settings. While it was a bright sunny day, in the forest most of that light was lost. It's a peculiar thing about snow. It makes everything that is not snow appear very dark. Even if you try to account for it in your settings. So I chose to have a particularly wide dynamic ISO setting for my photos. (You must know by now that I use Dual-ISO in most of my photography.)
![polypore2](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4785/38850634200_a5bca61ff5_b.jpg)
Polypore 2
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 300mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Exposure: 1/400 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+800
While I was walking the path I noticed one particularly odd thing. I couldn't hear any bird singing. Not one bird. It was completely quiet in the forest, not counting the distant hum of the motorway in the west.
It was weird.
I climbed a hill, and while walking the top I thought to myself "Where are all the birds?". I was in the perfect place, I had a high vantage point in case I would see some birds in the trees below. High enough I wouldn't have to sprain my neck to shoot a bird above me.
...and no birds...
...none.
![beard moss](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4742/39950927754_7439a075ef_b.jpg)
Spotted a bearded branch, among many.
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 125mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Exposure: 1/500 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 200+800
The beard moss was funny looking so I had to shoot it because I didn't see any birds. It'd been cool if there was a bird on that branch looking at the branch, or maybe even trying to take it along for nest beddings.
![branch](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4758/39765860835_d567df0990_b.jpg)
Some branches.
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 300mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Exposure: 1/500 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 200+800
There were more branches in dire need of some birds to hop from branch to branch. Is it still too cold for birds here?
![birdhouse](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4754/39765859025_364faa7b9a_b.jpg)
Empty birdhouse
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 95mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Exposure: 1/500 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 200+800
Even the birdhouses looked empty. Maybe in the summer they'll be occupied again. (I guess that's just it, we are still too deep in the winter.)
![tree stump](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4794/40618815012_d5e0072961_b.jpg)
This tree seems to be missing a part.
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 300mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Exposure: 1/500 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 200+800
I wonder if it was a strong storm that cut the tree. The top was nowhere to be seen.
And I still heard no birds. No I think I did hear something.
It was just a branch hitting a tree trunk in the wind.
Well maybe it was time to get out of the forest and start heading back to the car. All I got was shots of trees and snow. I'm probably not even going to publish them all because they are all pretty much just photos of trees.
![weird growth on a tree](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4802/39765856395_3dfb1a018f_b.jpg)
These branches grow a bit frantically.
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 230mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Exposure: 1/500 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 400+800
I've never seen a witches broom like that one.
When I was coming out of the forest, and heading towards the parking lot, I finally heard it: a resounding "ti-ti-tyy" right above me.
I glanced up and high above me I saw two Great tits mockingly bouncing up and down the tree branches.
I raised my camera and sprained my neck trying go get a clear shot as they were some 30 meters high in the tree tops in middle of the tree branches that practically made focusing impossible.
I got a few shots, but in the end only one of them was even remotely worth of publishing:
![Great tit](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4655/40618811692_4a940e7c98_b.jpg)
Great tit
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 300mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Exposure: 1/500 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 400+800
I needed to crop it into a third or fourth of its size to get the small bird visible. The bluish glow you'll see in the photo around the tit and the branches is due to chromatic aberration. It's basically the curse of many cheap lenses, and on my 75-300 it is abhorrent. Otherwise the photo is quite nice. Too small, bad quality photo, but still it was a great ending for my great bird hunt. (Wild goose chase?)
On my way home though, I decided to reward myself with a lunch at an American Bus Burger restaurant.
![American Bus Burger](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4748/39765855355_07805722cb_b.jpg)
Bus Burger
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF 75-300mm ƒ/4-5.6
Focal length: 75mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Exposure: 1/500 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 400+800
It's an intriguing place where you can eat big hamburgers in an old American school bus.
I could continue the story with something about an insurance service phone call and our plans of setting up a business...
But um.. it's getting late so I'll wrap this story up and bid you guys good night!
So, see you soon!
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@gamer00,
I see few leaves of those plants are look like infected! Therefore, check what has happened to them!
I see a lot of great photography from nature views! pretty amazing and pretty cool!
Cheers~
I don't believe the leaves are infected, it's related to shedding of leaves ("abscission") in the Autumn. The phenomena of some leaves not falling is something that is still puzzling scientists.
(Edit: did you mean the chili plants? That's not an infection either, the seed shells just haven't detached yet.)
Thank you for the complements. :)
The chilies are growing healthy and strong although I see that some are more hurried to grow than the others
XD
About the series of photos I like, especially in those where we can see some small piles of snow on the trunks
About the photo of the bird, despite what you say it looks pretty good and as you say it was a bird search, so it was not a lost trip
The first picture is very good. I am an agronomist and the difference between the plants is the germinative power and the vigor of the seeds. The germinative power determines whether a seed will grow or not and vigor is the force with which the plant grows. In my work we do a lot of that. And I can not recognize well in the leaves, they seem to have fungi or maybe it is the shell of the seed. Anyway. Very good photos. The ones in the lake are also very good. My favorite is the school bus.
That's weird. I couldn't stop hearing birds singing today. Probably has something to do with the fact that I live in a forest
Those two chilies... how can they grow up so high, they've probably got huge upvotes from very generous whales!
I need to do something like this, its a good idea, it not only gives you material to post, but a reason to go out and do things, even get into nature. Around here though I'd never have trouble finding birds. Doesn't get could enough to drive them all south.
All the photos are good, but I actually, surprisingly like the one with chromatic aberration. The color distortion of everything besides the bird is makes it look like an alien world. I'm surprised I haven't seen people try to use it on purpose.
You have a restaurant where you eat in a school bus? Why though?
Thanks:) I think they thought it was a fun idea and then went through with it. As far as I can see it's been a success.
Good decision to go around lake Suurijärvi.
I guess it is still too cold to find birds outside their nests. I always wonder how they survive the very cold winter.
Nice bird picture.
Yea... well I soon made the choice of climbing on top of the west side of the lake and walked back south along the ridge. It was getting cold for all that wind blowing up there. When I got home I already felt the effects, and come next morning, Yesterday, I already had a full-blown cold. I'm now hoping it's not a flu.
I drinks a lot of ginger and cinnamon teas when I’m beginning to get sick. Also drink lots of soups to stay hydrated. I love bone broths .
Wow.. I think it's more like a 10 photos everyday this time, lol. I still thought you wouldn't get to shoot a bird when I saw the empty bird house. This is really a great compilation.
Great shots!!
yes these chilies plants show a progress & fantastic photography of your walk @gamer00
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Where is that bus restaurant? Is the American style beef and burger restaurant a few kilometres after the Ahtialantie crossing?
Savontie, few kilometres from the Holman Prisma roundabout toward Heinola.
I know the road but I didn't know the restaurant had the bus attached to it.