Category: Nature

  • Snow in the Branches

  • Clouds

  • Sunset

  • Snow

  • Fall Colors at Schenley House, Oakland

    Hedge of burning busg

    Some late-fall color along Craig Street in Oakland.

    Late-fall colors on Craig Street

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  • Nodding Foxtail

    Nodding Foxtail (Setaria faberi)

    Setaria faberi is an aggressively weedy but beautiful Asian grass found in vacant lots, on roadsides, and at the edges of parking lots everywhere.

    Nodding Foxtail (Setaria faberi)
    Nodding Foxtail (Setaria faberi)
    Fujifilm FinePix HS20EXR.

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  • Ironweed Seeds

    Seeds of Vernonia gigantea

    Looking up at seedheads of the aptly named Tall Ironweed, which in Latin is equally aptly called Vernonia gigantea (or, synonymously, Vernonia altissima).

    Ironweed seeds
    Fujifilm FinePix HS20EXR.

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  • White Pumpkin

    White pumpkin on the vine
    Fujifilm FinePix HS20 EXR.

    If you need something ghastly for Halloween, here is a ghastly white pumpkin still on the vine, from Father Pitt’s own pumpkin patch.

  • An Album of Fall Colors

    Fallen leaf

    Father Pitt usually thinks of the photograph as the raw material for a picture, meaning that the photograph will go through a good bit of adjustment before he publishes it. But every once in a while, he challenges himself to publish pictures directly from the camera. On this expedition, he also focused all the pictures manually, just to see how good the Fujifilm FinePix HS10 was at manual focusing. Pretty good.

    Prostrate spurge
    Sumac leaflets
    Nightshade berries
    Fallen leaf
    Fallen leaf
    Osage orange
    Blackberry leaves
    Fallen leaf
    Fallen leaf
    Maple leaves
    Fujifilm FinePix HS10.
  • A Leaf in Clover