Entries from April 2009

Entrance to a farm on a back road in Amherst County, Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains…
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Categories: Architecture · Art · Back Roads · Digital Art · Environment · History · Images · Life · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Photoshop · Spiritual · Topaz Adjust · Visual Arts
Tagged: Amherst County, back road, Blue Ridge Mountains, country road, D L Ennis, farm, outbuildings, The Farm Drive, Virginia

This old log barn has stood for nearly two-hundred years and outlasted its wood-shake roof replaced by tin and is as beautiful in the 21st century as it was to the folks who built it…
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Categories: Architecture · Art · Back Roads · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · History · Images · Life · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Photoshop · Spiritual · Topaz Adjust · Visual Arts
Tagged: 21st century, Back Roads, beautiful, Blue Ridge Mountains, country roads, D L Ennis, log barn, nearly two-hundred years, Old, outlasted its wood-shake roof, The Old Ways, tin, Virginia
Debut for world’s fastest camera
By Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
The fastest imaging system ever devised has been demonstrated by researchers reporting in the journal Nature.
Their camera snaps images less than a half a billionth of a second long, capturing over six million of them in a second continuously.
It works by using a fast laser pulse dispersed in space and then stretched in time and detected electronically.
The approach will be instrumental in analysing, for example, flowing blood samples in a search for diseased cells.
What is more, the camera works with just one detector, rather than the millions in a typical digital camera.
Read the story here…
Categories: News · Nonfiction · Photography · Technology · World
Tagged: imaging, Technology, World’s Fastest Camera

Poppies in the morning light in a meadow on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia…
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Categories: Art · Digital Art · Environment · Hiking · Images · Life · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Photoshop · Spiritual · Topaz Adjust · Visual Arts · Wildflowers
Tagged: Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, D L Ennis, flowers, meadow, morning light, poppies, Poppies in a Meadow, Virginia, Wildflowers

Canada geese flying high on a day of turbulent weather…
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Categories: Art · Back Roads · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · Images · Life · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Photoshop · Spiritual · Topaz Adjust · Visual Arts · Wildlife
Tagged: birds, Blue Ridge Mountains, Canada Geese, clouds, D L Ennis, flying high, geese, mountains, thunderstorms, tornado warnings, turbulent weather, Virginia, Wild Flight

Wild asters in a meadow of wildflowers…
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Categories: Art · Back Roads · Digital Art · Environment · Images · Life · Macro Photography · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Photoshop · Spiritual · Topaz Adjust · Visual Arts · Wildflowers
Tagged: Asters in the Bokeh, Blue Ridge Mountains, bokeh, D L Ennis, flowers, meadow, Virginia, wild asters, Wildflowers

These are Puffballs (Lycoperdon sp) a type of mushroom that grows on fallen wood. They are old (last years) mushrooms and have already released spores.
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Categories: Art · Back Roads · Conservation · Digital Art · Environment · Hiking · Images · Life · Macro Photography · Nature · Photographic Art · Photography · Photos · Photoshop · Spiritual · Topaz Adjust · Visual Arts · Wildflowers · abstract
Tagged: Blue Ridge Mountains, D L Ennis, grows on fallen wood, last years, Lycoperdon sp, mushroom, mushrooms, Old, puffballs, Puffrooms, released spores, Virginia

…on a country road where the redbud bloom.
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Tagged: A Walk in Spring, back road, blooms, blossoms, Blue Ridge Mountains, country road, D L Ennis, fields, forest, redbud trees, trees, Virginia, Wildflowers

The flowers of the freesia from the garden…
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Tagged: blooms, blossoms, D L Ennis, flowers, Freesia, garden, macro, plants

Looking through one of the top branches of a red flowering dogwood in our woodland garden…
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Tagged: blooms, blossoms, branches, Branches and Blossoms, D L Ennis, dogwood tree, flowers, garden, red flowering dogwood, spring, woodland garden