Note: This is the first posting of an ongoing series of photographs I will be posting throughout 2009. All of the “Backyard Wonders” photographs I am publishing will be taken in my own back yard. My challenge is to see how many different kinds of landscape and wildlife photos I can come up with by the end of the year. Enjoy!

Part 1 - “Icicles”

There is certainly no shortage of icicles in southern New Hampshire these days. I have more ice than I can deal with making dams on my roof. The extreme cold weather freezes any snow that melts on the roof, and creates an array of icicles in all lengths and shapes.

I opened the window and shot the photo looking indirectly into the hazy sunlight. A fast shutter speed stopped the motion of the drip and game me a shallow depth of field, so that things would be blurry in the background.

The picture was taken with a Canon EOS-1, Mark III, and Canon macro lens. I converted the photo from RGB to grayscale in Photoshop.

-Bob Hammerstrom

bhammerstrom@nashuatelegraph.com

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