I found these amazing images in the “Visions of Earth” gallery on the National Geographic web site. Take a look.
-Bob Hammerstrom

I’ve had my share of “interesting” photo assignments here at The Telegraph. There was the big rock in Lyndeborough, N.H., that we talk about all the time. This afternoon Linda Small of Hudson, brought in an interesting bug to our newspaper.
At first I was taken back. You know - all those pictures people come up [...]

Most nature photography is a no-brainer - it looks much more beautiful in color. But, these shaded falls, in the shade of the surrounding maple and oak trees screamed black and white!

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a cow? Every morning you are awakened before daylight, stand in line up to your knees in bovine excrement, and get herded into a cold milking parlor to get a set of suction cups stuck to your udder side. Sound pleasing yet?

There was a reason the regulars at our bird feeders were away this morning. Outnumbered and outsized, the chick-a -dees, nuthatches and finches had to wait for breakfast until the flock of wild turkeys finished their meal.

Every spring I look forward to the first flowers emerging up through the leaves coating our perennial gardens. This flatbush Crocus plant pierced right through the thick oak leaves covering it - a sign that I better get out there soon and remove the leaves from the bark mulch below.

With a winter like we’ve had this year, who in the world would want to move to New Hampshire?
So, is it true that robins fly south for the winter? Are you sure?

Note: This is the third posting in an ongoing series of photographs I will be publishing throughout 2009. All of the “Backyard Wonders” photographs in this series 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!

I thought this pattern of curled up leaves on my Azalea bush made an interesting pattern in black and white.

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!

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.