Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: tangled

(+3 insets!) (this image really shines at full size!) Here's another picture from San Anselmo! On our second hike into the hills, we walked back through the residential streets to get home. Along the way was an endless stream of cool things to take pictures of. I was on a forced march though because Steve and Nathalie rarely stopped to wait for me, so I had to take pictures quickly and move on. I did manage to get some really cool shots though…many hundreds of pictures actually! :D As I trailed behind Steve and Nathalie, I got a really cute picture of a sparrow in a tree, and later a darling hummingbird! At one point we all saw a bird that was hovering on the wind and I got several pictures that turned out! And Steve and Nathalie never noticed that an American Kestral was sitting in a tree nearby, but I did! :) As we emerged into the residential neighborhood, I nearly began hyperventilating with all the sights in front of me. There was a lovely garden with wonderful landscaping and they used many kinds of ornamental grass species to dress it up. One group that caught my eye had some peculiar grass I'd not seen before. I saw that a pair of feathery stems had become intertwined and I couldn't resist trying to capture the beautiful tangle. I usually have very little luck with this sort of thing because my depth of field is usually too shallow or there's too much stuff behind that detract from the delicate grass. However, I will always continue to try improving on my failures because at some point I just HAVE to succeed. And so I did on this day! I don't know what kind of grass this is but it's lovely and this pair reminds me of a delicate sculpture. Kind of like a pair of hands clinging to one another. I am also including insets of the birds that I saw on our walk! Pam, I did a search on your photo stream for birds and my! You've gotten very lucky with some wonderful pictures! I am so envious--even CARDINALS!! Sensational! This collage you presented has me bouncing with joy, you lucky lady! There are so many wonderful bird pictures that wasn't able to look at even a fraction of them, but I also loved your Papa Bluebird collage too, the splishy-splashy bird bath images are just so much fun! I hope that you get the chance to take more pictures sometime soon, I love your photography so much. Sending my love on this cold and brisk day! Explored on 1/23/19, highest placement, #1.

I tried very hard to capture this tendril! It was close to the ground and hiding behind leaves. I wanted to get JUST the "droplet pane" in focus while letting the rest of the larger circle fall off into blur and that presented such a challenge! Leaves I moved would move back in the way...droplets kept falling onto the vine and threatening to dislodge the droplets on the circles...and I was getting more and more soaked! But I hoped that after about half a dozen attempts, that maybe one would come out...and I got this one, hooray!!! :D

This beautiful tendril features a droplet of water which contains the end of the tendril and refracts a leaf below!

When I saw this tendril, I instantly pictured that special symbol that you find on sheets of music. My husband immediately said what it looked like, "Oh, it looks like a treble clef! :D

3 more tendril pictures can be found in the notes above! :) Yesterday I planned to take pictures of Sweet Pea tendrils but a beautiful Red Milkweed Beetle stopped me in my tracks. This morning I was determined to get to my destination! I'd been waiting for the rain to stop and finally it looked like I could sneak out for a photo session, so out I bounced with my camera in hand! Well, no longer than five minutes after I got to the sweet peas, the rain began again, heavy drops plopping onto the vines, splashing onto my camera, and spattering my glasses. However, I decided to stay as long as I could because I hoped that I might capture the droplets on the tendrils, and indeed I did! This picture actually shows the least amount of droplets, but how could I not choose this for my picture of the day? It shows perfectly how I feel about tendrils, and about this very special place, the only spot on our 26 acres where these wild sweet peas grow! This area is magical, a dark spot in our lower forest where only beams of sunlight shine through the trees, and it is here where I also find many of the special mushrooms that I've shared. How lucky it was that I captured the mood of this place without knowing it...only when I saw this on my computer did I discover how special this image was! :) Explored on June 27, 2013. Highest placement, page 2 (#31)