A dark and rainy day and a closeup of a sprig of early flowers at the side of the house…

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This guy was hanging out on the tree in front, trying to stay warm in 18 degree temps.

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I found a flock (flock? huh – cote of doves, murder of crows, siege of cranes, and – a round of robins (of course)) – a round of robins, sitting in the sun and trying to stay warm in 5 degrees.

— spence

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I love fisheye lenses. Watching the lens bend perspective around itself – it like a kaleidoscope of perspective distortions and serendipity.

— spence

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This is the female of a pair of cardinals that live in a 12 foot arbor vitae hedge. These guys seem to drop vibrant plumage in the summer (or the color around them makes them seem less brilliant), but in the winter they are bright.

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I set the lens and camera aside in a bag, ready for when the cardinal pair basked in the sun at the top of a 12 foot arbor vitae hedge.

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The blur in the background is so unpredictable until you see this on a larger image – the back of the camera only tells a small piece of it. I took 100 photographs and by the time this was imported into Lightroom had culled down to 22.

— spence

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Fuji B&W shot with a Mamiya RZ67 medium format film camera with 110mm lens.

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I’m still in awe of what f1.4 does to the resolution and then the circle of confusion – the focus is such a narrow slice of isolation and getting the exact slice that actually makes a good photograph is amazing to me.

— spence

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These tiny birds somehow appear through the winter in New England – where do they huddle down against the cold?

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