Don't worry, it's not actually frozen again...

First, a few leftover photos of icy-time, because apparently I'm trying to jinx this nice spring weather....

The falls behind Tremont are really beautiful when they're half frozen.

Just some neat little ice formations

Ok, back to spring!  More Redheads!

Probably the best photo I managed to grab of the males.

Female diving for some tasty water-plants!

Duck! Or, ducks.

These were spotted at work like a month ago.  Finally got around to processing the photos.  I've never seen this species before - they look much like a Mallard, but with red heads instead of green.  Their name makes a lot of sense - Redheads.

Awww, look at the male and the female hangin' out.

Female didn't much like the looks of me...

Better quality photos tomorrow....

It's been so long...

I've been taking some photos, just not processing them.  Here are a couple to tide you over.  The first three were taken with my new Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye lens.  The thing really has an amazing field of view, although it's a bit flawed on a full frame body.  Here's what a photo looks like straight out of the camera:

Those little ridges you see are actually part of the lens. Visit Ken Rockwell's Review of this lens to see what it looks like.  Apparently it's a pretty common modification for people to cut these puppies off to get a "normal" circular fisheye image on full frame.

Here's the same photo, cropped to a rectangle.  I should say that these two walkways are actually around a 90 degree angle from each other, if that gives you any idea how wide the field of view of this thing is.

And a faux-artsy shot of my backup with the lenscap for the lens that took the photo.

Finally, the wildflowers were out at Ijams last weekend!  I was really pretty surprised, but I took advantage of it and snapped some photos.

Some images from Annapolis

I spent most of this week up in Annapolis, MD.  I took along my point and shoot, and managed to capture a few photos despite the rotten weather and workshop-induced exhaustion.

Our hotel was right across from the Maryland state capitol.

Mmmm, local root beer.  Had a pleasant bite, and not too sweet.

Delicious shepherds pie at an Irish pub around the corner from the hotel.

Solo dinner at an italian place.

Random governmental building