Portraits of Place » nature http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog Photographs by Shaun O'Boyle Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:50:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 bobcat & coyote http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2011/12/bobcat-coyote/ http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2011/12/bobcat-coyote/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:50:58 +0000 shaunoboyle http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/?p=2435

bobcat

coyote

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Raptor Over Landscape

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Tree facing North

snail trail

Fern Grove

Adiantum pedatum

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Anatomy of a Bullfrog

]]> http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2011/06/bullfrog/feed/ 0 Brontozoum Sillimanium http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2011/05/brontozoum-sillimanium/ http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/2011/05/brontozoum-sillimanium/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 11:39:50 +0000 shaunoboyle http://www.oboylephoto.com/blog/?p=2096 A recent trip to the Natural History Museum at Amherst College revealed a beautiful collection of ichnofossils: geological records of biological activity. I find these 250 million year old fossil traces extremely interesting. There are some distant parallels between fossils and photographs. These tracks represent small bits of information, snapshots of moments in time, but captured in layers of sedimentary rock rather than emulsion or bits.

Brontozoum Sillimanium

Ichnofossil

ichnofossil 51/8

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