Sunday, August 8, 2010

Manasquan Reservoir and sunflowers


8 August 2010

For today's walk, Charlie and Lulu took me out to the Manasquan Reservoir, about a 30-minute drive from their house. The day was warm (85 °F) and mostly sunny, but not too humid. We did a loop around the reservoir and large portions of the walk were through thick hardwood forest that reminded me a bit of Denmark.



What I found visually the most interesting during this walk were the stands of snags at various places around the perimeter of the reservoir. The opening photo has this eerie feel where the dead tree seems to be levitating above the water! The second photo was from the other side of the reservoir, where the reflections reminded me of a pencil sketch.



On the drive in, we noticed a huge field of sunflowers and we stopped on the way back so that I could take these last few shots (among many others, of course).

3 comments:

Alisoon said...

Stunning photos Bill!
Alison

Leza Nazaroff said...

Incredible photos....i especially like the zoomed in one of the bonnet and face saying "hello, here I am!"
Love it!

Alexis said...

The two top photos are really amazing. And of course, there is nothing more beautiful than a field of sunflowers in full bloom