Sky Watch: Berries and Sky
December 18th, 2008 by Leora
Hawthorn trees with beautiful crimson berries are all over Highland Park. This particular beauty is on Lawrence. Click on any of these to enlarge.
I couldn’t resist another post of hawthorn berry photos (see previous hawthorn berry tree).
This is as about as close as I can get to those berries without producing a blurry image (anyone want to buy me a new camera? The ones in the $3,000 range would do fine).
Same photo as above, cropped closer so it looks larger (thanks, Robin, for the idea).
This shot shows the thorns well.
It snowed two days ago, so I went around the corner to my local hawthorn tree and photographed these. Nice contrast to the bluer sky above.
I’m working on a post of Donaldson Park for My World, and I thought I’d throw in a sky above the park.
And here’s a gull, flying over the Raritan River.
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You are early. Lovely series. I wish I had seen a bit of blue sky since last week’s SWF.
Very lovely. I particularly like that closeup with its vibrant red berries. Are you able to crop to simulate getting in closer, or does it get too blurry? I actually “cheated” that way with my raindrop shot. Looks great as long as you don’t enlarge it too much
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>to simulate getting in closer
Thanks, Robin, I’ll give it a try!
Leora your photographs are so full of life. Even with the leaves gone, the plump red berries show a tree full of life. The grey sky is stimulated by the lovely gull climbing in flight. Interesting shots-everyone of them.
I love the vivid red against the blue…so pretty!
These are fantastic shots, thanks for sharing with us.
Cheers!
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Great composition. Happy SWF!
Great shots. I am wishing Santa would bring me a high tech five paychecks costing camera, but for now I have to make do with my point and shoot.
Happy holidays.
The berries are such a gorgeous shade of red. The birds have eaten ALL of mine, every single haw! Happy Sky Watch!
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Beautiful color on this pictures! Happy weekend and SkyWatch from Norway
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Those look remarkably like something we have down here, except the local version has berries that are a little flatter and a little more orange and I don’t think the trees grow quite so large. But the thorns? Yeah, they look just like yours. And for the life of me I can’t remember what they’re called just now. Could be a variant of the Hawthorn though. Certainly a cousin at least.
Nice job capturing these. I love the red against the blue like you have it.
the berries against the sky make a very nice contrast. thanks for sharing.
Hello Leora. I love the red berries clinging to the bare branches. I wish we had them here so I can decorate my wreath! Have a great day.
Very nice, Leora. I love these shots!
What a lovely contrast between the blue, blue skies and the red of the Hawthorne berries. Very nice Sky Watch photos.
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Great shots. Delightful. Thank you for sharing.
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Love these images. Especially the first one. Lovely tree and berries and gorgeous sky too. Also like the one nearly at the bottom with the light whisps of cloud floating over the blue.
Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Leora: We are never so old that we can’t learn a new camera trick. Those were some neat shots of a blue sky.
Wonderful set of pictures…Well done!…
Merry Christmas!
I love the little red berries against that nice blue sky
Your photos are awesome and I love the colour of the sky. Happy SWF/
The berries are so intriguing, I almost forgot to look at the sky! Lovely shots.
Lovely series of shots.
The red berries against the blue look beautiful!
Lovely colour contrast between sky and berries, really like the way you bring your subject forward.
Ooh – I love the red against blue . . . and the shot with drops of water on the little berries is brilliant. Simply beautiful. Happy SWF!
You love those berries, don’t you? You’re right, they do look great against that gorgeous blue sky!
a nice series of berry shots…always enjoy compositions with red berries against the blue sky…lovely.
A beautiful series of sky shots!
The red berries against the blue sky is a gorgeous contrast.
Loved the cropping idea.
The berries are perfect with the blue sky. I hope you don’t get the freezing rain which is so much more difficult to deal with than the snow…be careful…
Beautiful pictures! A Happy Chanukah for you and those you love