David Mathre Photography

This Day of the Year

  • Eighteen-Years Ago Today. Backyard Springtime Nature in New Jersey.

    In the late afternoon, I watched two young rabbits playing and chasing each other in the backyard. They only came out into the open away from the hedge row just before dusk. I set up a tripod with a camera and a long lens on my deck and started taking pictures. All of a sudden one of the rabbits jumped straight up as I captured this image. I didn’t know a rabbit could jump straight up so high. While hovering the rabbit is looking right at me. For years, I have been unsuccessful trying to capture an image like this again. I still have rabbits in the yard despite a healthy red fox. So maybe this straight up jumping behavior is part of their escape behavior.

    Jumping Rabbit. Image taken with a Nikon D2xs camera and 300 mm f/2.8 VR lens with a TCE-II 1.4 x teleconverter (ISO 400, 420 mm, f/4, 1/160 sec).

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  • Eighteen-Years Ago Today. Backyard Springtime Nature in New Jersey.

    Although I was looking for birds to photograph, I was attracted by the backlit glow of the leaf while on a late afternoon backyard walkabout.

    Spring Afternoon Backlit Maple Tree Leaf. Image taken with a Nikon D2xs camera and 300 mm f/2.8 VR lens (ISO 100, 300 mm, f/5.3, 1/125 sec).

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  • Fourteen-years ago Today. Semester at Sea Spring 2011 Enrichment Voyage.

    Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) in flight over the Pacific Ocean. Viewed from the deck of the MV Explorer while traveling between Costa Rica and Panama. The Brow Boobies seemed to be following the ship — possibly looking for fish in ship’s wake.

    Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) in flight. Viewed from the deck of the MV Explorer traveling between Costa Rica and Panama. Image taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 70-300 mm VR lens

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  • Twelve-Years Ago Today. Semester at Sea Spring 2013 Enrichment Voyage.

    While the MV Explorer was docked in Casablanca, I took the field trip to the Atlas Mountains. I captured this image of a Berber farmer holding a sickle in his hand and wave to us as we approached the village where we were going to stop for a cooking lesson and lunch. I didn’t know that anyone harvested wheat this way anymore.

    Berber Farmer with a Sickle Reaping the Wheat. Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V2 Camera and 10-100 mm VR lens (ISO 160, 24 mm, f/5, 1/250 sec).

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  • Five-Years Ago Today. Backyard Springtime Nature in New Jersey.

    While on an afternoon walkabout in my backyard I came upon a small fawn with spots trying to hide behind some weeds. Its mother apparently considered my backyard a safe daycare center. A decade earlier, a fawn was left at my doorstep (20100514). I haven’t seen any fawns yet this year. The deer fence is doing a good job of keeping the deer out and away from the fruit trees and wildflower meadow. The deer continue to patrol the fence looking for a way in.

    Shy young fawn with spots trying to hide. Image taken with a Fuji X-T2 camera and 100-400 mm OIS lens (ISO 200, 211 mm, f/6.4, 1/90 sec).

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