David Mathre Photography

This Day of the Year

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

    The Jack-in-the-Pulpits are true native plants growing in my backyard. I did not plant them; they were just here. Mostly hidden in the back shaded sections. The green flowers provide camouflage making them easy to miss. You don’t want to mistake the stem with three leaves which I did at one time thinking they were Poison Ivy. Before having the back frog pond expanded a couple of years ago, I successfully transplanted a number of the Jack-in-the-Pulpit plants into soft pot containers that are blooming this year in my front yard.

    Jack in the Pulpit flower. Image taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 100-400 mm OIS lens (ISO 200, 400 mm, f/14, 1/250 sec).

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  • Seventeen-Years Ago Today. Spring Nature at the Sourland Mountain Preserve in New Jersey.

    Two Canada Geese parents with six gooselings swimming in the pond at the local Sourland Mountain Preserve. I used to stop by the preserve on a regular basis to see and photograph the birds, frogs, turtles, butterflies, and flowers. There are several hikes out from the pond that go into the woods, or you can follow the natural gas line right-of-way path up the “mountains”. A mountain in New Jersey isn’t that high.

    Canada Geese. Sourland Mountain Preserve. Image taken with a Nikon D300 camera and 80-400 mm VR lens.

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  • Twelve-Years Ago Today. Semester at Sea Spring 2013 Enrichment Voyage. Day 22 of 52.

    While the MV Explorer was docked in Amsterdam, we went on a Semester at Sea field trip to the Kröller-Müller Museum and Sculpture Garden at Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo, Netherlands. While walking through the outdoor Sculpture Garden, Mother posed with the ´Monsieur Jacques´ (1956) sculpture by Oswald Wenckebach. I processed the image in black and white to avoid some distracting colors in the background. These days I could have just used AI to remove the distractions.

    Mother posing with the ´Monsieur Jacques´ sculpture by Oswald Wenckebach in the Kröller-Müller Museum and Sculpture Garden. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V2 camera and 6.7-13 mm VR lens (ISO 250, 13 mm, f/5.6, 1/100 sec). Converted to B&W with Capture One Pro

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  • Fourteen-Years Ago Today. Semester at Sea Spring 2011 Enrichment Voyage.

    Mother sitting at a bench in front of a street art mural in Cozumel, Mexico. While the MV Explorer was docked in Cozumel, we attended a field program that included Josefina’s Mexican cooking class. On the way back to the ship, we passed this mural where the blue colors matched her clothes.

    Mother sitting at a bench in front of a Mural in Cozumel, Mexico. Image taken with a Leica X1 camera (ISO 100, f/5, 1/100 sec).

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

    During my afternoon backyard walkabout, I saw an American Robin with a large grub in its mouth. I think the nest is in the nearby Ceder tree. The Fuji camera does emphasize the Robin’s bright orange breast colors.

    American Robin with a large grub. Image taken with a Fuji X-T3 camera and 200 mm f/2 lens + 1.4x teleconverter (280mm, ISO 320, f/4, 1/420 sec).

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