Renewal = Spring .
Though it’s hard to imagine, with winters icy grip, and its cold white coating of snow, just around the corner, for me when I think of renewal, I think of Spring. Spring is the time of renewal. Soon after the snow melts the wildflowers will begin to emerge and the young animals and birds will soon begin to be born. A new generation is about to commence.
Coming soon…
…to the Spring-time forest near you.
Painted Trillium
Pink Lady among the birches.
Pink Lady’s Slipper orchid.
The Next Generation.
And soon there will be four.
Canada goose eggs sitting safely in their down lined nest.
Siblings.
A pair of black bear cubs and their sleeping mother.
Jeff Sinon Photography 
I like the first flower shots with pink and white petals. With a soft darker background. Makes the flower looks fresh and captivating. Lovely…
Thanks Paul. They are one of my favorite, and therefore often photographed, wildflowers.
these pictures are so beautiful and ,for lack of a better word, warm..
Thank you, and I think warm is as nice a way to describe them as any. 🙂
Nice shots Jeff. The texture in the flower in your first image is superb.
Thanks a lot Jim!
Awww, the bear cubs are sooooooo cute. I just want to hug them and squeeze them – ok, maybe not when the mommy is around :). Fantastic photos!!
Pretty sure Mom would NOT approve 😛
Tee Hee 🙂
All beautiful, but the one of goose eggs is a stand out and particularly apt.
Thank you! I would have to agree, the eggs are the most fitting for this week.
A great series of shots for this theme. Nice Work!
Thank you very much, and thank you for stopping by 🙂
Was Mama bear sleeping or “sleeping”? Cute babies though!
As far as I could tell she was sleeping. When I first realized they were there, she appeared to be asleep. After a short while, she sat up, looked right at me (at least it seemed so), and then after a short while, lay back down. Which was a great load off my mind. If Mama was comfortable enough with my presence I figured I wasn’t going to become bear dinner 😉 I was able to photograph them for about 45 minutes before Mom got up and decided it was time to move on.
Oh goodness, I think I would not have had the nerve to stay! Lucky you, both for running into the cubs, and also for the Mama deciding she was more interested in sleep than in lunch!
Love the bears. As an Australian I find the idea of photographing bears a little terrifying! You must be very patient.
Not at all, extremely lucky though. I was camping in the mountains in northern New Hampshire, and returning to my camp site after photographing sunrise, I heard a noise, looked up and there they were. To say I was a little uneasy being that close to a mother bear and her three cubs (there was a 3rd high up in the tree, not in the photo), would be the understatement of the year! But, since “Mom” was sleeping when I first saw them, and after sitting up briefly to see what the cubs were up to, laying back down, I figured I was Ok. As long as I didn’t do something stupid like try to get too close. 🙂
The bear cubs are cute. Lucky you that you could have all that time to shoot them before Mama Bear decided to move on. I really like the shot of the Painted Trillium — beautiful capture.
Thank you ver much Anne. I was more than a little nervous, excited, and happy, that Mom was nice enough to let me photograph her and the kids for so long. I was doubly happy that she didn’t appear to want to get any closer to me, than I was willing to get to her 😉
I love those eggs …. BRILLIANT 😀 :D.
A terrific series of photos Jeff!
Thank you, yet again 🙂
Beautiful flower shots Jeff.
Thanks Liv! 😀
The wild orchids are simply YUMMY, so are your two photos of them! I admire you, Jeff, I could never ever walk in the woods where there are bears… :O
Thank you very much Lucy! The trick when venturing out into bear country is to always bring someone else, with you. But only someone that runs slower than you. 😛
Well captured first image (-: Nicely done.
Thanks Rick. They are a great wildflower, and I have a few “secret” spots where there are a bunch of them.
You don’t want to get between the mum & her cubs! I guess you have a telezoom 🙂
Only a Canon 70-200 f4L, so yea, I was pretty close!:-D
What lens did you use to shoot the black bears? How far away did you stay in order to get that shot safely.
The bears were photographed using a 70-200 f4L at 200mm on my 40D. I was only about 50-75 feet away at the time. I was initially quite nervous once I realized just who was across the stream from my campsite. Since “Mom” would alternate between sleeping with an occasional glance around to ensure I wasn’t a threat, I felt somewhat safe. I was smart enough not to push my luck and try to get any closer. 🙂
love the flower
Thank you, but which one? The painted trillium (first one), or the pink lady’s slipper?
the trillium awesome
Thank you, one of my favorite wildflowers photographed in my own secret spot.
we call them Nile flowers and lotus
Beautiful names. My people around here wouldn’t know what the heck I was talking about if I started calling my trillium photos “Nile flowers.”
not the trillium I was talking about water lilies i think the trillium in Arabic called the crow’s peak 🙂
Silly me, I thought you were referring to your local names for both flowers. Though “Nile Flower” sure makes more sense for a flower that grows on the water, rather than one that grows in the forest.
it’s ok lotus is famous spec in Pharaonic culture