Thumbnails below. "Small" refers to a 1/5 or 1/4 size version of the original image. "Big" is the original image, a fairly large 3.34 megapixels. If you haven't seen a picture that big before, you might have fun looking at the details. Pick one of the flowers or snowflakes below.

	Small.Big.	Pussywillow with visitor. This was the only place where I saw pussywillows, and most buds had not opened. On this, the tallest one, there were half a dozen flies, for no reason I know. By the time I set up the tripod, they were gone. I waited, but only one came back. You can see the detail of the willow's fur, and the fly's wing's veins.
	Small.Big.	Pitcher plant. Pretty sexual, ain't it.
	Small.Big.	Almost stepped on this guy while setting up for the pitcher plant shot. He didn't move, other than brething, no matter how close I got, no matter how much noise I made. Ideal for my first wildlife shot.
	Small.Big.	The toad again.
	Small.Big.	You don't see this every day: a few dozen yards down the trail was this, praying hands and a bible, carved out of stumps. The wood is weathered.

	Small.Big.	Note the wood grain, and the fact that you can tell the difference between the red, orange, and yellow in the dim light.
	Small.Big.	Note the reflections off the glossy table.

	Small.Big.	Caught in some bark. Only the big picture does this justice.
	Small.Big.	Seems like most snowflakes don't land flat! The fact that this floppy evergreen has so many that look like they should fall or roll off shows how light snow is, and how jagged, to be able to stay on. This is another one that deserves a look at the fullsized pic.
	Small.Big.	Icicles with bubbles in them. The composition is good, I think, but the subject matter uninteresting.
	Small.Big.	The saturation of the CCD around the edges, plus the wetness on the hydrant that evokes streetlamps on a rainy evening gives it a vaseline-on-the-lens/memory-lane feel. But I like the composition, the contrast, and especially the fire and ice. Ha! Get it?

	Small.Big.	Uninteresting shore shot, though nice composition. You can feel the ocean pulling the water back from the shore and gathering it for a (fairly wimpy) wave.
	Small.Big.	Another motion and transition shot, this time with a poor lonely rock for interest. Not enough diagonal.
	Small.Big.	I have no idea why that flat wave turned into this double humped one, but it sure is more interesting this way. The motion seems to be going right to left, doesn't it, since the left crest is cut off.
	Small.Big.	Look out, rock! Good composition: not completely horizontal, some diagonal; The 2/3 light water color would have unbalanced the 1/3 dark shore, except for the wave forming in the middle of the water, and the dark rock in the middle.

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	Small.Big.	You can tell this is backlit because of its context. This is a very nice composition. From the dark on the lower right, the flower and leaves are reaching out to the light in the upper left. The fact that items in the background are lighter than the foreground tells the eye this is backlit. I'm not happy with the color of the flower: in real life it was much more purple than pink.
	Small.Big.	Very boring picture, unless you look at the flower on the large shot. Here's the sheen! Unfortunately, properly metering the flower put the background in darkness, blowing any sort of sense of place. Charitably, though, the composition and isolation from background gives it a lonely, isolated feel, and the leaves compass a nice diagonal bottom third of the pic.
	Small.Big.	A 3-D composition, with very contrasting lights in foreground to darks in background. Even better, the eye knows this is backlit, and knows that the back should be lighter than the front, and thus almost thinks of it rotated, adding more to the 3-D effect.
	Small.Big.	Detail of the fringe that only makes sense in the large shot. Backlighting on the upperleft and forelighting on the lower right give the eye something to work on. Sadly the shadows are an icky green color in this shot.
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	Small.Big.	In the big pic you can see the fuzz in the leopard-spotted throat of this orchid.
	Small.Big.	This one looks like bright light is shooting out from the mouth of the flower. Hardly looks backlit. Again, a nasty pink instead of nice purple which it should be.