Grandfather Mountain and Blowing Rock
Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Places, Nature, Animals | 1 Comment »I've been in North Carolina for over 11 years now and have made my first trips to Blowing Rock in the past few weeks. The first was to visit Tweetsie with the family. This time was to go ...
Spring has sprung
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in Nature, Macro | 1 Comment »It took a while, but spring is officially here. The dogwoods have bloomed along with the azaleas. I spent a few minutes outside with the 28-70/2.8 and an extension ring. The last shot in the gallery was without ...
Favorite of the Eclipse
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Nature | No Comments »This is my favorite from last night. I just changed the WB to sunlight to warm it up. It made it a bit too warm so I backed it off a bit. It's a pity that the next eclipse ...
The 2/20/08 eclipse in sequence
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Nature, Workflow | No Comments »Here are some shots of tonight's eclipse in process. All shot with the 70-300 VR handheld - leaning on a fence though. Not too bad considering two of the full eclipse shots were at 1/4 sec and 300mm.
Lonely tree
Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted in Nature | No Comments »Just a lonely, dark, cold tree at a park close to home.
Flowers via telephoto
Sunday, June 10th, 2007 Posted in Nature, Macro | No Comments »Here are a couple of flower shots with the 70-300mm VR. All handheld with VR on. I'm still very happy with this lens...especially outdoors. The only post processing I did on these was a bit of sharpening and saturation ...
Not one but tulips.
Friday, December 8th, 2006 Posted in Nature | 2 Comments »This was one of the first pictures I took from my D50. I was using a borrowed 50mm 1.8 in the spring when the tulips were peaking. I didn't do any post-processing or sharpening to these...at the time I was ...