Archive for the 'Photography' Category

Calendar update

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

K and I received our copies of the Yellowstone calendar and they look great.  I’m happy with both the images we selected and also the printing – which was great.  As I mentioned earlier, we went with Zazzle for doing the printing and couldn’t be happier.  My mom got the ones for the folks in [...]

Yellowstone calendar pictures

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Time to assemble the annual Yellowstone calendar.   This year I had a bit of a deadline (and not the shipping deadline this year!).  The company I ordered from (Zazzle) was having a 44% off deal, which expires around 3am.  Unfortunately, because of my grandfather’s death, I never did get around to processing the pictures from [...]

Sierra and the case of the uncomfortable pillow

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

One of our dogs, Darwin, likes sleeping on the floor.  He’ll occasionally sleep on the couch or on his dog bed, but then he gets too hot and moves to the floor.  The other dog, Sierra (named after either the Sierra Nevada Mountains as beautifully described by John Muir or the brewery named after the [...]

William Wallace on wildlife releases

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

They may take our rehabilitation bins, but they’ll never take… our FREEDOM!
On Sunday, K release some baby water turtles that she had been over-wintering.  Fortunately, we’re all of a mile from a good place at which to release turtles, Jordan Lake, so we didn’t have to drive too far.
The big one in the image set [...]

Snow pictures

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Last week (on Inauguration Day no less), we got about 7″ of snow out at the house.  I just uploaded the pictures this morning.  Some of my favorites are below, the rest are in the gallery.

If nothing else, the dogs sure did seem to enjoy the snow. 

front yard birding

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Using a bit of leftover birthday money, I bought some new camera equipment.  Nothing particularly sexy like a big long lens (what do you mean by homoerotic?).  I bought a set of carbon fiber tripod legs that weigh about 3 pounds instead of the 6 pounds of my old tripod legs – that should make [...]

Thinking about camera equipment

Friday, November 14th, 2008

I started taking photography more seriously about ten years ago.  I put down my cheap point and shoot film camera and bought an SLR body, a few lenses and some slide film.  The great thing about shooting film (slide or print) is that you aren’t constrained by the quality of your camera.  My first SLR [...]

Wildlife rehab porn

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

It’s okay to look, I promise that there are no shots of me doing naked cage construction. *shudder*
A couple of months ago, K got a call about a squirrel.  When the folks brought it over, it turned out to be rather small, but pretty far along in its development.  Well, that’s because it was a [...]

Yellowstone pictures – part 2 of 2 (updated)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

update: and for those that prefer a better interface, all of the pictures in gallery

Yellowstone pictures – part 1 of 2

Friday, June 20th, 2008

I haven’t finished processing all of the Yellowstone pictures – it takes a bit of work to get the color balance set right.  (THM – that’s why I always shoot raw on the D80.  It gives me more freedom to get the image “right” later.)  But at least the first half is done.  I’ll post [...]