I took this shot from my back porch. I’m sure I’ll have ample opportunity over the course of the summer to get similar (hopefully better) shots. Lightning capital of the world and all. I’d like to get a long exposure of a night thunderstorm as well.
Portraits and Other
This will be short. I took this shot of Tonya and her dad today. I took my D70S out with us. It was already packed in the small backpack so it was convenient. Click on the image to get a larger view. I’m really like this for 5 reasons. The even lighting. They are both …
Grail Bird
Hi all – me again! Rickie blessed us with a post, so I think I can go again – now I hear he has promised another one this weekend! Seriously – the purpose of this post is to ask if any of you have a grail photo – so first I think I must explain …
Burrowing Owls
For many years I’ve noticed burrowing owls in Hollywood and Davie and I’ve tried getting good pictures of them with little success. My old gear was a Coolpix 5700 (8x zoom) and a 1.5 TC that had a decent reach but the lack of VR and good quality optics left most of the pictures too …
The uncropped Anhinga Story
The following bedtime story focusses on luck and hard work. Good luck for me, hard work on the part of the anhinga, and well, lets just say I wouldn’t bet on the fish! I received the final piece of my hookup for my Sony teleconverter to my Canon S5IS on Thursday, and had even snapped …
STS-124 or Discovery Does It Again
Mission STS-124 involved Discovery going to the space station. Once again, another Discovery mission went off on time without a hitch. A stranger asked me if I thought it would go off on time. I looked at her and said “It’s Discovery. There will be no delay”. In a crazy fantasy in my mind, 2010 …