Thursday, June 25, 2009

Steller's Jay



This Steller's Jay was photographed a couple weeks ago while we were camping up at Eagle Lake, just north of Susanville. We lured it in by tossing out some peanuts for it to come get. We took several photographs as we tossed a peanut out time and time again for this bird to come back for and by the time we were done there was 3 or 4 of them coming to get there free lunch.

Monday, June 1, 2009

WATER DROPS


Another blog I read had a post about photographing water drops and the pictures looked interesting so I thought I would give it a try. I had a container filled with water sitting on the kitchen counter then over it I hung a zip lock bag with water in it that I poked a small hole in to provide dripping water in a constant location. Next was to set the camera on the tripod and focus on the spot the drops were hitting and then take several shots trying to time it just right to get the drop impacting the water. I also had a flash set up just to the left pointed at a piece of foam core behind the container so it bounced the light back at the drops from behind. The blue look is from changing the in camera white balance to incandescent lighting. Then a little bit of typical post processing and some cropping to get the images above.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Snow Flower 2


Here is another photo I did of a Snow Flower when I went out again a couple weeks ago. There were a lot more popping up this time and I had a macro lens with me so I tried a little more of a close up approach on this one.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Snow Flower


One morning while the girls were getting their schooling with Grandma Poole I went for a hike along Galena Creek. The Snow Flowers were really just starting to poke out of the ground and this was the largest one I saw that day. I am hoping to go up there again maybe next week and see if I can find more to photograph.

Friday, May 1, 2009



Here are a couple close-up photos of a moth we found in the backyard today.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Doves


Probably everyday we have some doves hanging out in the back yard so I figured I would see if I could get some decent pictures of them. The hard part is getting close enough to them, even with the 500mm lens I had on, to get a decent picture. It also helps if you can keep the dog from running out the door as soon as you open it!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

More SMOKE



These are a couple more images that I did last night.