Works every time…
Great therapy session today.
Stress Relief
Works every time…
Great therapy session today.
Nature
Peacock Road
AKA Valley Mill Road in Winchester. My wife actually drives this road every day and suggested we stop on the way back from a shoot today. Glad we did. Gonna make a point of going back to see if I can get a fully fanned out peacock image. BTW, Have you ever heard a peacock’s call? I thought it was a cat in some major distress. It caught me completely off guard. But now I know. My wife says it sounds like they’re screaming “help!”
One of the many peacocks roaming free just past the one-lane bridge on Valley Mill Road near Winchester. | See a larger version here.
Cardinal
“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
– Willie Nelson
Jay
I’m kinda getting into this whole bird-watching thing. I get why people do it.
This is really not a great photo. But it’s still fun to get new visitors. Still no squirrels, btw.
Determination
I knew going into it that there would be other visitors besides birds. So I hung it where I thought it would be most inaccessible. Turns out, I was spot on. It was very cool, though, to see animal intelligence at work.
Patience
So here’s a lesson in patience. I’ve started a project within this year-long project. Who knows where it’s gonna go, but I’m giving it a try.
Bird-watching. More like bird-waiting.
I just set it up today. Hopefully this goes somewhere.
It turns out that the beast of a sycamore tree in our back yard is going to play host to my new project. And here’s the cool part – I can shoot it from inside the house. Yeah, yeah I’m new to it. Give me a break.
Right Place/Right Time
“Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have someone click the shutter.”
– Ansel Adams
Storms always provide some great image opportunities. Of course, they present a good deal of danger as well.
Man’s (and Woman’s) Best Friend
A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.
– Bob Barker
I had to take their picture because they have the same taste in colors.
Horse
A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
– Pam Brown
Ran across this guy on my shoot out in Clarke County this morning. What a great morning to be out shooting.
Sure Sign
I know most people try to avoid having them in their yards. I leave them so I know for sure that Spring is here. Yeah, that’s my story…
A sure sign that Spring has “sprung”
Almost There…
It’s pretty awesome how quickly and timely (for the Apple Blossom Festival) all the flowers and trees just pop around here.
Family Time
Nothing like getting together with cousins and playing until you just drop ‘cuz you’re dog-tired.
Waldo and Russell – 1st cousins.
Bucket List
So my wife told me that she wants to put a visit to Holland (when all the tulips bloom) on her bucket list. I could do that.
I think this time it’s gonna stick (referring to Spring, of course).
Spring
“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”
– Mark Twain
It’s A Small World
Just having some fun with my extreme wide-angle fisheye lens. Actually a lot of my interior architecture images these days are shot with this lens. The end results have some pretty severe angles of view, but I try to not create them with the extreme, stereotypical, fisheye bulge that most people associate with this type of lens. The trick begins when shooting the images and making sure that the horizon looks real. I’m always looking for scenes where there is a natural built-in curve to the image – the fisheye lens can then enhance the scene. My favorite example is the image from the staircase in our local library – Handley Regional Library.
I usually try to avoid this look, but was just having fun here with this one.
God Rays
One last look at the Florida beaches before I left. My kids used to call this sunlight pattern “God Rays.” Whatever you call it, there’s no denying the fact that it’s an incredible sight.
The wonderful thing about the sun rising or setting is that it’s really never the same.
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Palm Sunday
This one is in an effort to be more timely with my photos. It is, after all, Palm Sunday.
How timely is this? Another great sunset captured. Order a print of this image.
The Eyes Have It
I revisited this one from a couple of years ago and processed it very differently because there was just something about it that was so intense. As I got into it I realized that it was the eyes. Doesn’t it feel like he’s staring into your soul?
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“Smell The Roses”
It’s refreshing to have the opportunity to slow down and take notice of the very mundane stuff ‘cuz the mundane stuff can be cool. This is the stuff you drive past going to work everyday. It’s the stuff you miss while you’re frantically running your errands for the week. You may even run right past it on your daily jog. Slow down, or even stop, and just take it in. There’s so much fascinating stuff out there. How can I ever get “blocked” as a photographer when stuff like this exists around every corner. It may not be interesting to anybody else, but it is to me. So there. You see me with my camera pointed at something, anything, and you wonder “what the heck?” Well, now you know.
I’ve been walking by these trees for about 3 months now every morning while I walk my dog and have been fascinated with them every time.
Looks like the desert camo that the military wears these days, doesn’t it?
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