Another quiet week, so we’ll make up for it with a video – how’s that sound?
While the wood ducks (Aix sponsa) had thinned throughout the summer, they were still making appearances, albeit mostly the juveniles. Abruptly, the Canada geese (Branta canadensis) joined them, a couple
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot – before we go…
[That’s how far too many conversations go, isn’t it? Aliens would probably consider it a human ritual…]
Yes indeed, October has to go pick up the kids, so it’s dropping a couple of abstracts by the pool in a hurry before anyone can ask any questions. They look a little something like this:
One of those times
Okay, this is one that I do not have mastered well enough yet, and still get caught on – not often, but more often than I should, given how long I’ve been doing this. And it’s simple: Check your settings!
As in, each time you take the camera out of the bag, and each time you put it back (either one would be enough, if done consistently, but both is a safety margin.) It’s not
A handful of the pics that have been accumulating over the past couple of weeks I decided to go with the creepy ones this time around.
First, if you recall when I tackled the jagged ambush bug some time back, I placed
For the last Tip Jar where I talked about making your own photographic accessories, I uploaded the design of the custom macro softbox to Thingiverse, a 3D design hosting site – I’d been meaning to do for a while but avoided it because, well, the softbox only works for one type of flash unit, long discontinued (though
Quite surprised to see this little spud hanging out on one of the rainbarrels this morning.
The temperatures have dropped significantly after the brutal heat of the summer, and we went to late fall quickly, especially overnight, meaning the treefrogs we’d been seeing for months vanished abruptly, and even the anoles only venture out in midday. I found this one just a little
Just about any photographer discovers, sooner or later, we simply don’t have some tool or device or accessory that would make our pursuits much easier. In far too many cases, this is equipment-related, as in, “I need a better camera/lens/flash unit/tripod/etc,” which may or may not be the case – in my experience, new purchases only solve the problem less
We’re back to the Jordan Lake session again, but this time we’re going for the high art angle, better than A through E art, and frame-worthy portraits to boot. Get out your checkbook! And do a websearch to find out what a ‘checkbook’ is…
It’s gonna be a little heron-heavy, since that’s what was most present that day, but hey – herons are majestic birds
Sunday evening, we could see the clouds lighting up with the approaching sunset, and hopped in the car to get down to the waterfront, since the sunset (or sunrise) views at Walkabout Estates are lacking – too many trees nearby. On the way, we could see the sun already hidden behind a bank of clouds but edging those with brilliant gold and a few crepuscular rays, but this view
While preparing to stage some of the shots for this past Tip Jar, I was rearranging things in Deep 13 and needed to prop something up for a few minutes, so I went out into the yard to get a brick. I’m smart enough (and have past experiences that remind me) to check such things first before bringing them indoors, and so turned it over to ensure there were no spiders or fun things clinging to
