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| OCCASIONAL PHOTOS (a photo blog?) Many of these images are posted as examples cited in various newsgroups. |
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| September 19, 2009 — Red golf balls In response to a post on rec.gardens, here is my example of a tree with reddish golf balls and pointy leaves. This is southeastern Pennsylvania. Click images for a larger version. |
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| July 31, 2009 — circular polarizer Okay, I've heard about these filters for years, never really thought about getting one. But I'm off to Lake Tahoe shortly for a week, and now would be a good time to see what they can do with reflection and glare. This is my very first test shot with a circular polarizer, but an impressive result! The first image was at 1/320, a bit underexposed, and the second was at 1/100, all other settings the same, but you can still see a dramatic reduction in glare off of the main windshield and throughout this crop. Was it worth $30? Click images for 800pixel versions... |
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| Canon EOS 50D, 17-40mm, f/14, ISO400, both at 32mm | |||||||||||
| June 8, 2009 I've been stalking this fellow for four years. It finally cost me a bird feeder and a big ol' bag of cardinal mix to get him to pose for me. Click image for 1200 x 800 version. |
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| April 19, 2009 Eagles stepped out for some take-out. Bringing the catch back home. (Being chased by a crow, too, but crow didn't make it into the shot.) Click image for 1024x768 version. |
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| Same day, Osprey came for a photo session. Click images for 1440x900 widescreen versions. | |||||||||||
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| January 6, 2009 Early morning and again at midday, this fellow stopped by for a bit. Unfortunately, it seems that this is a red-tailed hawk, and not (as I had hoped) a juvenile eagle. |
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| November 28, 2008 We have eagle. I was just telling my wife that, if these eagles stick around, I was going to rent a much better lens. As if to make the point for me, eagle perched on The Tree out back and posed for a bit. This was a hasty shot with my soft 70-300mm telephoto (f/11, 1/125, ISO400), enhanced a bit for sharpness and fill light. In the early morning, the bird is backlit. I need him to come back at about 4:00 in the afternoon. Please. |
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| November 21, 2008 An early snow (for these parts). No one was prepared for this, and our half-hour commute took three hours. Still, sure was pretty and, today, all but a memory. |
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| September 18, 2008 Battle Toad After several flash firings, Toad gave me this look, which plainly said, "Okay, enough." He hasn't been back since... Click image for 1440 x 900 widescreen. |
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| September 14, 2008 Halloween approaches Click image for 1440 x 900 widescreen and EXIF. Don't ask me how I got this one. Camera on tripod, shutter speed was 1 (ONE SECOND). Shot was double-exposed somehow, and I couldn't do it again if I tried. Lens was the 100mm macro... |
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| June 14 - 30, 2008 Lilies Widescreen lilies, to be precise. Click thumbnail for 1280x800 version. Day lilies in orange and red, with tiger lilies on the bottom row. |
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June 7, 2008 Graphic example of RoundUp Poison Ivy Control |
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June 5, 2008 The first of a hundred Click a thumbnail for a 1000x667 image. For those who care, the photo on the left was taken with the 17-40mm lens, the other two with the macro 100mm. See Overview for equipment. |
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| May 8, 2008 Painted on or Laminate? The Fox Mustang GT sports the famous cheesegrater lenses out back. The graters appear to be glued onto the lenses. Click thumbnail for a closer look. |
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| April 26, 2008 This little fellow surprised me by running out from underneath my lawnmower, just before I started it up. Once he made the safety of some pine needles, he waited politely while I went inside to grab my Macro lens. (He's a tiny little guy.) His eyes say "terrified," but his frozen posture said, "Take my picture, please." | |||||||||||
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November 11, 2007 (Click photos for 1024 X 768 versions) |
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August 10, 2007 Pity the day laborer... |
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| When installing our new patio, each stone block around the perimeter and many others had to be cut to fit. The free-standing stone cutter kept blowing out our circuits, and these poor guys had to resort to a rented hand cutter. Don't try this at home, kids - one fellow holds the stone in place with a wooden pole, while the other goes at it with this highly dangerous-looking blade. This took days of hard labor in the heat of the August sun. No doubt, this qualifies as "underpaid." | |||||||||||
May 12, 2007 Test of the Rebel XT's Automatic Exposure Bracketing feature... |
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| aeb1.jpg (full exif) was taken on manual settings. The pollen blowing off of the pine is clearly visible in this shot, but not in the plus or minus, which means that either I'm very good or very lucky. The only difference is that the camera chooses a faster shutter speed for the lower exposure, slower shutter for the higher exposure (of course). I can see the usefulness of AEB, if correct exposure is uncertain and critical, but I don't normally use this feature, tending instead to rely upon the viewfinder's metering. | |||||||||||
April 22, 2007 I've rented a couple of very fine "L" series Canon lenses, so I'm a bit jaded when it comes to my |
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