Pink Bee Balm

Hot Blossom

Jalapeño pepper blossom. Iso 80, 1/500th @ f-8.

Blazing Nasturtium

I like the way orange nasturtiums look like flames in their centers. The great detail and depth of field is from focus stacking 45 images and merging them together in Zerene Stacker. My image was then finished off in Aurora HDR Pro and Photoshop CC. Iso 80, 1/500th @ f-8.

Female lion and cub.

Glorious Glories

Wild white morning glory growing in our gardens.

Spider Nation

Macro image of a Spider showing it's many eyes. Interesting? or Creepy? You make the call.

Lion

Buffalo Zoo lion.

Coreopsis

Focus stacked sixty images for the top photo and twenty nine images to complete the bottom photo. Changed the background color and added a custom texture on the bottom image also. Coreopsis is a tiny flower usually measures about one half inch or smaller.

Russian Sage

Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia)

Prince at Rest

I used my Canon Powershot SX50 HS to zoom to about 2000mm ( 35mm Equivalent ) to get this close up look of the zoo's newest additions. The lions are approximately 85ft from the camera. The canon makes a great lightweight choice when you need a lot of reach from your lens. I still prefer this later edition to newer ones because of its incredible reach( macro to 4800mm), it shoots RAW, it has a hot shoe, and it flash syncs up to 1/800 of second. When I find another that meets those standards I will upgrade. Nikon is coming out with a Nikon DL with a 1 inch backlit sensor that I am very interested in for an upgrade.

Sleeping Prince

Lion cub sleeps the day away. Taken at the Buffalo Zoo.

Ageratum

An old fashion garden favorite is this tiny fairy ageratum. This macro was made from 22 images focus stacked in Zerene Stacker and finished with Aurora HDR Pro.

Eagle

Bald eagle profile.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Hairy spider was lurking in my garage. I focus stacked 32 images in Zerene Stacker and finished the image in Aurora HDR Pro and Photoshop CC.

I changed the background color and used 44 focus stacked images and got a sharper, deeper image.

The Mill

The Wallace Cross Mill makes an interesting subject. I shot from a low vantage point so I could get the mill reflecting in the water.

Big Sky

This is a two image panorama I made while in central Pennsylvania.

Hotel cira 1880

The hotel Codorus overlooks the Codorus creek in York. I liked the way the evening sun illuminated the hanging flower baskets along the bridge on Market Street.

Bumble Bumble

Macro close up study of a bumblebee. Focus stacked 32 images in Zerene Stacker and finished off with Aurora HDR Pro.

Cross Mill Road

Early morning shot up the Cross Mill road.

Bumblebee

This bumblebee extracts nectar from a dandelion.

Chautauqua Lake

This is a four image panorama merged together in Photoshop CC and finished in Aurora HDR Pro. This image could have been so much stronger with a boat in the foreground. I was hoping the boat on the right would record larger and hold my composition but it was to far out and is lost in the image. By the way Macphun is coming out with a newer version of Aurora HDR Pro to be announced on September 15th.

Color Burst Clematis

Purple clematis altered in Photoshop CC with zoom blur tools.

The Lighthouse

I was trying to get a picture of Chautauqua Lake Lighthouse and the sky was totally bald and devoid of clouds. I noticed one small tiny fluffy cloud moving down the lake so I moved my position and waited so I could get this lone cloud in my image. I think it helped.

Lucille Ball Statue Controversy

Scary Lucy statue has been replaced with new Queen of Comedy Lucy statue. Lucille Ball Memorial Park, Celoron, NY.

Purple Clematis

Whats in my Garden?

Today it's Nasturtium - (Tropaeolum magus).

Garden Series

Marigold.

Mega Depth

This image is part of my " What's in my Garden? " series. Flower images have been done to death so I like to explore common flowers we see day in and day out from different prospectives and hopefully make an interesting image. This one is a macro of a rose of sharon. looking directly down at the flower I needed lots of Depth of field so I stacked 39 images to ensure sharpness from front to back to complete this image.

Erb's Mill Covered Bridge

Ploughed

Built in 1741, the Golden Plough Tavern is the oldest building in York City.