Not Spring

To cold outside for pictures today, so here's the inside version.

School Yard

It's time to brush up on landscape techniques because soon the weather will warm up and I start my waterfall works. This is 39 images merged in photoshop to make this mural.

Father / Daughter

Comparing my son Dan's baby picture to his daughter Peyton.

Trillium Shoot

Spring is almost here and I am making plans to shoot the trilliums on Goat Island this year.

St. Augustine Lighthouse

The Snow Road

The road up Mount Charleston is covered with snow.

Amaryllis Series

Same amaryllis as yesterday with a different composition.

Amaryllis in Red

Experimenting with gelled speedlights with this amaryllis.

Red and Red and more Red

Red is an eye catcher. This beautiful red amaryllis is a good example.

Nice Ride

Studio shot of my bike. I used three Nikon sb 600's gelled blue, red, orange and a fog machine.

Got the Blues

Upper Niagara rapids in blues.

Ice Bridges and Rainbows

A trip to the falls yesterday yielded this panorama of the American falls complete with rainbow and the ice bridge below it.

Dave & Drakon

Photoshop CC has updated the selection tool and it's going to open up new worlds. They added a subject selection button which when pressed automatically selects the main subject. Works really well. I replaced the plain white background in this photo with a textured wood background and converted to B&W in like 2 minutes with this new feature.

Original image.

Big Red

Beautiful pose of this red tailed hawk. Refinished in Aurora 2018.

Barn Owl

Redo with Aurora 2018 of a barn owl.

Desert Storm

Four image panorama of Nevada desert.

Dawn of Niagara

Early morning view up river of the mighty Niagara.

Cinematic Look

An attempt to give a photo a cinematic look.

Studio Print

Studio print above fireplace.

Close up Please

Woodpecker Series

Male downy.

Woodpecker Series

Big Boy

Beautiful male on a tree.

Over Her Shoulder

It's all about the details with wildlife photos. I think it's because we aren't usually up close and personal with animals in the wild. So when we see one up close we notice all the beautiful details and think Wow.

Peek-a-Boo

Always keeping an eye on their surroundings, you don't sneek up on these guys.

Woodpecker Series

Male Downy. Overcast day today. I have to push the camera a tad harder on these days to get the details right.

Pecker Series

Trying out some new strategy in post on my pecker series. I adjusted the shadows only white balance to 20% cooler than the rest of the original image. I like that it pulls up the details and adds more dimension to the birds shape.

Family Portrait

Family portrait.

Woody

Downy woodpecker searching for food.

Birder Stuff

Male downy with his tongue out.

Mother & Son Portrait

Chelsea with newborn son portrait. Three Nikon speedlights with Nikon CLS.

Drakon

One from Drakon's newborn photo shoot.

Our Tree

We finally put the tree up. Yes it's artificial, but it's economical and convenient.

Empty Nest

Macro close up of an empty hornet nest.

Female Downy woodpecker.

great back view of this peckers feathers.

Woodpecker Series I

Male Downy woodpecker.

Eye Spy

Cicada Skeleton

Cicada Skeleton macro made with 18 focus stacked images. Cicadas molt (shed their skin) when they become adult insects. This is the skeletal structure they leave behind.

Woodpecker Series

Holiday House Lights

A Sunday evening outing we saw this house and it looked so festive with all its holiday lights.

Downy ( female ) Woodpecker

The Dark One

Overcast day today. Time to break out the macro studio set up and do some inside work.

Big Man

Male Downy woodpecker shows off his colors.

Up and Down

Same bird as below just a different look.

Birds of a Feather

Beautiful Downy.

Stock Photography

A basket full of pine cones is my stock photo this week. With a white background it can easily be removed in photoshop and the basket can be placed in any picture as a prop.

Z is for Zebra

Black and white of a black and white.

Paradise Found

One of my favorite images. Akron Falls is a little bit of paradise.