Portrait Session

I did my granddaughter Ellies, 1st Holy Communion portraits at Niagara University. These are some of my favorites.

Presque Isle

Trip back from dropping Erik off we stopped in Erie, Pennsylvania. We went to Presque Isle State Park. The people of Erie have a real gem there, I hope they appreciate it as much as we did. The wildlife, beaches, walking paths, lighthouse etc. are just a joy.

Season Opener Fort Erie Race Track

Number five Tizmatized riden by Marklee Buchanan smoked the field in the second race at Fort Erie Race Track. The season opener was a huge success. Turn out exceeded all expectations and this should be a banner year.

panorama of the crowd.

LP Series

Got a free Pirates hat so now I'm a Pirates fan...so sorry Blue Jays but I waited long enough. Light painting series with small penlight.

Trillium Workshop (cont.)

This years workshop proved very productive. They only last for about 2 weeks but it's well worth the wait.

Trillium Workshop 2018

The trilliums have finally bloomed on Goat Island. Here is a small selection of my shots from today. I used my Canon powershot sx50hs with 2 ND filters to mellow out the light a little.

Casino Reflection

Seneca Niagara Casino reflecting in the State Parks new duck pond at the entrance to Niagara Falls State Park.

1st Communion Portraits

Portraits with Gracie in her 1st Communion dress.

Lisa & Jeff

One of my favorite pictures from Lisa and Jeff's engagement session. I redid this with updated tools in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CC.

Red Grapes

Light painting practice. Using a penlight to highlight this bunch.

FE Racing Series

Winners Walk

Happy stable win for these women.

Going the Distance

recap from last years opening day at Fort Erie.

Preparing for Opening Day

Going through some pics from last years OD to study settings for this year, May 29th at Fort Erie.

Coors Original

Light painting with a penlight I created this image. I sat the can on my turned off laptop and inverted it to use the black reflective screen to get the reflection.Specs. Nikon D3, 24-85mm lens, Iso 100, 10 sec. @ f-29, WB 10,000

Baby Baby

Our beautiful granddaughter....Peyton.

Light Painting Series

Doing my take on ads for Amazon Echo dot.

Glass Heart

Light painting this glass heart jewelry holder. Specs. Nikon D3 / 24-85mm /4 sec. @ f-29, iso 500 / penlight with colored gels. post processed in Photoshop CC.

Peyton

Peyton clowns around in bunny ears for her Easter pictures

Back Alley Susan

New project concept.

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.