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Which Comes First … Camera or Image?
On the Edge Generally we find what kind of pictures we like to make and then buy cameras and lenses that best fit our interests, but what if we reverse this process? The above picture was taken with a...
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Working through the Fog … Prime vs. Zoom Lenses
I used my 55 – 300mm Pentax zoom lens set at 107.5mm, f/5.6, ISO = 400, and 1/200 sec. to take the above picture. This was a clear case where I needed the zoom’s focal length to reach across the pond....
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Red-Tailed Hawk
I have wanted to get a better picture of this hawk for a long time. Today I went for a walk without my camera and spotted him early in my walk. I continued for about 20 minutes walking all around it...
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The Past Distracts Us
This is an old farm-house along Grandview Road. I have meant to stop and take some pictures for a while now so I stopped the other day. The house sits back from the road a ways so I got out of my car...
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Cold & Foggy
The pond was muddy this morning with a thin sheet of ice. We had a dusting of snow fall on it last night and then fog in the air this morning with continued occasional snow flurries. Filed under:...
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Nothing but Dullness
Nothingness I took this picture this morning. I had been sitting at my computer cruising the web when a Great Blue Heron flew towards the house and looked like it was landing on my roof. I grabbed a...
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Still Shaking Things Out
Many course corrections I’m still trying a few different approaches to reduce my camera weight for my different needs. After my back surgery I found it necessary to lighten my camera gear since the...
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Monsters
I haven’t been taking many new pictures, so I spent some more time working with older pictures. While trying different adjustments on the above picture, I suddenly realized that I had created a...
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My Walk-About Dilemma
As I have mentioned in previous articles, I’m trying to decide on a light-weight camera-lens combination for my walks. I no longer desire to carry my heavy Pentax K-5 with the 55 – 300 mm lens. In...
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Crows Reminding Me
Yesterday morning while I was checking photography news on the web, I noticed that there was a sliver of red sky as the sun was starting to rise. Those red areas don’t last but for a minute and I...
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Wait for the Crow to Fly
There are more pictures being taken daily than ever before … lots more. This is primarily because of cell phones. Almost everyone has a camera in their pocket and they are quick to take them out to...
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Bowie Softball with the Pentax K-5
Click on any picture to see all in larger size. We drove back to Bowie to see family and watch oldest grand-daughter play softball. I didn’t get any special or exciting pictures, but the ones I did...
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High ISO with a Slow Long Lens and Mixed Light
All cameras and lenses are compromises. When getting a camera one has to make decisions and compromises and get the best compromise for the money they can afford. One of the key decisions is first...
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Morning Spring Flowers
A few pictures from our front yard this morning after the fog lifted some and before it got real cloudy. Click on any picture to see them all in gallery mode. Filed under: Homewood at Plum Creek,...
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Tamron 18 – 200mm E-mount Lens for NEX-6
I recently obtained a Tamron 18 – 200mm lens to try on my Sony NEX-6. I wanted a general walk-about lens which had a longer focal length than the 16 – 50mm Sony lens. It turned much cooler and is...
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What Does the Picture Mean vice Show?
In this case, the picture means (to me) that the Tamron 18 – 200mm lens for the NEX cameras isn’t very long. I heard that one of the new duck families was out for one of their first outings on the...
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Bleeding Hearts
Continuing on with why I sent the Tamron 18 – 200mm lens back that I mentioned in yesterday’s posting … note the pictures above. I hand-held a 300mm (effective 450mm) focal length lens to take them...
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What Now?
I took a “moody” walk yesterday afternoon. It wasn’t a great time to take a photo-walk since there was little wildlife or anything else to photograph. In addition, every plant was blowing in frequent...
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Pink Moon … not really
A couple of nights ago was the night of the Pink Moon. No, it wasn’t really pink. “This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the...
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New Mallards
Click on any picture to cycle through the gallery view. A few views of two different families of Mallards here at Homewood at Plum Creek. Filed under: Homewood at Plum Creek, Photography Tagged:...
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