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Spring into Summer
{click image to view large} I’m still having fun with my new lens. Just after surise the other day, there was zero wind, dew on the flowers, and a nice backlight on this subject. Classic, but who can...
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Belle Fleur
{click image to view large} Pretty flowers I couldn’t resist! The violet blossoms in the foreground are campanula, or “Bellflower”. :) ●●● Nikon D300; 1/60 sec @ f5.6, ISO 3200 (handheld); 70-300 mm...
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Early Fall
{click image to view large} On an overcast morning after heavy rain, this fall of red crab apples was vivid! ●●● Nikon D300; 1/30 sec @ f11, ISO 3200 (handheld); 18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 42mm (63mm EFL);...
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Storm Clouds
Cloud Play №7 {click image to view large} Nikon D300; 1/60 sec @ f11, ISO 560 (handheld); 18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 18mm (27mm EFL) ●●● Cloud Play №6 {click image to view large} Nikon D300; 1/250 sec @...
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Autumn Glow
{click image to view large} What a pleasure to become immersed in this color and light for a time… ●●● Nikon D300; 1/125 sec @ f9.5, ISO 200 (handheld); 18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 200mm (300mm EFL); focus...
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Untitled
I like this image for its quiet nature and the blurring of lines between worlds. These fish aren’t actually swimming through plants in the pool, but through their reflections. ●●● Nikon D300; 1/125...
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Crabapple Blossoms
When I started practicing Miksang three years ago, we were instructed to “boycott your default position”. Sometimes, however, I just have to capture classic beauty in a traditional way. The light on...
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Storm
Nikon D300; 1/125 sec @ f8, ISO 560 (handheld); 18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 27mm (40mm EFL) ●●● Nikon D300; 1/125 sec @ f8, ISO 500 (handheld); 18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 26mm (39mm EFL) ●●● Just the other day…...
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“Ordinary” Magic
{click image to view large} I’ve enjoyed playing in the sandbox of Photoshop since the first version for Windows was released in 1992, and can imagine there must be a way to digitally create this...
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Cloudplay №10 (Mirrored)
{click image to view large} Just the other day, shortly after sunrise, the waves of Lake Michigan were washing high over beaches near my home. Storm clouds reflected briefly in the backwash, before...
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Unlovely
Referring to her nineteen month old toddler, Alexandra Horowitz writes: “He was blessed with the ability to admire the unlovely. Or, I should say, he was blessed with the inability to feel that there...
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Taking Flight
Frost №4 (January 23, 2014 @ 10:11 AM) {click images to view large} A handheld series photographed one morning in changing light. During the (first) incursion of the Polar Vortex this January,...
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Snowbound
{click image to view large} Chicago has officially topped the 5 foot mark for snowfall this winter…so far. We’ve also “enjoyed” 19 days of sub-zero temperatures, with more just ahead and high...
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Grey-blue
{click image to view large} Stepping outside to run errands, I discovered this present on our front steps. Except for a very light touch of contrast and sharpening in post-processing, this image is as...
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Fog (April 29, 2014)
{click image to view large} ●●● Nikon D300; 1/145 sec @ f11, ISO 250 (handheld); 18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 105mm (157mm EFL); focus distance 33.5m This wasn’t exactly what I “expected” to see on a foggy...
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Flowering Crabapples
Spring has finally arrived in Chicago, after a long and unusually harsh winter. Yes, these are “flowers”—so difficult to see and photograph in a way that is fresh, that’s not similar to the thousands...
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Starting Fresh
{click image to view full screen} I’m testing a new layout and some WordPress plugins which will (hopefully) make it easier for me to post more often. “Simplify, simplify, simplify” is my current...
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Birds on a Wire
For three days I watched this flock gather each morning on the same set of poles and wires, and stay into the afternoon. (The overflow crowd spilled onto the next set of poles down the road.) A...
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Cloudplay №10 (Mirrored)
{click image to view large} Just the other day, shortly after sunrise, the waves of Lake Michigan were washing high over beaches near my home. Storm clouds reflected briefly in the backwash, before...
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Unlovely
Referring to her nineteen month old toddler, Alexandra Horowitz writes: “He was blessed with the ability to admire the unlovely. Or, I should say, he was blessed with the inability to feel that there...
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