(1/1250 sec @ f/7.1; ISO 400; 0 EV)
My wife and I took a trip down to the North Shore area of the New Jersey coast this morning. We covered the inland lakes from Little Silver Lake in Point Pleasant Beach up to Fletcher Lake in Bradley Beach. For those of you unfamiliar with the area [...]
(1/4000 sec @ f/5.6; ISO 400; 0 EV; Natural light; Focal length 600mm )
This is another bird image from yesterday but from a different location – Green Pond in Bethlehem, Pa. As we drove by, I spot two Egrets on a snag on the far side of the pond. I parked the car and grabbed [...]
Every once in a while, I have to toss up a knuckleball!
I take most of my images through a work flow that includes making most adjustments in Lightroom 2.0 with some added tweaks, if necessary, made in Photoshop CS4. What I know about Lightroom and particularly Photoshop would barely fill a thimble while what I [...]
Maybe. Maybe not. But I like to imagine it as so.
This is an image of an adult and a juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron looking like they are communicating with one another. The image was made at Silver Lake along the New Jersey North Shore. Silver Lake is a smallish lake (I tend to think of [...]
GBH #2
GBH #3
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings. It talking about what the cats are thinking or the birds doing and translating the behavior by attributing human motivations and feelings. Well that’s I was doing with the first image here (GBH #2). This was the final photograph that I took of this Great [...]
This came oh so close to being and “oh for..” weekend. After yesterday’s “oh for”, we set off this morning for a couple of local birding spots to see if we could come up with something to photograph. The only thing I came up with was a distant shot of some Northern Pintail ducks swimming [...]
I came across this Green Heron early one morning back in September at Peace Valley Park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Lake Galena and much of the park was shrouded with a thick fog that morning but this Green Heron along with several Great Blues could still be seen through the fog. Everything seemed muted and [...]