If you are looking for some new camera gear, click the link above and check out Adorama. They've got it all – great products, great brands and great prices. I just ordered my new Canon 5D Mark II from them. As an Adorama affiliate, I get credit for each click through to their website and particularly each purchase made but only if you click through using the above link. Check it out.

Fire and Ice

(1/2 sec @ f/22; ISO 100; 0 EV; FL 43mm)

Image was made yesterday morning at Lake Galena in Peace Valley Park (Bucks County, PA) in the minutes before sunrise. The lake obviously was frozen.

Used my Canon 50D; 24-70 2.8L w/ a 3-stop graduated neutral density filter; all tripod mounted.

When I got home and looked at [...]

Light in the Darkness

Objective: Capture the patterns of bright light and deep shade in a stand of tall pines.

Technique: Vertical pan/motion blur.

Location: Peace Valley Park, Bucks County, Pa.

IR Alert – Reflections

(1/100 sec @ f/11; ISO 200; +1 2/3 EV; Custom WB)

This image was made this morning after the fog cleared on Lake Galena in Peace Valley Park, Pa. We were there for the birds but I brought my IR-converted camera along should just this type of opportunity present itself. I don’t think the image needs a [...]

A Peaceful Morning at Peace Valley

My wife and I were up bright and early this morning so we could arrive at Lake Galena in Peace Valley Park (PA) in time for sunrise. We were hoping for some great early morning light and some birds to photograph. The only problem was that some low clouds and a layer of fog obscured [...]

Eastern Kingbird

Yesterday, my wife and I visited Peace Valley Park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to do a bit of birding and bird photography. The birding highlight of the morning was seeing a Mourning Warbler (a new one for both of us). The bird photography highlight of the morning was photographing this young (juvenile) Eastern Kingbird who [...]

Kiss Me You Fool!

Now that I got your attention… Ok, what can I say? The way things have been going of late, this is my feeble attempt at humor.  After the beauty of the Red-bellied Woodpecker, I thought I would balance it with the “face only a mother could love” carp! The big carp were wallowing in the [...]

Red-bellied Woodpecker on Feeder

(1/1600 sec @ f/5.6; ISO 640; 0 EV; Natural light)

I made this image this morning from the bird blind at Peace Valley Park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I was so close that I could not fit the entire bird in the frame so I decided to go with a head shot portrait.

Image made with my [...]

My Choice

I said yesterday that I was trying to decide which of three birds images I would post. My wife came in and said I should post the Nuthatch, so I did. This was one of the other images and the one I was leaning toward – the Pine Siskin. This image was made a couple [...]

My Wife's Choice

I was sitting at the computer pondering which of three bird images to post tonight. The three contenders were the Pine Siskin, the White-breasted Nuthatch and the Northern Shoveler. In walked my wife, Barb, and she asked if she could choose. I said sure. (That’s how you stay married for nearly forty years!)

Her choice was [...]

Green Heron

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 [...]