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Sandy Hook (NJ) Back Bay Wetlands (Horizontal Pan)

(0.8 sec @ f/22; ISO 100; -1/3 EV)

(0.8 sec @ f/22; ISO 100; -1EV)

These were the only blurs that I did during our recent (weekend past) trip to Sandy Hook, NJ. The layers of water/ice followed by reeds followed by more water/ice and more reeds before finally reaching the sky just seemed to beg for [...]

Just about when you are ready to give up…

Cold (17F), blustery (20-30 mph winds) but we decided to go out this morning anyway. Admittedly most of the morning was spent in the car driving from site to site looking for birds for my wife (we found the albino hawk she wanted to see) and anything for me to shoot. After two hours, I [...]

Of Moss and Lichens

These are two more images from last Sunday morning’s walk in Jacobsburg State Park (PA). Very early in our walk along the Henry’s Woods Trail, we hit an area where every tree trunk was covered by either lush, bright green moss or scaly, lighter green lichens. I couldn’t resist the photo opportunity so I took [...]

A Tale of Corruption, Tall Pines and Multiple Exposures

Well it’s 0643 on Saturday morning and we are still waiting on the much anticipated pre-holiday snowstorm. Yesterday, I decided to take a half day of PTO (Personal Time Off) and go out in search of some images to make. As I was driving home from the office, I reviewed the options in my head [...]

Picks Among the Pans

My wife and I went out a bit just before sunset yesterday. She went in search of Piliated Woodpeckers and Great Horned Owls and I went in search of some interesting photo opportunities.

She found the Piliateds and we heard the Owls.

And I found some interesting compositional opportunities for vertical pans/in-camera motion blurs. The first image [...]

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Morning…

right around sunrise.

So we had a change of plans. We were going into NYC today. Nothing special. Walk around a bit. Visit B&H. Pick up a couple of small things. Window shop. Visit Rockefeller Center. Have lunch. Stuff like that. Barb wasn’t overly excited about going. Weather tanked. And I could get the Fisheye optic [...]

Twofer Today

I got out for a short time this morning and continued to experiment with motion blurs and multiple exposures. I have to admit that the more I experiment with these techniques the more I am liking the results.

Anyway, here are two examples. First the straight, single image vertical pan/motion blur image made with my Canon [...]

Trees, Fog and Multiple Exposure

Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving to all my blog visitors.

I was up way too early this morning (think pre-0400). Thoughts of preparing the Thanksgiving repast (I’m the cook in the family) fought with thoughts of getting out and trying a couple of different photographic techniques. In the end, I got things started in the kitchen [...]

Paper Birch

I hope you didn’t think I was walking away from abstracts be they motion blurs, Lensbabies or whatever! I just took a short break. This morning I went out before sunrise and made a variety of images from the real to the possibly surreal. This falls toward the abstract side but probably in the middle [...]

Four Images/Four Techniques

It was just that kind of day yesterday. When I got up yesterday the forecast was for overcast with fog. I was really interested in shooting in the fog so I got charged up… until I looked outside and saw clear skies and no fog. Yep it was a cloudless morning with bright sun. I [...]