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For the Birds

My wife and I stopped by one of our favorite local city parks this morning in search of some birds. We know this park well and know that it is not at all unusual for Chickadees, Titmice, and Nuthatches to come eat out of your hand and other birds (White Throat Sparrows, Cardinals and Jays) [...]

Winter Rental

(1/1600 sec @ f/5.6; ISO 100; -1/3 EV; Sunny WB)

Another bit of experimenting with the Lensbaby. Just wait until I get the Fisheye optic which should arrive today or tomorrow!

This is another image made after the weekend snowfall but later in the morning than the previous two blog postings (which were made at sunrise). I [...]

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Morning (Version 2.0)

Most of you have seen my pan/blur version of this composition, immediately below on this blog. I did work this comp with several different techniques in mind. This particular version, Version 2.0, utilizes the digital sandwich (or Orton, if you prefer) technique. I took a single image, duplicated it in Photoshop, blurred the duplicate 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 [...]