Sunday, April 5, 2009
My kingdom for a tripod
We were parked next to a Michael's store last night and the red lights from the sign make a cool pattern on our blue car. I thought, "what the heck" and tried to capture it but the shot I was going for didn't include camera shake. Here you can see the idea I was going for but there was no handy...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Springtime and babies part 2
Say hi to Honk and Bonk, two Canadian geese that live in a pond across the road from my work place. Every year they return and raise a brood of young fuzzy geese. The thing about taking photos of geese with young is you have to be very stealthy. Pick a spot and wait for them to swim by. That and a...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Springtime and babies part 1
Spring brings new life and photo opportunities with it. This longhorn calf, born the night before is already aware of where its next meal is coming from.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Mystery of the cat food
What's so mysterious about cat food? Nothing, unless it turns up in your cars' air cleaner box. With the "new" car closing in on 20,000 miles it was time to check the air cleaner. To my surprise, when I removed the air cleaner, their was a bunch of cat food in the bottom of the box. I was suprised...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
One Shot
Some subjects require a few tricks to convey the message. Radio control car racing is one of those. These cars seem like toys, well, mostly because they are toys, very serious toys indeed. So when one wants to illustrate the action it can help to get down low, this makes the cars appear larger and...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
The 1000 words thing
Thats what is is said a picture is worth, but I doubt one could describe a frosty weed in such as way as to imprint this image in a reader's mind.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Action shots aren’t always action shots
What can I possibly mean by this? In sports the focus is usually on the action, the competition, particularly in motocross it is rider and machine against the race course and the rest of the riders. But as most of us know, there are moments before and after the action that tell an important part of...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
Anticipate action sports
Sports offer lots of photo opportunities but are also difficult to get that shot you want. A lot of sports have repetitive elements in them, moments when you know there will be action. In football it will be when the ball is hiked, thrown or caught. You know these will happen, so practice...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Lunch on the veranda anyone?
It is still winter here and what better way to illustrate it than a photo of the outside dining area of one of our local restaurants. Maybe if you had ski gear on and were drinking hot chocolate it would be cool. What better way to show how much snow is left on Feb 21, just a month before spring? I...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Give yourself an assignment
Those pictures you see everyday but never take, you know the ones. Today, take them. That's what I just did. I don't know how many times I have looked at the Kettle Crest mountains just west of the Columbia River. Standing like sentinels guarding this tiny enclave of humanity, their snow capped...
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