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Monday, November 29, 2010

networking...

BTW, if you're so inclined, you can keep abreast of my recent photography (in case I forget to update this here blog) by visiting me on facebook (don't forget to click "like" while you're there ;-), and/or following me on twitter...

--josh

one second later...

Wave Break at Day Break II ~ Santa Cruz, California

Friday, July 30, 2010

Great Basin National Park...

Went for a stormy hike today in GBNP... (click for a larger version...)

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Thursday, July 15, 2010

A Spectacular Nevada Sunset...

Driving home the other day on Highway 6 in western Nevada, I had to stop for just over 20 minutes watching the sunset evolve and shooting it.

To include the road in the shot I really needed a wider lens than I had with me, but settled for a hand held panorama... it worked...

(click the image for a larger view)


Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Photo featured on someone else's site...

Rick at TodaysPhoto.org asked if he could feature one of my recent shots on his site - it's up today... Check it out...

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Some early season hummers...

It was totally overcast today when my son and I went for a walk, so most of the bird shots I got have a uniform white background in them. I was surprised to find manzanita bushes in bloom (just in this one microclimate) and hummingbirds feeding on them - I never got any shots of actual feeding, the nectar in a single manzanita flower must be very limited, and the birds were moving around very quickly from flower bunch to flower bunch... Lucky for me, this one chose a branch very close to the dirt road to base his operations from...

(click a photo to see a larger version of it)

Preparing for flight (look closely and you can see typical bird preflight preparation going on :D)...


Launching on a different sortie...


Taking a break in the bush...


All shot with the 5DII @ ISO 1600, 100-400L+1.4x Kenko TC (w/ taped pins), hand held, and cropped to varrying degrees and processed in Lr.