Happy Sunday!
Only one image for you today and no babble. This is what I saw last evening. God’s beautiful work.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
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Happy Friday!
I have three images for you today. I got out of the office at a decent time last evening and there was some nice soft light to work with.
I drive by this pond everyday on the road home and for some reason last night it caught my eye. The sun was hitting it just right and with the gray sky I had to pull over and grab some images.
I have not been able to capture any harvest images this season, which is unusual for me. I was looking at past years and I always have some at this time of year.
I saw these two workhorses in the field their work not quite done and the soft yellow sun was bathing them in a wonderful light.
I ran out of light pretty quickly as there was a lot of clouds in the sky. This was my last opportunity so I saw this lone tree in the distance and decided to capture the image.
That’s it for today. Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Tuesday!
Just one image for today. I went out yesterday looking for something interesting to photograph. Either my head wasn’t in the right place or I wasn’t because I couldn’t find anything. I went to all my usual places but there was just not any activity.
So I photographed the lone tub boat working its way down river rather than come home with an empty card.
That’s it for today. Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Sunday!
I have three images for you today. Last Friday I was invited by my good Friend Mike to play the beautiful General Golf Course at Eagle Ridge. This is one of the prettiest and more difficult courses in our area. It’s expensive as well but I got to play as a guest so it was a double treat for me.
Truth be told I would rather photograph a golf course then play it. So I took the Nikon D500 & 18 – 200 dx lens with me. I know that my playing partners do not want to wait for me to take images so I have to grab them when I can.
I forget the number on this hole but this is one of the most beautiful golf holes on the course in my opinion.
I do know that this is hole number 9 coming back to the club house. I wanted to take an image from the tee box as it was actually a better shot but there wasn’t time to do so.
The temperature was a very nice 58 – 60 degrees with just a little breeze to keep the bugs away. Puffy clouds with a wonderful blue sky. The leaves were changing and each fairway offered another photo opportunity. Unfortunately I couldn’t capture them all.
I liked this tree that was on the tee box of hole number 12. There was a slower group in front of us on this hole so I had time to photograph the tree.
It has been almost ten days since my last post. Things at work have been so hectic and busy that when I leave for home it’s getting dark or all I want to do is go home. So I’m hopeful that things will slow down a little and I can get back to a regular photography routine.
That’s it for today. Thanks for checking out the blog.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Thursday!
A busy day yesterday as I had another photo shoot in the afternoon and still had all my other responsibilities to take care of. I didn’t get out of the office until late last night but this was my reward for working a little later than normal. My favorite tree set against a setting sun with lots of dynamic clouds. 🙂
The photo shoot went well until my attempt to collapse my pop up background. It developed a mind and will of its own and I struggled with it for an hour or more. I even went on YouTube to see how others had handled getting it back in its small case. I finally did and even thought I was exasperated I still am basically very happy with this new tool.
Today I’m doing training all day at Camp Courageous. It is a rewarding experience and I enjoy the opportunity to interact with so many of our staff. Great people to work with and be around.
That’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by the blog.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Monday!
I have three images for you today. Jeanne and I went on a photo run yesterday evening and I didn’t find what I was looking for. We were losing daylight rapidly so I decided to make some images of the sunset. It wasn’t a spectacular sunset, however any sunset is beautiful in its own right.
I was standing on the edge of a field trying to capture this tree as my main subject with the light and clouds to give it definition. Some young men came by in a pickup truck, stopped and then yelled “Weird” and then drove off at a high rate of speed. I get that a lot. 🙂
I was asked the other day by a friend why I usually say how many images I have at the beginning of each post. I do that for my Facebook Friends as if they think I only have one image they are inclined to no click on the link that goes to my blog so they miss some of the mindless dribble I put forth and some additional images.
I did all my tasks over the weekend so today my only goal is to see if I can capture a decent image of a butterfly. If not I’ll see what else my camera can find.
That’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by the blog. Remember you can click on each image to reveal a larger more detailed version of the image.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Saturday!
I have several images for you today. Yesterday I drove to Maquoketa to have lunch with a Friend that I haven’t seen in some time. After lunch and on my way out-of-town I stopped by the “duck pond” because I saw a Great White Egret sitting at the marsh and I cannot pass up a chance to photograph them. It was a beautiful day with a nice breeze (very windy at times) and low humidity.
Since I didn’t have a suit on I decided to explore the wild prairie grass area and look for butterflies. I am pleased with the image above and some of the other images I was able to capture.
I rarely can pass up wild flowers. It was difficult to capture images of anything that was nailed down because the breeze was blowing things around pretty good and it was difficult for the camera to lock on focus.
This Common Buckeye for example is a little softer than I like, because he was on some flowers that were really being tossed around by the wind. My lens would drop focus and then reacquire it. I have my camera set up so that if it does not focus I cannot take the shot. I don’t want a bunch of completely blurry images but even on this setting there are some less than sharp images that get taken.
This was the last image I captured. As I was walking deeper into the grass area I saw the unmistakable movement of a snake slithering into the tall grass. Probably just a small Garter snake but a snake non the less. I’m the first to admit that I have a snake phobia (i.e. an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. Common phobias are a snake phobia.) So yes my friends can tell me all they want to that there is nothing to be fearful of, but a phobia is a phobia and I’ve had it all my life. 😦
So it was a hasty retreat to the car and back to Dubuque.
That’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by the blog. Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Tuesday!
I have four images for you today from the Sunday 9/11 fly in breakfast held at the Dubuque Regional Airport. Photographing static airplanes displays (or a parade) always offers some significant challenges if you are trying to make a quality image. You can click on any image to make it larger and reveal more detail.
First problem is the event is usually held in the worst light of the day. The light is very harsh and produces specular highlights and clearly defined shadows. Then there are the people. They are everywhere milling around the display and in the background. So the challenge is to make an image with no people in the shot or at minimum keep them “minimized.”
This was the only war bird left at the airport when we arrived. I’ve photographed it before but never get tired of looking at it and photographing it. While I was trying to photograph it some little kids were actually climbing up on the wing while their parents just watched. I suggested to them they probably should not be doing that and I got the hate stare.
The only other plane of interest was this biplane. It had a beautiful paint job and was in pristine condition. Other than the required electronics the instrument panel was pretty authentic with only the basic necessary flight instrumentation.
So yesterday evening I got the last of my four programs ( and plug-ins) working on my iMac. A lot of software companies put limitations on the number of times you can install a piece of software. Even though I had cloned the old drive onto the new SSD, some of my programs considered it a new install. An email to them explaining the situation usually takes care of the problem.
The last program was one that I use the least and I got a stern warning from the technical guy that when I duplicate, replace, or do anything else to my hard drive on one computer I should deactivate the software first. Who knew. 🙂
That’s it for today. Rainy and stormy this morning in my world and that makes for an interesting time. 🙂
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Happy Wednesday!
I have three images for you today. The sky was “dramatic” yesterday evening on my commute home. I don’t know of another word that would adequately describe the every changing clouds rising up and forming together to produce a storm somewhere.
Well if there is that kind of drama in the sky then I have to photograph it and you have to put something in relationship to the sky to be part of the image. My favorite windmill serves the purpose very well. I only made about 20 images in the span of 15 minutes but the clouds were constantly changing and giving me new looks.
Sometimes I guess you really don’t need a subject other than the clouds themselves and the beautiful lush land they cover.
I’m still not at 100% but I’m getting there. Yesterday was a bit of a struggle but made it through the day. I have some traveling to do today so I hope that goes okay. 🙂
That’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by the blog. Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Thursday!
Just one image for today. I saw this freshly mowed hay-field ready for baling, set against some building storm clouds and I had to turn around to take the shot.
Nothing else roaming around in my head so that’s it for today.
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Enjoy your day and be careful.
