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Last year I went on a week-long photo trip through Southern Utah, mainly to get to Bryce Canyon and Escalante State Park. Along the way, I stopped at a couple of ghost towns and abandoned mining areas to get some photos of fallen structures and such.
These are great for art reference, both for seeing how […]
Well whaddya know? I actually finished a new piece of artwork! Will wonders never cease. This one is called “Angel of Death”. I’ve always been intrigued by that name, since it’s sort of a “juxtaposition of the incongruous” and I’m fascinated by such things. The term “Angel” is usually a positive, uplifting, light kind of […]
A couple of weeks back I had my 2-week post-project vacation. I spent the first week lounging around the house and playing computer games, and then spent the second week driving around Southern Utah to do some photography. In 5 days, I shot about 1400 photos (!) and it’s going to take some time to […]
Metropolis Nevada, that is. Metropolis is now a ghost town (actually little more than a few deteriorating foundations and walls.) My wife and I headed out a while back to check it out and get some photos.
I took a bunch of pictures not just for the strangeness of the environment itself, but to use as […]
We get hummingbirds at our feeders every once in a while…but last week we had some rain that seemed to bring them out in droves. Four were at the feeder in the back yard, and another three were at the feeder in the front yard, and they were all dive bombing each other and fighting […]
A couple weeks ago I headed out to the “Ruby Marshes” as we call them, which are located in the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge. I wanted to get some photos of some of the birds there before it got too late in the season.
I got some pretty good shots of a few different bird […]
This is the time of year when people that live around large areas of dry acreage start to get nervous. “Dry Lightning” has been a real problem this summer, and the West has had record numbers of brush fires.
We’ve had a few in our area, and a few nights back had one in the foothills […]
Not too long ago I shot some time-lapse sequences of the clouds over the mountains from my house. I’ve put the sequences (saved as flash movies) on the tutorial section on my gallery site.
These were a lot of fun to shoot and put together. I had to keep the dogs and children away from the […]
Last October my wife and I vacationed in Oregon, and visited the Classical Chinese Garden in Portland. It’s a really beautiful garden area located between NW 2nd and 3rd and NW Flanders and Glisan in Old Town/Chinatown.
You can get information about the garden here.
The gardens also have a teahouse, with all kinds of teas and […]
The skies can get awfully clear out here in the sticks, and a couple of weeks ago we had a full moon. And as everyone knows, clear night sky + full moon = Bust Out the Telephoto!
This shot was made with my Canon 20D and the beast-like Sigma 50-500mm lens. It was of course racked […]
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