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August Butterflies
August 14, 2022 - Trying out a new camera - a Sony A7R IV - on some of my favorite insect subjects.
The size of the images, and their c...
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Wild Eyes, my first public exhibition
July 10, 2022 - What to say? It's not the Fraenkel, but I'm not complaining. I was asked to put together a small exhibition for the Cent...
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Carrabelle Beach
January 26, 2022 - Carrabelle Beach is most of the way from Mexico Beach to Apalachicola. IT's beautifully open, with stark white sands. Th...
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Mexico Beach
January 16, 2022 - Covid sort of put a dent in my posting - that and having to teach. So finally, we got to travel, albeit somewhat slowly...
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I like my T100
September 22, 2020 - While this verges on product placement, I actually do love this bike. It's fast (60mph in <4 seconds for me!), stable, a...
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Into the woods
September 06, 2020 - It's difficult to capture the sense of immersion in the open southern woodland. It's almost a religious experience for m...
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More Butterflies, using extension tubes with a 600mm lens
August 29, 2020 - Not the most exciting of pictures, but it's difficult to get up close and personal with bigger bugs. They sort of resent...
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Butterflies
August 15, 2020 - Given the slow time (I'm isolating and there's only so many pictures one can take of our dogs) the arrival of the butter...
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Wasps and Flowers
July 04, 2020 - Playing some more with the extension tubes in this summer of the virus.
Even the wasps posed for a head shot. (These ar...
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Extension Tubes
June 05, 2020 - Extension tubes fit between the lens and the camera body and allow for extreme closeups. They're not perfect, but are an...
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Dinner, Goofy Dogs and Staying Home
May 29, 2020 - With staying at home to avoid spreading this darned corona virus, fancy new pictures are a bit hard to come by. A dinner...
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Honeysuckle
May 17, 2020 - Just after the rain, the red honeysuckle seems unique to northern Alabama. (At least I've never seen it anywhere else)....
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Trumpet Flowers
April 23, 2020 - One of the more unusual wildflowers in Alabama, Trumpet flowers come out in the mid-spring, April.
They're distinctive...
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Anole
April 13, 2020 - One of the less visible wild animals, Anoles can change their colors to blend in. Note the stripe on his back - it was i...
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Saturday Night Monkey
April 11, 2020 - Getting ready to disco -- exactly where the dog's left him.
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Spring flowers in the time of plague
March 21, 2020 - It's a difficult - a bloody difficult - a damned bloody difficult time.
Spring carries on.
Renewal... we will, despite...
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Ghost Leaves
March 01, 2020 - This Spring's floods have finally receded, leaving debris behind. The lake lowered slowly so that leaves were left on th...
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Frisbee Dance
February 21, 2020 - Finn loves his Frisbee. I like using rapid sequencing and using the Gimp. To put it on redbubble I'll remove the backgro...
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Moonlit Road
February 09, 2020 - I was experimenting with photographing the moon lit road. It's a bit dark and grainy, but captures the feeling. Where ar...
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Tri-colored Heron
January 19, 2020 - One of the birds we saw at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge was a tri-colored heron. They're not exactly rare, just...
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Sandhill Cranes
January 12, 2020 - The sandhill cranes are back in Northeastern Alabama. These are off CR22 west of Rome. Impressive, big, noisy birds.
Th...
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Getting Close
January 04, 2020 - A follow on from my earlier post about the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge.
One of the things that makes for a striki...
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Space and Time
January 02, 2020 - One of my friends who is a real artist, MFA and all, Art Vandenberg, showed me a work where he made a still life from si...
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Not Just Alligators.
December 31, 2019 - Savannah National Wildlife Refuge is famous for birds and alligators. They're be more of those later. The main driving l...
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Still life with cat.
December 29, 2019 - We had a visitor this morning in Savannah. One of the local cats came over to show off his new bow - though how his peop...
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Sony 200-600 telephoto lens - a review
December 25, 2019 - You may have noticed that I like to take photographs of wildlife, even fairly tame creatures like this grey squirrel. Th...
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Trilobite
December 04, 2019 - The Ordovician mudstone in northeastern Alabama is laced with marine fossils. Glaciers and sea have removed most of the...
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Sweetwater Creek State Park
November 27, 2019 - Containing a souvenir of General Sherman's visit to Atlanta - though it was CSA General Wheeler whose cavalry destroyed...
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San Diego
November 21, 2019 - Just some shots from a trip to the west coast. A city scene
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Impudent Bird
November 10, 2019 - There isn't much that scares these birds. She posed for me, even though I stood barely a meter away. The Gulls in San Di...
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Art
November 04, 2019 - Good art tells a story and invokes an emotional response. The looming figures seem threatening. The woman seems isolated...
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Ollie
October 30, 2019 - Our cat, asleep. He barely stirred from the shutter noise.
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Be The Person Your Dog Thinks You Are
October 29, 2019 - Another cartoon. I can do this with your image too. (Well maybe not exactly like this, but something that suits it.)
In...
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Tamron 28-75 F2.8 zoom lens
October 22, 2019 - I haven't been happy with the kit lens on my Sony A7III. It's OK, but the sharpness needs to be improved. At high F-stop...
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Dogs
October 08, 2019 - I was practicing with the flash (a godox 200) and the Sony a7III. I used the adaptor for a nikon, but that's ok for "chi...
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A Tired Puppy
September 28, 2019 - Tired. It's hard keeping up with your humans. Using the silent setting on the shutter helps keep the puppy sleeping.
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Old Fort Niagara
September 18, 2019 - Fort Niagara sits 45 minute or so drive north of Niagara falls, at the mouth of the Niagara river. The French built it,...
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Niagara Falls
September 09, 2019 - I visited one of the most photographed places in the world. The challenge is then how to take a stunning and at least pa...
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Morning flight
September 06, 2019 - This is one of those that belongs in Delta's glossy brochure. I exposed for the sun and sky and expected enough details...
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Sunburst
August 29, 2019 - After a rainy night, dawn broke. I caught the sun bursting through the edge of the trees, just right. This field is bein...
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A dog and his toy
August 25, 2019 - 'nuf said?
Actually I'm experimenting with using the rapid multiple exposure and autofocus for capturing action. It's i...
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White Balance
August 18, 2019 - One of the more frustrating things when you fly on "automatic" is color balance. Most of the time the camera does a good...
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Back from the UK (Finn is relieved)
August 09, 2019 - Finn, after we've picked him up from boarding, looking somewhat tired, a little worried, but mostly happy to be home. Th...
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Cassie
August 07, 2019 - Our dog's cousin Cassie, asleep on her cushion. I made this image when trying to clean up an image I took.
While...
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Waterfalls
August 04, 2019 - The last post from our family visit. We walked up the river at Pontneddfechan. I posted a time-action shot earlier, but...
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Small Whites
July 30, 2019 - These small white butterflies, which are feasting on lavender nectar, are actually "Small White" butterflies (Pieris Rap...
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King Arthur's Cave
July 28, 2019 - King Arthur's cave is an opening at the top of the cliffs in the Wye valley. It's supposedly a natural cave, but time an...
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rapid shots
July 25, 2019 - We took a walk to a series of waterfalls in Pontneddfechan (easier written than said). More on that later, other than it...
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Freddy
July 24, 2019 - Since Jess died, my brother-in-law and family have arranged play dates for their remaining puppy. One is this happy-go-l...
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The Grey Wethers
July 23, 2019 - Avebury is a world heritage site, and - unlike Stonehenge - a place where you can actually touch the stones. Most people...
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Back in the UK, Wotton Under-Edge
July 21, 2019 - Wotton under-edge is a village not too far from Bristol and a favorite local walk when we're in the UK.
We parked on th...
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Frisbee Dog
July 09, 2019 - Our little puppy, now 70 pounds, has learned the joy of catching and playing with frisbees. The cloth one is the better...
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Wild Llama Productions
July 07, 2019 - I've started to film and produce videos under the name of "Wild Llama Productions." (It's a homage to Monte Python, in m...
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Dog and Shark
June 25, 2019 - August confronts a denizen of the deep.
His little brother is exhausting. August has been a fantastic "pater familias"...
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Rat Snake
June 10, 2019 - I know many people aren't keen on snakes, but I've had a soft spot for black rat snakes ever since I was a summer camp c...
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Owls
June 01, 2019 - A pair of Barred Owls visited us recently. It was hard to get a good shot as they stayed in the deep shade.
These are t...
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Auburn Graduation 2019
May 07, 2019 - My son has just graduated from Auburn, Physics and Mathematics. Wonder where that came from?
The rather horrible pictur...
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more fun with the portrait lens (puppy pictures)
May 01, 2019 - Our found dog is about a year old.
I'm really loving the light and color that this SamYang lens gives me. This was take...
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Wild Turkey
April 23, 2019 - The wild turkeys are back in Alabama and some of them, at least, are willing to get quite close to our house.
Our dogs...
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Sam Yang 85mm f1.4, a review.
April 11, 2019 - One of the few problems with the A7III is the cost of lenses. I can easily spend twice as much on a lens (albeit a very...
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Spring in Alabama
April 08, 2019 - I've been rather busy of late, what with my first commercial shoot (such as it was) and my university. We held another i...
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More Puppy Photos, and by the way I do real estate photography too.
March 23, 2019 - Between record floods, extremely wet weather, and an actual commission, I've been pretty busy. I could post a show, "Pos...
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Soda Bread, a Recipe
February 17, 2019 - Between the day job and wet weather, I've not had much chance to photograph this week. So here's a recipe instead.
2 cu...
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Sandhill Cranes
February 10, 2019 - The Sandhill Cranes are back at their winter refuge outside of Centre Alabama. They congregate in the harvested fields b...
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Gimp Beautify
February 06, 2019 - The beautify filterset for the Gimp aren't part of the default set. On linux, use apt get to install gimp-beautify, and...
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Using the speedlight
January 30, 2019 - I've been learning to use studio lighting at a course in the Atlanta Photographers Studio. So I've started to bother the...
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Atlanta Streets
January 20, 2019 - Just a few scenes from my walk back to G-deck after a long afternoon at the Imaging 2019 trade show. There's a murder my...
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Bridge over Dekalb Industrial
January 19, 2019 - Imaging USA (2019) is in Atlanta this year. It's about a quarter mile north from here in the Atlanta Convention Center....
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Impermanence
January 14, 2019 - The real or the ideal? To paraphrase Plato, which is more real the image or its reflection in the lake.
One of those ar...
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Aberrations
January 12, 2019 - I've been taking a class in portrait photography and one of the questions that came up in discussion was the difference...
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Sad news
January 10, 2019 - We heard over Christmas that one of our dogs' cousins has passed on. This image shows her in the fall, with a calm and d...
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Flooding
January 07, 2019 - This winter has been wet; rather wet to say the truth. Lake Weiss, where this is made, is a flood-control lake and it's...
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Birding with your telephoto
January 06, 2019 - I was having fun, trying to catch some of the local fauna with a telephoto (A sigma 150-600 zoom, which is OK as a lens...
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A7III vs D7200
January 01, 2019 - Not a lot of pictures in this post. I've been using a Sony A7III for the last month or so and 300 images in, I can write...
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Winter
December 31, 2018 - The sun has dipped into the south taking the light and color with it. The rain has washed what's left away. Even the fis...
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The unplanned puppy
December 30, 2018 - Finn Maccool (or more properly Fionn Mac Cumhaill) is a central figure in Irish mythology, a hunter of giants, and symbo...
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Holiday Lights
December 23, 2018 - One of the characteristic things in the good ol' USA around Christmas is the presence of Christmas light displays. It ca...
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Bon Secour NWR
December 23, 2018 - A follow up to my post on RVs.
One of the highlights of our trip was exploring the nearby National Wildlife Refuge. We...
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Paths and tracks
December 19, 2018 - Walking on the nearly deserted beach, winter on the Gulf Coast, Bon Secour NWR. One of my more meta-physical images. Whe...
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Bon Secour NWR
December 18, 2018 - One of the few places on the gulf shore that you can get to the dunes is Bon Secour NWR. We weren't there at the best ti...
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Pelicans
December 16, 2018 - We're exploring the Gulf Shores, near Mobile AL. These are the more cannonical pelicans, very different from the white a...
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Who Goes?
December 13, 2018 - Deer outside, just outside the window. It is a matter of supreme importance.
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Frost
December 11, 2018 - Winter is (finally) here in the South. I caught the frost on our leaves before the sun melted it.
Something of an abs...
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Trying the Sony A7iii
December 07, 2018 - My Nikon DSLR is not bad, but its low-light performance and speed of focus could be better. A lot better, to be honest....
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Getting a good image
November 30, 2018 - My long suffering model stayed still long enough for me to make a couple of images that show how to get a dramatic pictu...
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Perspective.
November 25, 2018 - Not the greatest, techncially (it's from an Iphone), but this shows how to manipulate perspcitve. The two dogs dominate...
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Lab Session
November 20, 2018 - Having more fun with the GIMP, and my puppy of course.
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Thanksgiving Break
November 19, 2018 - The students are gone, vanished into the dust. GSU becomes almost a ghost-town, even the homeless head off for greener p...
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Oldbury on Severn
November 18, 2018 - Another cartoon. The church of Saint Arilda. Arilda lived in the 5th or 6th century and other than dying while defending...
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A Christmas Card?
November 17, 2018 - I played with colour-specific masking in the cartoon. It brings out the Post box (In the UK the Royal Mail collects and...
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Cartooning
November 11, 2018 - One of the effects I've been playing with is the cartoon filter in the Gimp. It draws black lines where the gradient in...
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That season of mellow fruitiness
November 07, 2018 - Fall is, finally, coming to the Atlanta area. When you get the light right, it's intensely beautiful color. Nothing as g...
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color theory on the cheap.
November 03, 2018 - I attended a prospective student meeting at SCAD last night. They gave us a quick example class in color theory. While i...
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Autumn
November 02, 2018 - Cold, wet, and fall. Autumn is finally upon us. I've been experimenting with image effects.
Becomes, after processing:...
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Persimmons
October 29, 2018 - One of the joys of the rural South are the persimmon trees. Persimmons grow further North (I've harvested them just outs...
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All those settings.
October 26, 2018 - One of the things I learned at the Master's class was that at least some photographers don't know what these settings ar...
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Street Photography
October 20, 2018 - I just finished a master's class with Richard Renaldi as part of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2018 program. I lear...
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The puppy grows
October 15, 2018 - About six months old. The grids are the same as in this image from the day after we found him.
Something tells me he's...
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Star Shots
October 14, 2018 - Experimenting with star shots using my fish-eye lens. Actually, any lens that has reliable focus will do, but at F 3.5 t...
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HackGSU Spring 2018
October 08, 2018 - The computer science department at GSU hosted its biennial Hackathon this last weekend. The quality of the student proje...
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Remediating Grain
October 04, 2018 - I made this image a couple of months ago, at dawn, using a 600mm lens and a film speed of 3200. The apparent grain is la...
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Fall Sunflowers
October 01, 2018 - We have a fair lot of logged over areas in Alabama. In Autumn, they erupt into swarms of these flowers.
It feels as if...
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Getting over the new puppy
September 25, 2018 - One of our cats, at least, is finally getting over that uncouth young invader (our unplanned puppy). Which gave me a cha...
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Orb Weaver
September 23, 2018 - The onset of Fall brings out the Orb Weavers. Argiope Aurantia, The golden garden spider or golden orb weaver is one tha...
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More experiments.
September 20, 2018 - Experiments, experiments, experiments. Did I mention I was a scientist? This shows playing with the oil effects. I'm doi...
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how the puppy's doing
September 19, 2018 - About 5 months old, healthy and (in this case) tired. Finn (and his brother's) fur reflects light. The blue cast is from...
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Blackberries
September 15, 2018 - The blackberries were turning ripe in the UK. This shows a few ripe ones with the mixture of colors of unripe ones. (It'...
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Saint Catherine's chapel, Abbotsbury
September 12, 2018 - Abbotsbury, Dorset, is rather unsurprisingly named after the abbey that was established there from the time of King Cnut...
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Hiking in Devon
September 08, 2018 - When the weather is good (as it's been far too often this summer), hiking in the UK is beautiful. The South Coast foot p...
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Where's Mum?
September 06, 2018 - Not even a photographer would distract these #puppies.
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Exeter Abbey Ruins
September 04, 2018 - The ruins of St Stephens Alms house in Exeter make for an interesting visit. They're slowly returning to nature, in the...
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Untouched Beauty
September 03, 2018 - While it would be nice, sod that, first rate to live in the English countryside. Even if it is near those barbarous Wels...
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Cousins
September 01, 2018 - They will probably never meet, but Finn and August's cousin Jess is looking especially dignified in her old age. She's a...
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More Puppies!
August 26, 2018 - Finn had a chance to play with his brother again this weekend. Both dogs have grown by leaps and bounds. I guess food, w...
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Artistic effects
August 23, 2018 - The artistic filters in the GIMP are worth exploring.
The oil effect doesn't work equally well for all images, and qu...
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Experiments with a Fish-eye lens
August 22, 2018 - I've been experimenting with an inexpensive fish-eye lens. The super-wide angle and distortion are intriguing.
This i...
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A Momentous Step
August 21, 2018 - The first really big step in becoming a commercial photographer. I've set up my Google business listing. You can see the...
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Two Cultures
August 18, 2018 - Something of a followup on my last post. This images, taken at the West Kennet long barrow several years ago (during ano...
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Dawn
August 15, 2018 - Just a quicky (i'm performing brain surgery on my computer). This was the dawn sky a couple of weekends ago in rural Nor...
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Petroglyphs from Albuquerque
August 10, 2018 - One of the things that I've discovered, rather belatedly, is how useful a little post-processing can be. These are photo...
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Wryscan Quarry (more ruins)
August 08, 2018 - Wryscan Quarry is tucked deep inside of Moel yr Hydd. An earlier post shows some of the ruins. The ruins remind me of Mo...
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Deer Sequence
August 05, 2018 - Our local herd is mixed gender - mostly female with a fawn, and one buck. He's just spotted me
Is that dangerous?
Le...
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Mother and Fawn
August 04, 2018 - Caught this image this morning. It's a bit grainy, which given the time (dawn), the lens (600mm) and the shooting positi...
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Figs
August 01, 2018 - It's a dark and stormy time in Atlanta. Still the figs are finally beginning to ripen.
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A Moment in Time.
July 31, 2018 - The ferry terminal, San Francisco, July 2018.
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Cat and Puppy
July 30, 2018 - Our cat, well one of them anyway, has finally begun to relax about that terrible new interloper.
You can see that the f...
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The Joy of Frogs
July 29, 2018 - A selection of the Genus Rana
From my wildlife gallery
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Most Excellent Adventure – Part Three, Point Reyes.
July 29, 2018 - After turning inland we headed to Sonoma – where I forgot to take pictures as it looks much like any other small Califor...
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A new lens
July 27, 2018 - I'm in the process of upgrading my photographic equipment. Zoom lenses don't quite cut it for professional work. They do...
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Tyndale Monument
July 26, 2018 - Tyndale monument, above at sunset, and below nearer mid-day, is not far from Bristol. You can, for a small donation, cli...
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A Ruined Village
July 25, 2018 - Moel yr hydd is a mountain near Snowdon. It's surrounded by a deserted village, a slate quarry that was founded in 1830...
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Coastal California
July 23, 2018 - This is one of my favorite images from California. Simple, stark, and yet (at least to my eyes) somewhat moving. It's ac...
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Finn meets his brother
July 22, 2018 - Our rescue puppy got to meet up with his brother yesterday. Both dogs look fantastic and nothing at all like the bedragg...
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Our Rescue Puppy
July 21, 2018 - One of the disputable joys of spending time in the Alabama back-country is the chance to rescue animals. Someone dropped...
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California LIghthouses
July 20, 2018 - One of the recurring themes along the California coast is the lighthouses. Even with GPS and modern navigation, the fogg...
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Most Excellent Adventure – Part Two.
July 08, 2018 - After a couple of days exploring San Francisco, we decided to explore further north. Unfortunately, the next few days we...
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Elkhorn Slough Wildlife Refuge (State of California)
July 02, 2018 - Another digression, between Monterey (we actually stayed in Marina, but more on that in another post) and Santa Cruz, we...
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Tule Elk on Point Reyes.
June 28, 2018 - Something of a digression, but we just walked the Tomales point trail at Point Reyes National Seashore through the Tule...
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The Start of a Most Excellent Adventure.
June 26, 2018 - We decided to try exploring the West coast for a number of reasons. The most pressing being to see how the trees I plant...
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97% Totality.
August 21, 2017 - The top of G-deck turned out to be a good decision. There were a few other people there, but nothing like the crowds in...
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Ready for the eclipse.
August 20, 2017 - I ordered a solar filter for my long lense. It looks something like a very fragile and expensive piece of tinfoil, but w...
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Dunster Loop #Exmoor #UKwalks
July 28, 2017 - I’ve been queuing up a series of walks – mostly about 10 km (6 miles for us colonials), and this is the second.
This...
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Dunkery Beacon #UKwalks
July 09, 2017 - I’ve been queuing up a series of walks – mostly about 10 km (6 miles for us colonials), and this is the first.
Dunkery...
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Peas Potatoes and Gutter Cleaning.
March 04, 2017 - Ah, spring. Even though it’s early March, it’s already late spring in Georgia.
The early Daffodils are fading.
And...
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