The photos I’ve shown here (throughout the site, actually) are all unedited jpegs taken right out of the camera (a Nikon D40 in the case of the Australia trip). They’re composed in the camera, uncropped & uncorrected. Most of them were shot in Program mode, although I controlled exposure. They represent an honest attempt to …
Like everybody else, I’m in love with the golden light just at/after sunset. I had a 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Nikon lens mounted almost all the time in Australia, because I was just enchanted with the birds (almost always far-ish away) and the architectural details of the buildings in Melbourne. But even with VR, shooting handheld at …
I know. Amazing, eh? You should hear the noise they make when they’re unhappy …
Or maybe a mural — there are manga-y figures in there amid the peeling posters.
It’s a Silver Gull – so common that in Australia it’s what they mean when they say “seagull.” Here are a gull & a hipster studiously avoiding looking at each other:
We saw lots of them throughout Victoria — This guy was hanging around looking for food.
I’m hoping to use this blog to document some of the things I do right and wrong as a photographer. First, and probably most important, I’m not a photographer — I like taking pictures, and I’m trying to get better at it. As I move through the world, I see some things as “pictures” — …
Lots of predators in the park … they don’t always last long. But this little one survived to return the next year. Here he is learning to navigate the obstacle course:
The waterfall is alive with birds in summer.