Posted on March 10, 2023
From the archives, early morning and early evening cloud landscape images from the Wildlife Drive at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge near Cambridge, Maryland. The Featured image is near the start of the Wildlife Drive. Image taken with a 17-40mm lens @ 17mm, f/11, 1/640 sec., -0.67 Exposure Comp, Canon 1D mkIII.
Category: 12mm wide angle lens Panoramas, Blackwater NWR, Blackwater NWR, Cambridge MD, Blog, Canon 1D MkIII, Canon 1D MkIV, clouds, Cloudscapes, Colorful Clouds, Equipment, Favorite Locations, Landscapes, Nature Still Lifes, skyscapes, Skyscapes & Clouds, sunsets, wildlife drive Tagged: 12-24mm Sigma lens, 14-140mm m43 lens, 24-105mm Canon lens, Blackwater Colorful Clouds, Blackwater NWR, Blackwater Wildlife Drive, canon 17-40mm lens, Canon 17mm lens, Canon 1D MkIII, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 24-105mm lens, Olympus OMD-1, Panasonic 100-300mm lens
Posted on February 2, 2023
I have been busy on other projects but I am getting back to working on the blog. Here are a series of assorted images of ice taken over the years.. The Featured Image is a photo of ice patterns that was on my car windshield one frosty morning taken with my iPhone.
Category: 300mm Canon f/4 lens, Abstracts, Blog, Canon 1.4X Teleconverter, Canon 1D MkIII, Canon 1D MkIV, Celery Farm, Celery Farm Natural Area, Closeup Photography, Equipment, Focus Stacking, ice, Image Stacking, iPhone, iPhone photography, iPhone photos, polarizing filter, The Celery Farm Natural Area, yard & pond Tagged: Canon 1D MkIII, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 1D mkIV Camera, Frost, ice, Ice images, Ice Photography, iPhone 6, iPhone photography
Posted on December 18, 2022
I am going through my Hard Drives cleaning up & removing images I do not need. But as I am cleaning up disk space I am finding images that I could use on the blog. These 2 Reddish Egret images were from a visit to J.N. Ding Darling years ago. The Featured Image was taken with a Canon 1D mkIV with a Canon 400mm DO lens @ f/4.5, 1/250 sec. The Courting Dance was interesting to watch and went on for about 1/2 hour.
Category: Birds, Birds, birdscapes, Blog, Canon 1.4X Teleconverter, Canon 1D MkIV, Equipment, J.N. Ding Darling NWR, Reddish Egrets, Wildlife, wildlife drive Tagged: canon 1.4x teleconverter series III, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 400 f/4 DO lens, canon 400mm f/4 DO, J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, J.N. Ding Darling NWR, J.N. Ding Darling Wildlife Drive, Reddish Egret, Reddish Egret Courting Dance, Reddish Egrets
Posted on September 10, 2022
Dragonfly season will soon be ending but here are a series of Blue Dasher Dragonfly images from a series of different outings. The Featured Image was taken with a Canon 400mm DO lens on a Canon 1D mkIV, @f/8, 1/400 sec.
Category: 300mm Canon f/4 lens, Blog, Blue Dasher, Blue Dasher Dragonfly, Brigantine NWR, Oceanville NJ, Canon 1.4X Teleconverter, Canon 1D MkIII, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 7D, canon R, Davidsons Mill Pond Park, Ding Darling NWR, Sanibel FL, Dragonflies, dragonfly, Equipment, Insects, Plainsboro Preserve, yard & pond Tagged: Blue Dasher Dragonfly, canon 1.4x teleconverter series III, Canon 1D MkIV, canon 300mm f/4 IS lens, canon 300mm f/4 lens IS, Canon 400 f/4 DO lens, Canon 400mm DO lens, canon 400mm f/4 DO, Canon 7D, canon R, Canon Series III 1.4X Teleconverter, Dragonflies, dragonfly, Dragonflys
Posted on July 6, 2022
A series of Twelve-Spotted Skimmer Dragonfly images taken with a Canon 400mm DO lens with an Extension Tube added for closer focusing on a Canon 1D mkIV. I was also using a Canon 600EX-RT Flash with a Better Beamer Flash Extender for filling in the shadows & to get more detail on the Dragonfly. All images are full frame, not cropped. I was shooting @ f/8 or f/11 for a smoother clean background.
Category: Better Beamer Flash Extender, Blog, Canon 1D MkIV, Dragonflies, dragonfly, yard & pond Tagged: Better Beamer Flash Extender, canon 1D mk IV, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 1D mkIV Camera, canon 400mm f/4 DO, Canon 600EX-RT, Canon flash, Dragonflies, dragonfly, Dragonfly closeups, dragonfly photography, Fill Flash Photography, Outdoor Fill Flash Photography, Twelve-Spotted Dragonfly, Twelve-spotted Skimmer, Twelve-Spotted Skimmer Dragonfly
Posted on July 2, 2022
A series of images of a close Osprey flyBy at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge Maryland.
All images were taken with a Canon 1D mkIV with a 1.4x Teleconverter.
Category: Birds, Birds, Birds in Flight, birdscapes, Blackwater NWR, Blog, Cambridge MD, Canon 1.4X Teleconverter, Canon 1D MkIV, Equipment, ospreys, Wildlife, wildlife drive Tagged: blackwater National Wildlife refuge, canon 1.4x teleconverter series III, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 400 f/4 DO lens, canon 400mm f/4 DO, Canon Series III 1.4X Teleconverter, osprey, Osprey @ Blackwater NWR, osprey flight, Osprey FlyBy, Osprey Flying, Osprey in Flight
Posted on June 28, 2022
I was going through my some of my back-up drives to clear up space for newer images. I am trying not to add even more drives that I have to deal with! As I was clearing up space I was finding interesting images that I have not posted here. These 2 images are of a Twelve-Spotted Skimmer dragonfly that was visiting my pond at my old home years ago. Both images are a series of 5 images focused at different points along the wings, tail & head. I used to use this technique when I could not get closer to my subject Dragonflies because they were out in the middle of my pond. I lowered my camera to look a little more up and to get a more colorful background on the Featured Image. I was using a Canon 7D with a 400mm DO lens with a Canon Flash with a Better Beamer Flash Extender to fill in more details on the Dragonfly. I was also using stacked Teleconverters with extension tubes in between so I only had a limited in-focus window. Arranging the Teleconverters & Extension Tubes in different orders or different size Extension Tubes gives you different zones of focus. So it takes a little practice to get used to using this technique for predictable results! The Dragonfly was 15.4 feet away (according to the Raw Data). The focused-stacked images were loaded into a Photoshop file and auto-aligned & auto-blended for the final images. The images of the Camera Setup showing the Extension Tubes & Teleconverters placement were on a Canon 1D MkIV. I did not have an image showing the 7D with this setup!
Category: Blog, Canon 1.4X Teleconverter, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 7D, Closeup Photography, Dragonflies, dragonfly, Equipment, Favorite Locations, Focus Stacking, Focus Stacking Images, Image Stacking, Panorama & Stacked Images, Uncategorized, yard & pond Tagged: Better Beamer Flash Extender, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon Teleconverters Canon Extension Tubes, dragonfly, Dragonfly closeups, dragonfly photography, extension tubes, fill flash, image blending, image focus stacking, Image Stacking, image stacking with photoshop, Stacking Teleconverters, Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Posted on June 17, 2022
A series of images of Black Skimmers flying and skimming from previous trips to the Brigantine Division of the Edwin B. Forsythe NWR in Oceanville, NJ. The Featured image was taken with a Canon 1D mkIV with a 400mm DO lens & 1.4x Teleconverter
Category: Birds, Birds, Birds in Flight, birdscapes, Black Skimmers, Blog, Brigantine Division, Brigantine NWR, Brigantine NWR, Oceanville NJ, Canon 1.4X Teleconverter, Canon 1D MkIV, Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Equipment, Oceanville NJ, Wildlife, wildlife drive Tagged: black skimmer, Black Skimmers, Black Skimmers Fishing, Black Skimmers in Flight, Brigantine birds, Brigantine Division, Brigantine Divison Edwin B Forsythe NWR, Brigantine NWR, Brigantine Wildlife Drive, canon 1.4x teleconverter series III, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 400mm DO lens, canon 400mm f/4 DO, Canon 400mm f/4 DO lens, Canon 400mm f4 DO lens, Canon Series III 1.4X Teleconverter
Posted on June 5, 2022
I am going through my backup drives to clear out unneeded files and to make room for backing up recent files. I came across a drive with a lot of images from a trip to J.N. Ding Darling NWR in Florida many years ago that I never used. This is a series of 2 images of a Great Egret. The Featured image is a very close fly-by of the Great Egret taken with a Canon 400mm DO lens with a 1.4X Teleconverter on a Canon 1D mkIV.
Category: Birds, Birds, birdscapes, Blog, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 7D, Ding Darling NWR, Sanibel FL, Equipment, Favorite Locations, Great Egret, J.N, Ding Darling NWR, J.N. Ding Darling NWR, Nature Still Lifes, Wildlife, wildlife drive Tagged: canon 1.4x teleconverter series III, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 400mm DO lens, Great Egret, Great Egret @ J.N.Ding Darling, Great Egret Fishing, J.N Ding Darling wildlife Drive, J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, J.N. Ding Darling NWR, J.N. Ding Darling Wildlife Drive
Posted on May 29, 2022
A series of Bald Eagle in-flight images taken over a few visits to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland. I find Blackwater NWR has one of the largest amount of Bald Eagles in the Northeast and is a fairly easy drive to get there from my home. The Featured Image was a quickly taken 2 shot panorama to get both wingtips in the image.
Category: Bald Eagle in Flight, Bald Eagles, Birds, Birds, Blackwater NWR, Blackwater NWR, Cambridge MD, Blog, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 7D, Equipment, Skies and Clouds, Skyscapes & Clouds, Wildlife, wildlife drive Tagged: Bald Eagle, Bald Eagle At Blackwater, bald Eagle At Blackwater NWR, Bald Eagle in Flight, Bald Eagles, Bald Eagles at Blackwater NWR, Bald Eagles in flight, blackwater National Wildlife refuge, Blackwater NWR, Blackwater Wildlife Drive, Canon 1D MkIV, eagles, Eagles at Blackwater NWR