Category: Nature

Snowflake

 Before After The other day someone posted a link on facebook to some really amazing snowflake pictures.  I thought to myself, “Hey, I’m a macro photographer, I can do this.”  Well let me tell you it is not as easy as it looks.  Out of about 100 images, this is the only one that came… Continue reading Snowflake

Bosque sunrise

As much as I hate getting up at o’dark early to catch the sunrise I have to say I have never regretted it.  My strategy this week of going to the Bosque del Apache midweek  and early in the season paid off and I was actually able to find tripod space on the Flight Deck.… Continue reading Bosque sunrise

Snow Goose

It is that time of year when many nature photographer’s thoughts start turning to the Bosque del Apache.  I had hoped to get down there myself this week but was preempted by other priorities. So, instead I started sifting through the pix from my last trip this past January.  This started out as a much… Continue reading Snow Goose

More Autumn Leaves

With Fall Color season coming to a close I thought I would give it one more shot and headed up the Pecos River this week.  I love the variety of shapes and colors I found here at the edge of the water as well as the rocks framing the leaves.  Once again post processing made… Continue reading More Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves

This week I headed for the hills in search of two things.  Autumn leaves on the ground or in the water and an escape from the insanity which seems to have gripped our nation.  I had a little more success with the former than the later.  I used my telephoto zoom lens to get in… Continue reading Autumn Leaves

Fall Color Colorado

I kicked off the fall color season with a trip to the San Juan Mountains in SW Colorado.  Things were not quite as far along this year as in years past but still plenty of color.  I used to always go the first week of October but found too many bare trees in the high country… Continue reading Fall Color Colorado

Jackrabbit

It has been another week of culling the files and looking for keepers that I could apply new post processing skills to. I came across this handsome fellow at Arches National Park a few years back and was taken by the morning light shining through his ears.  The raw image was pretty bland and didn’t… Continue reading Jackrabbit

Turtle

I found this turtle at the Albuquerque Botanic Gardens back in May.  I have begun the process of culling this year’s photos in order to free up more disc space.  For post processing I had to do a little cropping to focus attention on this turtle on not the one behind him.  The image also… Continue reading Turtle

Yellow Rose

This week’s field trip was to the newly opened Santa Fe Botanical Gardens where these yellow roses with the unlikely name of “Julia Child” were the stars of the show.  I shot this at f/16 to get most of the flower in focus then in post processing added a Gaussian Blur filter and masked out… Continue reading Yellow Rose