Recently I took individual photos for my son’s high school swim team. Set up the photo shoot at the end of the evening’s team practice in an outdoor pool after sunset. I placed 2 off-camera flash strobes with radio triggers on light stands on opposite sides of the pool area, equal distant to the selected …
Some days you see things that you don’t expect and they catch you by surprise. I was out shooting in an old cemetery recently (more on those images later) when I came upon this tree with amazing bark character. As I worked the tree with different compositions and using the soft evening lighting under the …
I have been out covering our local high school’s Cross Country running team’s participation in various meets around our county and neighboring counties. This shot is my favorite. It was taken in the late afternoon of a fall day seconds after the race start. It is deep in the redwood forest and very dark. Even …
So, the followup to the Kelby Worldwide Photowalk was that I did not get my entry in by the deadline. The image above is the one I would have selected. After a very busy week and some weekend meetings (lengthy), I started prepping my images for submission to the contest site and the group photo …
This was my 2nd year in participating in the Kelby Worldwide Photowalk held on October 13th. This year I participated in the Photowalk in Santa Cruz, California. The two walks were quite different, beyond the fact they were in different countries and on opposite sides of the continent. Last year much of the enjoyed benefit …
I did it again – put the same image on the blog in B&W and color. It’s the P-40 Warhawk lined up in front of some P-51 Mustangs. Looking down the line from the other end are the P-51’s, the P-40 and then a series of AT-6’s.
These images I left in full color. Often the advice of photographers is not to put the same image up twice – both in color and B&W – but I loved both. Can’t decide which one I like better. The above warbird is the same AT-67 (SNJ or Harvard depending on where it served). The …
I have been drawn to warbird images for some time and followed the blog writing on this photography subject by a couple of photographers I track. This past holiday weekend was an airshow at a local airport. In addition to the static displays, the flying portion featuresWWII warbirds, acrobatic airplanes and in some years some …
The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is a wonderful old style oceanside amusement park crowded into a narrow strip of land along the Main Beach of Santa Cruz. It has won best seaside amusement park awards repeatedly over the years and is a great destination for families and tourists. For me, it is a short 15 …
Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay are a wonderful location to live near. Many years ago I joined the Scuba Club at college and got my scuba diving certification. That summer, 4 friends and I drove to California and dove at Fort Ross north of San Francisco and then Carmel near Monterey at the bottom …
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