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My name is Deborah Zajac. I'm a photographer living in Nevada at the base of the Eastern Sierras. I am a passionate nature, landscape, night/astro photographer. I shoot predominately in color and use Nikon Digital Cameras, and lenses. I hope you enjoy seeing some of the photos I've taken while on my travels. Please feel free to leave a comment I'd love to hear from you.

Along the fence

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Copyright © 2013 Deborah M Zajac. All Rights ReservedAlong the fence in Spring
Another photo from my outing with Rene and Rainey last week-end. I love nature’s bouquets. Here there is Lupine, California Poppies, Common Owl’s Clover, and Fiddle-necks.

The bees were buzzing around here, and the day was warm. The cloud cover really made the colors pop by diffusing the light a bit.  This is my favorite time of year in California when all the hills are green and colorful.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 1735@ 25mm| f14| 1/160sec| ISO 200| Manual Priority| Matrix metering| Single Servo AF| Tripod

 

 

Western Bluebird pair Spring 2013

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Rene spotted the male high in a tree and when Rainey and I started to approach to get bit closer he flew away and a moment later the female flew out of a nearby tree. They landed on this barbed wire fencing not too far from me.
Rainey pulled out her cell phone and got her Bird app fired up and started playing Bluebird calls. They were listening and liking it here.
When we tried the phone app later in the day the bluebirds flew away.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 70-300mmVR| f5.6| 1/640s| ISO 200| Manual Priority| Matrix Metering| Single Servo AF| Hand-Held

Spring sunset in the rolling hills of California

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I took this frame right after the sun dropped below the horizon or very near it. There wasn’t much color on this evening due to the fog rolling in, but I liked the rosy-golden light, and mist in the valley.

Nikon D700|Nikkor 1735@ 35mm| f/14| 0.3 sec| ISO 200| Manual Priority| Matrix Metering| Tripod

Spring in California’s rolling hills

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From a day with Rainey and Rene in the countryside hunting wildflowers. The clover was more prevelant than the poppies this year.
We saw Golden Eagles, and a Bald Eagle pair too, but they were too far for my lens to capture anything good. Right now it was enough to see them. I’m so glad they’re making a comeback in California!

Nikon D700| Nikkor 17-35@ 30mm| f/9| I/100s | ISO 200| Manual Priority| Matrix Metering| Hand-held

Common Owl’s Clover, California Oak, rolling hills, landscape, overcast sky

“Suddenly I realize that if I stepped out of my body I would break into blossom.”~James Wright

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Woody spent a lovely day hunting wildflowers with Rainey, and Rene.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 17-35@ 30mm| f/9| I/100s | ISO 200| Manual Priority| Matrix Metering| Hand-held

Common Owl’s Clover, Giant Lupine, California Poppies, Fiddlenecks, wild grasses; California wildflowers;

Camera Raw 7.4 and DNG Converter 7.4 Now Available!

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Camera Raw 7.4 and DNG Converter 7.4 Now Available

 

“Camera Raw 7.4 is now available as a final release through the update mechanism in Photoshop CS6.  The goal of this release is to provide additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Camera Raw.  Customers of previous versions of Photoshop can utilize DNG Converter 7.4 for raw file support for newly added cameras.” Adobe Systems

 

Update through the Updater in CS6

 

For more information on what this update covers click here.

 

Adobe has also issued a final release update to Lightroom 4.4  This  release adds more camera and lens support, and it fixes quite a few bugs.

 

The Windows download page is here.

 

The MAC download page is here.

 

H/T Photographylife.com

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