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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.

Mare Island Drawbridge Lift Bridge

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An unplanned photo op. While on the way to meet a Night Photography group  to shoot with I wondered if   the moon would  line up over one of the Drawbridge towers and with a little scouting my friend Dali and I found a spot.

This bridge operates 16 hours a day, and is the first bridge you encounter on the Northwest Passage up the Napa River.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 24-70@ 28mm| f16| 30 seconds| ISO 200| Manual Priority| Tripod

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Townsend’s Warbler

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Thompson’s Warbler, originally uploaded by dmzajac2004-.

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A sure sign of Spring is when the Allen’s Hummingbirds return to the Santa Cruz area. A couple of friends and I went over to the Arboretum to check to see if they’d returned and a few had. While photographing them we spotted this Townsend’s Warbler. It’s the first time I’ve photographed one.

NIkon D700| Nikkor 80-200mm + Tamron 1.4x TC Hand-held

Hybrid-Crested Pekin Mallard?

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On my recent jaunt up to Lake Merritt to find the Tufted Duck I was walking past a little enclosed pond when I spotted this duck. I had to call Phil over to see it since it was unique.
Neither of us knew what the name of this duck was and we planned to do some research to see if we could figure it out. Phil got on it straight-away. He found very little information out there, but he did find a photo with a duck that looks like this one and it was called a Hybrid-Crested Pekin Mallard.
Bred for the little Pom-Pom on their heads I’m sure!
Anyone know anything about this breed?

This pond was pretty dirty  so, I did a little work in PS to clean it up, but as you see it’s still a mess. The disadvantage of a small pond I guess.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 80200@ 112m + Tamron 1.4x TC| f8| 1/250s| ISO 400| Manual Priority| Hand-held

 

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Horsetail Fall 2013

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Horsetail Fall 2013, originally uploaded by dmzajac2004-.

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This is the 4th yr I’ve gone up to Yosemite trying to capture the natural light show that happens when conditions are just right. For a week or so in February and October during sunset the sun lines up with the fall, and if there is water running down the fall the sunlight will turn the water red like lava or fire.

This year we had more snow on El Capitan than last year, and the day was sunny, but it was cold up there, and it’s been rather dry with no rain for awhile so there wasn’t as much water as we hoped for.
We did get some lovely color and the wind kicked up a little so we were treated to the mist lighting up at the top of the fall.

Every year it has looked different, and I’m hoping one year the fall will be spewing tons of water, and the sun is shining brightly.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 80-200mm| Tripod

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