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Wordless Wednesday 8/52 Sea Worthy

February 22, 2017February 21, 2017Posted in Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, Life List Birds, Nature Photography, Photography, Project 52, Seabirds, Wordless WednesdayTagged Birds, Birds in the Wild, Life List Birds, Nature Photography, Nikon, Pigeon Guillemot, Seabirds, Wordless Wednesday28 Comments

Pigeon Guillemot/cepphus columba

Pigeon Guilemot

Nikon D300s| Nikkor 300mm f/4| SanDisk Digital Film| PS CC 2017

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Waterdrops, Plips and Plops

February 20, 2017February 20, 2017Posted in Abstracts, Nikon, Off Camera Flash, Photography, Splashes, Water dropsTagged Nikon, Off camera flash, Photography, Speedlights, Waterdrops49 Comments

This past week-end it rained. A lot. So, in between storms He-Man and I headed to the nearby hills for a much needed walk. Sticking to the paved roads avoiding the muddy trails we walked up the hills and down to stretch out our legs a bit. Elevation gain was about 250 ft, and mileage was only a couple of miles, but it felt great to stretch our legs, and be outside.

The grass on the hills is tall and green, and there are spring flowers popping up here and there. I saw clover, wild mustard, and even some droopy, rain soaked Daffodils.

Sunday I was a bit stir-crazy so set up to shoot waterdrops again. This time instead of using the faucet which was hard to regulate I set up my C-stand and boom arm and taped a medical dropper to it filled with water. It presented its own set of issues to deal with.

Once the eye-dropper ran out of water it had to be refilled and taped back on the boom arm. I marked the spot with tape, but it didn’t always line up with my pre-focused spot so, I had to refocus every time I filled up and remounted the eyedropper. Also there was a bit of wiggle room with the taped eyedropper so the drops didn’t always land in my pre-focused spot.

I didn’t get many keepers, but it was a fun way to pass a couple of hours on a rainy Sunday.

Plip Plop Drop

Waterdrop

Nikon Df| Nikkor 105mm macro lens| SB600 Speedlight @1/2pwr low, camera right| Delkin Digital Film| PS CC 2017

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Wordless Wednesday 7/52

February 15, 2017February 14, 2017Posted in Bird Photography, Birds, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, Birds of Prey, Hawks, Nature, Nature Photography, Nikon, Photography, San Jose California Nature Photographer, Wordless WednesdayTagged Birding, Birds, Birds of North America, Hawks, Nature, Nikon, Photography, Project 52, Red-tailed Hawk, Wordless Wednesday29 Comments

Red-tailed Hawk

Nikon D700| Nikkor 200-500mm| Lexar Professional Digital Film| PS CC 2017

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Wordless Wednesday 6/52 Band-tailed Pigeon

February 8, 2017February 5, 2017Posted in Bird Photography, Birds, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, Life List Birds, Nikon, Photography, Project 52, Wordless WednesdayTagged around the hood, Band-tailed Pigeon, Birds, Birds of North America, Lifer Birds, Nature, Nikon, Photography, Project 52, Wordless Wednesday23 Comments

Banded-tail Pigeon

Nikon D300s| Nikkor 300mm f/4| Lexar Professional Digital Film| PS CC 2017

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Wordless Wednesday 5/52

February 1, 2017January 31, 2017Posted in Bird Photography, Birds, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, Nikon, Photography, Project 52, Santa Clara County, Wordless WednesdayTagged Birds, Birds in the Wild, Cedar Waxwing, Frontyard Birds, Nature, Nikon, Photography, Santa Clara County, Spring Omens, Winter Range Birds, Wordless Wednesday31 Comments

Cedar Waxwing

Nikon D700| Nikkor 200-500mm @460mm| Lexar Digital Film| PS CC 2017

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Along Swanson Creek

January 30, 2017January 30, 2017Posted in Creeks and Streams, Landscape Photography, Long Exposures, Nature Photography, Nikon, Photography, Santa Clara County Parks, waterfallsTagged Creeks, Nature, Nikon, Photography, Portrait, Santa Clara County, Uvas Canyon, Waterfalls33 Comments

After all the rain we have had I’ve been itching to get out to Uvas Canyon to photograph the creeks, and waterfalls, but Uvas Canyon County Park was closed for about 2 weeks due to flooding, and high water. It just reopened on the 27th so, this morning #1 Grandson and I went up there for a little hike.

The creeks are full of rushing water hurrying down the hills, and the waterfalls are full and lovely.

I stopped along the creek to make some images on the way up the trail.

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I really wanted to get in the creek and get to some better angles, but with #1 Grandson with me that wasn’t a good idea. He was wanting to get in to go for BIG rocks to throw. 🙂

Swanson's Creek

He was trooper and made it all the way up to Upper Falls, and back on his own two feet. Although while throwing rocks in the creek he waded in after a big rock and got his feet and shoes wet. He said he had lots of fun today.

He did sit and pose for me, and give me a silly smile. I’m crazy about this boy!

Jaxon Swanson's Creek Uvas Canyon

Uvas Canyon County Park

I am hoping to get back up there with my Wellies and maybe not #1 Grandson so I can get in the creek and head up and down a few more trails where there other little cascading falls to photograph.

I have several more images to work on I’ll share soon.

Nikon Df| Nikkor 17-35mm| Delkin Digital Film| PS CC 2017 & On 1 Photo 10.5

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Raspberry & Cream II

January 27, 2017January 27, 2017Posted in Nikon, PhotographyTagged Drops, Food, Food and Drink, Food Photography, High Speed Flash Photography, Milk, Nikon, Off camera flash, playing with food, Raspberry, splash, Splashes and Drops, Strobist22 Comments

After shooting water drops and splashes last week-end I went back to some images I made back in 2014 of splashes that I made using milk and raspberries.

Here’s one that has been languishing on my hard-drive since Spring of 2014.

Raspberry & Cream II

Timing this was really hard, and I’ve been wanting to try it again. I went through a whole package of raspberries during this shoot because after dropping them into the milk over, and over again they began absorbing the milk and sank rather than come back to the top to be part of the splash which is what I wanted to photograph. Who knew!

I cleaned up the shadows a bit, and removed some far flung drops that were blurry in post development.

Strobist- SB910 @ 1/25th pwr, camera right low front 75º angle, Triggered via Commander Mode in camera

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