Old Dog Photography

Moving news — the penultimate post

Argos — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:55:52 +0000

We've moved -- everything must go!

Buckle your seat belts…

Argos (admin) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:42:50 +0000

Well, folks — the Wordpress database that underlies this blog is misbehaving again. Since it’s the third time in as many months that I’ve been faced with the prospect of scrubbing through the database looking for corruption, this situation has given me the painful opportunity to take a hard look at things. Meanwhile, I’ve actually started [...]

Beach ball

Argos — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:32:47 +0000

A farewell shot of Hawaii — this, from the Kekaha Kai State Park, just north of the Kona airport on Hawaii’s big island: Thought the view would be a good fit for my crystal ball; my 7 year old should be credited with the name for the post.

Here’s looking at you…

Argos — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:43:53 +0000

A very cooperative "bearded dragon," photographed at the Denver Zoo...

Lights along the path

Argos — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:04:47 +0000

You can take the boy out of the southwest, but you can’t take (all) the southwest out of the boy: One handy thing about being an “expatriate” New Mexican is that you can set up luminarias (or to be fussy, farolitos) almost anywhere. Courtesy of a snow storm a few days ago, this year [...]

Icy blue reflections

Argos — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:33:23 +0000

One of the really nice extras of the holiday season from a photographer's perspective is that a lot of places put on special shows for a few weeks...

Crystalkeh

Argos — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:03:02 +0000

One of the things I’ve tried to habitually think of is taking shots with my crystal ball. So when I went on the photowalk through the Denver Zoo a few weeks back, I tried it out here and there. Note to self: steadily hand-holding a crystal ball for long-exposure photography in sub-freezing weather isn’t all that [...]

Have a kiss for me, princess?

Argos — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:02:25 +0000

Another shot from my recent nighttime photowalk at the Denver Zoo: Unlike some of the other zoo residents, this little critter (a Mossy Frog) was more than happy to sit still for me while I tried a few different flash settings on him. From the placard: This frog from Vietnam has evolved skin warts, protrusions, [...]

Clown trigger

Argos — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:31:26 +0000

Seen on my recent outing to the Denver Zoo:

Low-key sunrise

Argos — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:30:48 +0000

On the return leg of our recent Hawaii vacation, I was on a red-eye flight — great if you can figure out how to sleep on a plane, not so great if you’re tall enough that you’re essentially shoe-horned into your coach-class seat (thanks, United!). At least my lack of sleep meant I was awake [...]

Akaka, falling

Argos — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:54:19 +0000

A closeup of Akaka falls, on Hawaii’s big island:

Warp Christmas

Argos — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:24:21 +0000

I haven't really played much with zooming a lens in the middle of taking an image -- but since I was taking long-duration tripod shots on my recent night excursion to the Denver Zoo, thought it was a good time to start...

Blue Christmas

Argos — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:08:18 +0000

A shot from a recent nighttime photowalk at the Denver Zoo...

Pretty little thing

Argos — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:32:36 +0000

On our way to a valley overlook, I ran across this interesting little flower by the side of the trail...

Push me, pull you

Argos — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:46:52 +0000

When we were in Honolulu, we saw about a dozen of these little birds looking for food in a park near the beach...

Black Rocks, White Surf, Green Sand

Argos — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:09:10 +0000

A brief bit of video from Hawaii's green sand beach...

Pele’s workshop

Argos — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:36:34 +0000

Since you never really know who’s reading your blog, I’ve thought it best to talk about travel only after I’ve returned home from it. So now I can start telling you about a family vacation we just wrapped up in Hawaii. The lead-off shot — lava reaching the sea on the “big island” of Hawaii: [...]

Land of broken shadows

Argos — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:34:43 +0000

One last shot (for a while) from Santa Fe: I saw this and just was struck by the odd (if somewhat subtle) difference between the geometry of the railing and that of its shadow. I didn’t have to do much to this shot other than tweak the saturation a bit. The odd break in [...]

Fall colors

Argos — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:07:20 +0000

Yeah, I know — not the most original name. Still, I had this one last colorful backlit shot from our trip to New Mexico about 6 weeks back, and wanted to get it up before autumn was too distant a memory: Taken in Santa Fe, on the plaza…

Magenta-ish

Argos — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:09:49 +0000

A colorful close-in shot from the Rio Grande Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, New Mexico: