An old (film) dog's odyssey to learn new (digital) tricks



Beach ball

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…

A very cooperative “bearded dragon,” photographed at the Denver Zoo…

Lights along the path

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

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

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?

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

Seen on my recent outing to the Denver Zoo:

Low-key sunrise

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

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

Warp Christmas

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…