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.
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.
A very cooperative “bearded dragon,” photographed at the Denver Zoo…
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 [...]
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…
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 [...]
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, [...]
Seen on my recent outing to the Denver Zoo:
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 [...]
A closeup of Akaka falls, on Hawaii’s big island:
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…