While I was in Utah I had the great opportunity to photograph my sister’s family. They were great to work with, having lots of energy and smiles all around made the job much easier. The key to a good portrait photograph is a large aperture and beautiful evening or morning light. To obtain the nice …
ISO 100, 24mm, f/4.0, 1/400 sec Heart Lake is located above Castle Lake, which is in the mountains above the city of Mt Shasta and Lake Siskiyou. To get to this lake you first drive up to Castle Lake. You then take a trail that goes along the left or southern side of the lake and up. The trail isn’t long …
Last Saturday, the 22nd I took a trip down to the Faery Falls and the ruins of Ney Springs resort. This waterfall and ruins are on the way to Castle Lake which I also had on the to do list for the day. If there was time, and there was, to hike up to Heart …
ISO 200, 100mm, f/5.6, 1/160 sec I’ve been using the D800 for a month or two now and one thing I have enjoyed is the full image size of 7360×4912. Because the native image size is so large you can crop and still end up with an image with enough pixels for a decent print/jpeg. There is so much detail …
Over the last week I have been spent a significant amount of time working on the pictures from our hike on June 15th into the Sky High Basin. The Sky High Basin is in the Marble Mountain Wilderness up a trail leaving from Lover’s camp. ISO 200, 24mm, f/9.0, 1/160 sec, Polarizer June 15th is my …
On June 7th at 10am in the morning the class of 2013 held their graduation ceremony at the high school stadium. The last time I was in this stadium it was for my son Jared’s graduation. That year the weather was cold I wore a long-sleeved pullover. This year…not so much. It was very hot and sunny. …
Friday June 7th, Taunya held her annual piano recital for her students. They have all been working really hard this year and have made great progress! The recital was well attended by family and friends of the performers. I’m still not sure how we fit 30+ chairs into our living room! I started out with …
24mm ISO 100 f/6.3 at 1/320th of a sec Saturday morning I received a call from my good friend Don inviting us to hike with his family up the Shackleford trail to Campbell lake in the Marble mountains. I tried to convince Taunya to come with us, but she was too excited about the prospects of …
This past weekend was the Yreka High School Prom with the theme of Masquerade Ball. Liz Hensen asked if I would be willing to take some photographs of her and some of her friends before Prom. We agreed that Greenhorn park would be a good location for a shoot. I was excited for this opportunity to …
1/125 sec at f/4.0; iso 640; 24mm So I sold my D7000 and three of my lenses the 18-200 VR, the 35mm 1.8G and the 50mm 1.8 D to my friend David for a really good deal so he could get into photography. To replace the gear I sold I purchased a D800 and a 50mm 1.8G. I …
This evening we had an enjoyable time with many others out at the Cowley Ranch in Little Shasta. Of course I brought my camera along, Taunya was making fun of me as I walked out of the house for bringing it. When we arrived there I noticed a great picture from their front yard of …
Well, I finally got around to going through the photographs of us fishing and of the lake itself. Once again, as I always plan it, I was the one taking the photographs so I didn’t have to be in any of them. 🙂 I think from some of these pictures you can get an appreciation for how hard …