On Saturday I rented a car, the tires on mine are bald….., and drove down to Moab Utah and Arches National Park to see one of my good friends from Yreka, Don Hill. This was a short mile long hike down a valley towards the spires in the background. At this point I was hiking by …
“Blood Moon” 12:49am MDT Monday night and early Tuesday morning the 14th and 15th we witnessed the first Lunar Eclipse of four over the next year and a half. I have never photographed an eclipse before so I was excited to have this opportunity. I was unfortunately thinking the eclipse started an hour later than …
While we were doing their serious portrait shots these two sisters also had a lot of fun playing around and hamming it up. Here is the classic “titanic” pose 🙂 Had such a great time taking these photographs. You can tell from these shots that they also had a great time in such a beautiful …
ISO 100, 50mm, f/3.5, 1/1600 sec This past weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to do some portrait work for two very lovely young ladies, Liz and Anita. They also happen to be sisters! ISO 100, 50mm, f/3.5, 1/1250 sec We went first out to the Shasta Valley Wildlife Refuge which I knew would provide …
I had so many photographs from the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge I decided to break them into several posts. This one obviously is of the waterfowl we saw at the refuge. ISO 400, 420mm, f/5.6, 1/1250 sec My son Christian and I arrived over at the refuge at about 10am last Saturday. Along the …
I’ve been working on the 500+ photographs I took this past Saturday over at the Lower Klamath National Wildlife area. After I had edited the shots of this bald eagle I had to stop and share. ISO 400, 420mm, f/5.6, 1/1600 sec Christian and I were driving around the Tulelake auto tour when we came …
On our way over to the coast we stopped at Jedediah State Park and went to Stout Grove to see the Redwoods. Well it was raining hard and so I went for a walk around the grove while Taunya waited in the car reading her book :). ISO 100, 24mm, f/6.3, 1.0 sec I was …
My time here in Yreka is getting very short, and there are still so many things I would like to get out and photograph before I leave. So, on Sunday afternoon I convinced my friend Linda to come photographing with me. Our end goal was the waterfall below, Fall Creek Falls. She was a good …
Well, it was a rough year for the Larsen clan at the Pinewood derby. Christian was especially upset about having a slow car. 🙁 ISO 1000, 24mm, f/4, 1/125 sec (all of the shots from the night were taken on manual exposure with the shutter speed set to 1/125 sec to help eliminate blur and …
ISO 100, 75mm, f/10, 1/6 sec Waterfalls are one of my favorite things to photograph. Usually I use a neutral density filter to take these photographs, but it was raining and overcast so I was able to get the appropriate exposure through adjusting the aperture. To be honest I was also to lazy to get …
ISO 100, 120mm, f/5.6, 1/200 sec We were blessed with two beautiful sunsets this past weekend over on the coast, with Saturday and Sunday both providing us with a great sunset. As I take and process sunset photographs I try to do one of two things. I either concentrate on an area of the sky …
In northern Utah close to Brigham City is this wonderful wildlife refuge. It is huge, took a few hours just to drive through it. When I was out visiting family this past summer, my sister Bonnie and I went to this refuge to take some photographs of the birds. ISO 200, 300mm, f/4.0, 1/5000 sec …