“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 …
ISO 3200, 300mm, f/4.0, 1/250 sec (settings for all of the shots) My son Tyler is on the Yreka Boys Varsity Soccer team again this year. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing several of their games this year. Thursday, February 6th, was senior night because it was the last home game for this season. Unfortunately …