Had fun this afternoon working with my friend Max taking his senior pictures. Max is a serious guy who has a smart wit as anyone knows who follows his tweets can attest! As we climb into the car I have had the Scorpions blasting on the way over to his house. I ask him what …
The time of year has come for senior pictures! Yearbook editors are also preparing the photographs to be included in the yearbook. Yreka High School’s deadline for senior picture submission to the yearbook is November 29th, 2013. I have a senior in high school this year, Tyler, and will be doing his senior pictures within the next …
Here are the rest of the photographs from my photography trip over to the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge on Labor Day. I love these Blue Herons. They are difficult to photograph because of their shy nature. It’s impossible to get close to them with out them flying off. Nice photograph of the north face of …
For the Labor day holiday I took the opportunity with my friend Linda to visit the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge once again. The water this time of year is down significantly from the winter/spring time so most of the wildlife is located around Tule Lake. There is an auto tour that you can take around this …
Because I took so many photographs on this hike I separated them into two posts. The previous post of the wildflowers and this post which includes the landscapes and the family hiking. For all of these photographs I was using the 24-120mm f/4 lens with a circular polarizing filter. I have found with my landscape photography I use the …
In July when we went to Utah to visit my family we stayed with my sister Jolene and her family. One of the days we were there we went on a hike with Jolene and her family up the trail to South Willow Lake. The wildflowers were amazing on the hike and so of course …
Sunday evening David England and I went up Dead Indian Road out of Ashland to photograph the Perseids Meteor shower. Since we went straight up from a church priesthood meeting I was still in my church clothes and with out a jacket. Fortunately, David’s son Nathan had a jacket I could borrow so I didn’t …
A few years ago I was looking into some family history online and stumbled across a great great great uncle that had lived in Yreka, a John Stout, and was pleasantly surprised that he was buried here. I knew that some of my Mom’s family, the Stouts, had moved to Klamath Falls but was unaware that anyone …
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 …