Last Night’s Rising Moon

On my way home from my barbershop concert last night this huge moon was rising over Mt. Shasta.  You know one of those huge optical illusion orangeish moons.  I rushed home and grabbed my tripod and camera and drove south looking for a good spot to take a picture. I wish I knew more about …

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Trout Lake

Spent this evening out on Trout lake in Shasta Valley with a good friend Matt Baun, for the opening day of fishing on this reservoir.  Took my new bamboo fly rod, I just finished making, out for its maiden voyage!!  Nice action and looks really sexy also, but I may be partial here.  As you can tell …

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Prom 2012

Last saturday I had the great pleasure of taking some pre-prom photos of two lovely young ladies, Faith and Danielle.  The time of day was between 6pm and 7:30pm so the lighting was excellent for the most part with the sun already lowish in the sky. The location was the Greenhorn Park and reservoir. The camera I …

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Lithia Park

Last summer right after I purchased my D7000 Taunya and I went for a photo shoot of Lithia Park in Ashland Oregon with some friends Bill and Sarah Epstein. Sarah had also recently purchased a D7000 and we wanted to get together for some fun shooting and learning. Lighting was great in the park and …

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Nikon D7000 Back Focusing

I’ve had my D7000 for almost a year now and have taken over 5000 pictures with it to date.  For about 6 months I have struggled with it focusing behind the subject.  I’m not a pro photographer so I wasn’t sure what was causing the issue. I made several communications with Nikon USA service about …

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Late Night Posting….

Not sure why I’m still up at 1am playing around with this website.  I get a little obsessive when I start a project. Purchased a new Nikkor AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G this week.   Took it for a test run yesterday with the kids playing with a football in the yard.  I’ll post some sample pictures …

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