A week and a half ago from the 23-25th of August we went down to Forence OR, to our usual haunt Driftwood Shores resort, for a family reunion. We had a great time on the beach, I took photographs of the Heceta Head Lighthouse Saturday morning at sunrise as tradition dictated. Then Taunya and I …
On New Year’s Day morning I was out with our chocolate lab, Lucy, and saw this Red Tail hawk up in the trees where we live. So I ran and got my camera and my 300mm lens which has the 1.4x teleconverter on it, to take some photos. The sun was behind a cloud bank …
Early Monday morning on August 21st, I headed out planning to drive to Shaniko, OR to watch the solar eclipse. I was planning on leaving at about 2:30 am, but when I set my alarm I set it for pm instead of am…..Fortunately, for me, Taunya woke up at 3:45 am and woke me up. …
A couple of Sundays ago we noticed a “dog” we didn’t recognize out in the field by our house. I thought it might be a coyote so we got the binoculars and took a look. Sure enough it was a coyote hunting field mice. So I ran downstairs and got my camera to get some …
Saturday I wanted to do some hiking and some photography. So I borrowed a friends 4runner and headed up to Sylvan Lake State Park outside of Eagle Co. It was rained on and off for the first few hours I was there. Not too hard just a slight rain. Because of this I walked along …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
ISO 320, 420mm, f/6.3, 1/1600 sec Saturday I worked all morning to get some of my chores done so I could head out and take some photographs for a couple of hours! My end goal was the Shasta Valley Wildlife Refuge, but I drove out Yreka-Ager road to the county airport to look for wildlife …
ISO 400, 420mm, f/6.3, 1/2000sec I wanted to start the new year off right so obviously either a road bike ride or a photo shoot was necessary. I just purchased the Nikon TC-14EII teleconverter, in fact it arrived the day before on the 31st of December, and was anxious to try it out on my …