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Our front porch this past 4th of July. Happy 246th birthday America!

I came upon this unique and very beautiful arachnid by chance in the bushes outside our house. D850, 105mm f/2.8 AIS Micro Nikkor

D850 and 105mm f/2.8 AIS Micro Nikkor

Our greatest generation. Even for a 3 time combat Infantryman like me, all subsequent generations owe our greatest generation a debt we could never possibly repay.

Our beautiful Tortoise Shell Calico Rosemary. She is such a sweetheart!

It is called the Nikon NEPS1. Here it is mounted on my D750:

There is a fair amount of spherical aberration wide open but that can make for some very nice soft focus "dreamy" portraits. It is gone by f/2.8 and the lens is extremely sharp after that until diffraction sets in. I do not trust the focusing dot, never have. Since all my Nikkors are manual...

This was taken one afternoon as I was leaving the Circle B Bar Ranch Preserve in Lakeland, FL. I saw these two GBH's in the nest moving around. I had the D700 and my 600mm f/4 beast on a monopod so I just focused on them and waited for them to do something. Fleetingly it appeared that their...

Great shot! They pack a powerful sting but are beautiful insects! I snatched one off my railing one day and euthanized it in the freezer and took a macro shot of its head. It took about 20 frames focus stacked. The most amazing thing about macro is we get to see things we could never see with...

Mt. Ranier (14410 feet) taken from the observation deck of the Seattle Space Needle. The atmospheric haze and distance, about 75 miles, from downtown Seattle makes Ranier seem to "float" above the landscape. Taken on a very rare clear winter day in the Pacific Northwest. F2 Photomic, 55mm...

Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, SC D850, 200mm f/2 ED IF AIS Nikkor

I made a trip to Magnolia Gardens north of Charleston this past Monday. It is an amazing place for landscape and wading bird photography!

My wife and I went to Charleston, SC on St. Patty's Day (I am nearly 100% Irish, it is the law!) for a day of imbibement and debauchery and I could not resist taking this photo of the doors of the First Citizens Bank. I don't recall the exact date of construction of the building but it was late...

One of the greatest complaints of the F5 posed by photographers was it's "excessively heavy" weight. I put my F5 with a 36 exposure roll of film on a digital scale and it weighed 1069g (2.36 lbs). I then put the D850 with MB-D18 battery grip and EN-EL18 (the single D5 battery which weighs a lot...