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Since the "pro" vs "amateur" discussion has reared its ugly head, I wanted to address it here briefly. There is only one difference between pro and amateur: one runs a business and the other does not. Nothing to do with quality, knowledge, or expertise in photography. One of the most rapidly...

Mar. 8th 67/365 "Smoke Gets In Your Eye" Have been wanting to do some creative stuff with smoke (since I did mirrors a little while ago LOL). I forgot to change the iso from last night ; 1000, so pic ended up a little noisy; however Define 2.0 did a good job of taking it out.

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Mar.7th 66/365 "Our Local Grocery Store" (where I'll be shopping more often instead of driving the 25 miles to Wal Mart!)

I am happy to say I was selected to be a VAL for the Flashbus tour in Albuquerque. I'll get to hold/position lights on stage, get preferred seating, and a free ticket. All this because I spotted it on Twitter (because I follow Joe McNally) and responded immediately. First 5 were picked. The...

Mar. 6th 65/365 "Wilderness Trip Planning" Thought I'd play around with depth of field while looking for interesting roads on the topographical map. The car came out of the Cheerios box this morning. I actually went to the trouble of pasting the decals on it. It's been a long time since I...

Well, I went in a different direction. "Yesterday . . . all my troubles seemed so far away. . . "

Mar. 5th 64/365 "Takeoff" Lots of wildlife were coming my way today. Spotted this hawk perched atop a utility pole. Just as I made a u-turn and stopped the truck, he decided to take off -- another opportunity to practice "rapid draw and focus".

Mar. 4th 63/365 "My Last Apple . . .before shopping day!"

Do you know what this is, can you decipher it, and what does this have to do with photography?

Mar. 3rd 62/365 "Grand Entry Gate"

Mar. 2nd 61/365 Well, I'm barely getting this in . . . spent so much time with the flashes and dogs for the "spaceship shot", that I almost didn't get these processed. I'm still enjoying the browns and oranges of winter, but am so looking forward to the greens of spring!

Hopefully in the nick of time . . .!

Mar. 1st 60/365 "Mona Lisa Demi Tasse" Focus stacking: 5 shots at different focal points and processed in Helicon Focus and Lightroom.

Feb. 28th 59/365 "Wanna' Dance" Playday for short-legged doggies today!

Feb. 27th 58/365 "Elusive Springtime" Temp is back down in the 30's, wind is gusting 50-60 mph, and it's snowing HORIZONTALLY! Definitely an indoor day!

Feb. 26th 57/365 "Silver Dollar Steakhouse" in Tinnie, NM Decided to try out this old manual focus 19mm lens I had for one of my film cameras. f stop had to be set manually (f/8) 6 auto bracketed shots, iso 640, Nikon D2x, Photomatix Pro. Lens did pretty well in a pinch (. . . haven't...

Feb. 25th 56/365 "Long and Short Legs" Still working on getting the perfect "panned" action shot . . . not there yet! LOL

Feb. 24th 55/365 "Apples on Parade" This is an example of focus stacking, which is something I've been wanting to try. It's similar to HDR, except instead of different exposures, you're shooting different focus points to expand the depth of field. I used 11 images --first focus was the front...

Feb. 23rd 54/365 "Did you bring me a new toy??"