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I have not been around here much in the last month or so, been very busy and not a lot of time for photography. I did go out today and shoot a large population of "Honkers", Canadian Geese, in a large lake nearby. They have a habit of sticking their butts in the air as they root around in the...

I am becoming a lens "hoarder" I took these images for insurance purposes but it was not until I realized just how many lenses I have. These photos don't include my two Nikonos (35mm f/2.8 and 28mm f/3.5) Nikkors, which are still at home and the 50mm f1.4 AI'd Nikkor with which I took the...

I have always shied away from zooms in favor of primes (though I did have the superlative 80-200 f/4.5 non-AI Nikkor for many years) but this was too good to pass up. I read a lot of reviews on this lens and all were glowingly positive. It will certainly not replace my 50mm f/1.4, 85mm f/1.4 and...

I never unpacked (though I did pull everything out and re-arrange it) most of the stuff from the Jeep as it was not needed. The Jeep got new shoes yesterday and I will get the oil changed again. About 1000 miles early but I have another 1200 to get there. The engine has 218,000 on it so I will...

I intentionally took both of these almost to "chalk and charcoal" to further strengthen the abstractness of the image. It also emphasizes the cold (though the temperature was about 20º, not all that cold if you are dressed for it). I wish I had had the Hasselblad with me, a mistake I won't make...

Although I am very happy with this image, I felt absolutely miserable for this poor beautiful animal. It was 17º (-8 for you folks with that funny Celsius thing) with blowing snow. I was dressed for it so I was very comfortable. All this poor animal had was a very thin layer of hair and it was...

I shot this yesterday and all of that snow was gone by late this morning but it is snowing again and is supposed to continue through tonight and into tomorrow, with 5-8" possible. D700 and 80-200mm f/4 AIS around 180mm +/-.

The gig in Laramie did not pan out because they hired a full time person in the slot I would have taken. The hospital in Winnebago is actually on an Indian reservation and the hospital is about the size of the one where I am now. Their demographics will be essentially 100% Winnebago Indian. The...

I got up a little before dawn and headed south to a reservoir which supposedly had a lot of Bald Eagles. No baldies, but a very nice dawn! Not 3 miles further south and I started hitting sleet, another few miles and it was snow and by the time I got to Alpine (about 20 miles south of...

I shot these two bighorn sheep at the Phoenix zoo with the 600mm f/4 and TC-300. Their exhibit was quite large. But add my twisted sense of humor, and hilarity will ensue, this is like an episode of Married with Children!

"Prickly Pear" is a misnomer and a great understatement. These succulents, though beautiful, are the devil's spawn. Their spines are as sharp as a freakin' sewing needle but far more flexible. They embed themselves into your flesh and break off. I have yanked outs out of my shins which have...

The "Prickly Pear" is a gross understatement. These things are the devil's spawn. Their spines are a sharp as a sewing needle but far more flexible. I have yanked ones out of my shins which had buried themselves a half inch or more. But I will dig one up and bring it home with me to FL, the...

There is this beautiful Catholic Church coming into Cottonwood (just south of Sedona) that had twin steeples like this. The perfect symmetry of the adobe colored steeples against that perfect blue sky was too much to pass up. 80-200mm f/4 AIS around 180mm. This is but one rendition of it, but I...

The hospital has been busy switching over to a new software system so we have all been very busy trying to work out the kinks so I have been MIA from here for several days. Here is an image I took the next day from the last one I posted. I had to scale quite a steep "mini-mountain" to get an...

And to start things off, my Blackberry is lost somewhere in the Sedona wilderness. It came off of my belt without me ever knowing it. Fortunately for me I am not that kid of person who sees losing their phone as a cataclysmic event. For me it is more of an inconvenience. My wife "pinged" and...

What an amazing place this is!! I am staying in Cottonwood, about 20 miles to the south. The drive to Sedona is filled with amazing landscapes as well. The skies were absolutely cloudess an a deep blue. I shot this one about 4 in the afternoon just south of Sedona with the 300mm f/2.8 AIS on a...

It might be my last opportunity to photograph the American Southwest for a long time. I really wish I had the Hasselblad and a half dozen rolls of T-Max 100 but I guess I will have to settle for digital. In a perfect world I would also have a 4x5 with me, but unfortunately we live in an...

I know most of you do not speak German, but below is a link to the original version of the timeless Christmas hymn Silent Night. Even if you do not speak the language, you can appreciate the beauty of the words, an uncommon thing for German, which it is a very guttural language and when I spoke...

Phoenix Zoo around mid morning. D700 and 600mm f/4 ED-IF AIS and TC-300. A monopod was an absolute necessity with this combination. In fact, the monopod stayed attached to the "beast" the whole time. It is simply too heavy and unwieldy to easily hand hold and focus at the same time, most...

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a Son, and will call him Immanuel. -Isaiah 7:14 Enjoy your time with friends and family. I HOPE I don't get any patients today, or at least nothing serious!