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I actually turned out better with only 125 30-sec exposures than the 200 I wanted to get!

I went out and set up for a star trail photo tonight. It got cold (low 40's) and my fully charged batteries in both the body and MB-D10 only lasted through 125 frames before giving up the ghost. I was hoping to get at least 200. Not sure how well the star trails will turn out, I will not merge...

This one is a beauty and pretty young, it is probably only his second year. He was out in a field with a doe. They were maybe 25-30 yards away tops. They checked me out when I was setting up and then went back to grazing, apparently not feeling threatened at all. I actually had to clap my hands...

I went out this afternoon looking for the mulies and came upon the largest herd of mule deer I have ever seen in my entire life. There must have been at least 50 of them, from yearlings to the Alpha buck. I drove back like a bat out of hell and put on my BDU’s, grabbed the D700, tripod, 300mm...

Today was my first day off since I got here so I decided to load up the camera gear and start scoping out the place. I spotted this group of Mule Deer does and their fawns chilling out under a shade tree in the middle of a large field. I pulled the Jeep over to the roadside, grabbed the 600mm...

We are at 7000 MSL and surrounded on all 4 sides by mountains. There is a 3000' peak about 15 miles from here that is just begging to be climbed and camped on. The town is small and the nearest Walmart is 50 miles away but who cares. There is a miniature "Bass Pro Shop" right next to the...

It calculates the difference in f/ stops between two stops you enter or you can enter in one f/ and the amount in f/ stops and it will calculate the difference second one for you. F-Stop Calculator

Just playing around with PhotoMatix HDR. This chimney may not look like much but it actually as quite a history. I had to climb onto the roof of my Jeep, camera and tripod in hand, to take this image(s) and even then I still had to correct for perspective distortion. Taken with the 18mm f/3.5...

I figured I could cut 3 lenses out of my bag, 85mm f/1.4, 105mm f/1.8 and 180mm f/2.8, with this one lens. I have never been much of a zoom guy, but this last version of the 80-200mm f/4 AIS has the distinction of being probably the sharpest lens in this category that has ever made. It focuses...

I have heard lots of great things about it being a mecca for nature and scenic photography. Bosque is about a 3 hour drive from Springerville, AZ, which is not bad at all. If all goes well, I will work 4 (12 hr) days on, and 3 off. I could drive over there and hike to a camping spot...

This is my "backyard engineered" bracket I will take with me to AZ to use for fill flash when shooting wildlife. The Sunpak's alone are very powerful flashes (out to 70' in auto or manual) but with two of them I can add a whole stop to that. I will be getting a couple of "Better Beamers" to go...

This image was one that looked so good through the viewfinder but when the film is developed and proofed it kind of fell short of expectations. This was shot with the F2 and 24mm f/2.8 Nikkor on Tri-X

This is Pam Shriver at the Dupont Championships at Amelia Island FL in1989 I believe. Taken with the F2S w/ MD-2/MB-1 and the 300mm f/4.5 AIS on a monopod and High Speed Ektachrome film ASA 160. I processed all of my own film (not as hard as you might think, but slide film has more steps than...

I am hoping to start in about 2 1/2 weeks at a hospital in Springerville, AZ. It is a small town and a small hospital but I will be working for my old boss there. He is a traveler too but will probably sign on full time. And the best part about it is there are ROADS in and out of this place and...

I have been looking for one of these literally for years. They are as rare as hen's teeth and are usually pretty expensive (>$100). This guy was practically giving this one away for $31 including shipping. It is pretty much immaculate. I almost feel like I stole it from him for that price...

As I was shooting today something came to mind. This question is really for those of us who have spent (or still spend) a lot of time in the darkroom. Although one could ever dispute that programs like Photoshop and Lightroom have given photographers of all skill levels a powerful tool to tweak...

I shot this image today inside the lighthouse at NAS Pensacola. The quarters are pretty cramped so I first pulled out the 18mm and when I peered through the viewfinder I heard this voice in my head saying..............NAAAAAAAAAAH! it had a good graphical effect but there was just something...

I recently updated my desktop from Win 7 32 bit to 64 bit. When I did, however, I did not disable the auto updates as I am accustomed to doing. MS downloaded a bunch of updates yesterday and bad and entirely unwanted things happened. First, it automatically updated my IE from 10 to 11. Now, my...

Fast forward to fall 1977 and my sophomore year at Carolina. I did a lot of shooting for the UNC yearbook but enjoyed doing the football and basketball stuff the most. It was hard to shoot the baseball games and tennis matches because I was either on the field or the courts! Between 2 majors, 2...

I found a big box of old negatives/slides/prints that pretty much went back all the way to the beginning; 1972 for me. There must have been literally a football field's and a half length of negatives and slides in glassine sleeves (I usually did not mount my slides if I was going to print them...