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.........be gentle with your critiques, I am very sensitive, (but the chicks really dig it!);) This image of a sunset in the San Juan Islands (north of Whidbey Is. WA) was taken back in 1984 with an FE-2, 55mm f/2.8 AIS Micro-Nikkor and Kodachrome 64. Ah, the good old days!

If I didn't already have one, I sure as heck would! A very simple setup, two lights and a black muslin background. Oh yes, and a girl, and a real purty one at that too!

I took this portrait of Erin a couple of years ago at the beach. It was an overcast March day, so I did not have to worry about shadows. But on the other side of the coin, I would be having to deal with lower contrast as well. Not to mention no catchlights in the eyes, a no no in portraiture...

I don't miss my days of having to shovel snow one little bit, but to me at least, this guy is pretty dang funny! You have to love someone who really loves his job! Bwahahahahahahahaaaa!!! If you pahk ya cah on the side of the street, you are probably going to get it buried anyway when the...

And we have both a dog and 5 cats and I can attest to this! Dogs, cats and trust. - YouTube Here is another one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lOhvS-xyrA&feature=player_embedded

I took this image in a studio model shoot about a little over a year ago but decided to re-work it. This is what my life is down to on a Friday night, but hey, my wife has put up with me for 30 years, she is used to it! I cropped it much tighter, converted it to grayscale, lightened it a lot to...

Taken several years ago but this is the first time I tried a grayscale conversion with it, D700, 300mm f/2.8 ED-IF AIS Nikkor

The overall exposure is ver good Damon, but the snow in the foreground is pretty much blown out. I darkened it and dropped the contrast a bit. What do you think?

I took this image almost 30 years ago of a sunset in the San Juan Islands in the Straits of Juan De Fuca(the northern end of Whidbey Island). I waited until the tugboat and barge was in position to take the shot. FE-2 and 55mm f/2.8 AIS Micro Nikkor and Kodachome 64. Approximately half of all...

Shot this with a D700, 180mm f/2.8 ED AIS and a 4x ND. Two strobes for fill, triggered by RF

I took this image of a snipe fly using my favorite macro setup; a PB-6 bellows and 50mm f/1.4 AIS mounted reversed. They are not the most colorful of flies, but they sure are furry! This fly was only about 5mm long. The magnificaition on the D700 sensor was about 3x and the depth of field I am...

Unlike stuff in the studio, on location shots I always strive for simplicity. I took this image during a modeling photoshoot about a year or year and a half or so ago. We got out to the beach very early, before sun up, to get some sunrise stuff. Well as luck would have it, it turned out to be...

Holy crap, I have been using Nikon for almost 4 decades and I never even knew this lens existed! It is an ULTRA-Micro-Nikkor no less! None of that pedestrian regular Micro Nikkor crap. It is of course in M39 filter thread, so maybe I could get it and put it on my enlarger Nikon Ultra Micro...

I took this image of Shawna several years ago in one of the many cannon emplacements at FT Pickens at the western tip of our Pensacola Beach barrier island. It is a very old fort, built in the 1830's and was actually active all the way through WWII protecting our port from German U-boats. They...

If a Led Zeppelin song immediately comes to mind, you are an old fart like me! Although this may be considered by some here to be an act of heresy, first allow me to explain before passing judgment on me. If that does not do it, well then just break out the torches, axes and pitchforks and...

I love shooting with my 16mm f/2.8 Fisheye AIS Nikkor, it never seems to disappoint when it comes to interesting images. Below is a stock file photo I found on the web of the water tower at our beach water tower. It is painted to look, appropriately enough, like a beach ball. I stood at the...

I had an older style 500mm f/8 Reflex Nikkor C and found it to be an outstanding performer! Being a mirror lens there is no spherical abberation and no color fringing, something that can be a real proglem with lenses that long which don't have ED glass. I loved how buttery smooth and easy the...

We have a 110 gallon salt water aquarium and I have upon occasion photographed my Black Volatan Lionfish. Leo is getting HUGE now and eats as many as 8 or 9 goldfish at one feeding, at which point he can barely swim and heads to a corner of the tank and hangs there for a couple of days until he...

This one goes waaaay back (around 1984). I was walking the beach on northern Whidbey Island, WA and saw this scene. What really caught my eye was the two barnacles on the carapace of the small crab. They are perfectly in the center and looked like eyes to me. The sharp angular lines of the crab...

A little cutie! We have a tan Lionhead rabbit. He is about a year old now and about 3 pounds. He is adorable and actually chases our cats around when I let him out of his pen, they are afraid of him. Apparently both the cats and the rabbit never attended that "Predator vs. Prey Guidelines"...