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The Star Burst

I had a w h o l e bunch of emails asking about star bursts from yesterday's blog. The questions are two part, how do you create them and how do you know where to place them. The creation is pretty simple, just close your lens down all the way and shoot. Now you want clear skies and a clean front element / filter. You can increase the star burst effect by "squeezing" the sun like just letting it peek around the edge of a limp or rock. But the biggest thing is your lens, or rather its ...

Another Bald Sky Move

When you have that bald sky and strong sun, another subject is available to you at Mono Lake. Getting there takes understanding a little bit about what is Mono Lake. The strange sculptures we love to photograph, the Tufas, are created underwater. If you're wanting to be able to tell the story of Mono Lake visually, then including this process is part of the storytelling. The other part is seeing beneath the water to visually tell that story. A polarizer is your standard tool because it removed the reflections of items such as clouds so we can see beneath the surface. ...

Look for the Gesture

Push! Just so we start on the same page, you can photograph your critters any way your heart says works. You like that click, than you are doing it the right way. There will more than likely be a point in time when you just want something more, spread your wings as it were. It's at that moment in time you need to start pushing your photography. How do you push? You do it one foot at a time: right foot, left foot, right foot, left. In this case, the first step I recommend you take in photographing shorebirds is, ...

Simple Click – Lake Tahoe Monster?

An over active imagination? Ya, I have one of those! My love affair with rocks is pretty well known and that's due in part to my imagination. For example this one at Lake Tahoe, it looks like a fish monster rising its head from the depth to spit out some chewing tabaco on us dumb photographers getting up early on a bald sky morning to shoot rocks. Perhaps a little more nuts is not only seeing this but then shooting to bring it out. Getting down near water level with D800 (ya, even wanted extra detail in the head) with ...

The 800AFS – OMG!!

The weather finally broke so at 05:15 Sharon and I were at Mono Lake with the new 800f5.6 AFS on my shoulder. I had my typical setup, Gitzo 5562GTS, Wimberley WH-200 with Moose Cam (Contour, with the only change being shooting with the D800 as my D4 and half of my gear is in for their annual CLA at Nikon. I was happy as a pig in clam shit to be out shooting critters! It was a brisk morning but not even a stitch of wind with clear skies. With the dirt still wet from the "storm" that went through, ...

Landscape Photography

The Star Burst

I had a w h o l e bunch of emails asking about star bursts from yesterday’s...

Another Bald Sky Move

When you have that bald sky and strong sun, another subject is available to you...

Simple Click – Lake Tahoe Monster?

An over active imagination? Ya, I have one of those! My love affair with rocks is...

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Moose Cam

Lightning Strikes Chino – the vid

As previously posted, I was part of the media day at Planes of Fame for their upcoming...

A Moment with Sierra Lightning

Saturday night we had the makings of a thunderstorm actually producing some much...

#74 Hits the Course

This is the closest we’ll ever get to racing at Reno. In Sept, 2011, my dear...

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Wildlife Photography

The American Dipper – pt1

So there we were after breakfast on our Mono Lake Weekend at the falls. Now the falls have had American Dipper nests since the creation of the Sierras. Knowing that, I took the 800AFS with me to the falls.... [Read more of this Post]

Look for the Gesture

The 800AFS – OMG!!

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The Star Burst

Another Bald Sky Move

Look for the Gesture

Simple Click – Lake Tahoe Monster?