Archive | 2008

Fall Findings

There’s always so much to do when Fall comes around.  New Hampshire is always loaded with incredible sights, smells, and feelings.  Crisp fall air, the occasional dreary and cold rainstorm, and vibrant colors that renew your eyes, and bring you back to when you were a kid picking apples at the local orchard.  Oh yeah, [...]

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Shooting shooting.

Kind of a interesting way of putting it, if I do say so myself.  It always gives me the willies when I’ve got a 50mm macro lens focused about 4 inches away from the business end of a .45 caliber Glock. A word of advice.  If you ever decide to start photographing shooting sports and [...]

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The Beast Eye

 So I picked up the new Sigma 50mm f2.8 DG Macro off of a very nice lady on Ebay… I couldn’t beat the price, and couldn’t believe that my bid won. I started testing it out on a bunch of different static stuff… mounted on the Manfrotto Digi, mounted on the Gorillapod; all still life, [...]

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Crystal Lake… early morning.

Here’s the schedule. 5:25 a.m. – The cell phone alarm clock goes off, and I’m up and out of bed. 5:35 a.m. – Make a cup of Chamomile Apple tea with honey in a travel mug (I don’t do caffeine… crazy, right?) 5:50 a.m. – On the road to Crystal Lake in Eaton NH to [...]

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HDR on the Farm.

I ended up getting a great opportunity to get this HDR shot on the farm a few weeks ago.  I’ll let you in on the idea… first, here’s the shot.   It was a beautiful day… and the clouds looked HUGE. Generally it tends to be difficult to get the depth of the blue skies [...]

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