G rowing up, I spent a lot of time on my Grandfather’s farm. This was my favorite time of day… the chores were done, everyone was heading in from the fields or the woods and dinner was already on the stove. Everyone was hungry after a long day outside working or playing and there was […]
If you look very closely at this photo, you will see a corn field at the bottom, with the rows running towards the sunset, disappearing on the horizon. This was an interesting element that I would have loved to bring out more, but it came down a long-standing landscape photography dilemma: Expose for the sky […]
Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM
Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Taken in Fitchburg, Wisconsin in July, this photo, titled “Life” was selected as a winner in the AnchorBank 90th Anniversary Calendar Competition. The photo will be included in the 2009 AnchorBank Wisconsin Calendar and will be featured during the wonderful month of November. The calendars will be available for free at Wisconsin AnchorBank branches starting […]
I put up a birdfeeder a couple years ago and filled it with mixed birdseed. I never did get many birds, but I’ve been fighting thistles ever since. I spray them, I pull them up and dig them up. I stomp on them and curse them… and curse them… really more cursing then anything else. […]
What does HBW mean? HBW = Happy Bokeh Wednesday – a term in the Flickr community. What is Bokeh? According to Wikipedia, Bokeh (derived from Japanese bokeaji ボケ味, “blur”) is a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field. The […]
Why the tip of just this one leaf? Did it get less sunlight? More? Is it the oldest leaf on the branch? The weakest? Will it be the first to fall? The last? How many things in nature are left to chance? How much of it is by deliberate design? Was this leaf just a […]
At first, I walked past this tree. I noticed it, thought it was of some interest, but didn’t really see much of a shot. I then came back, thinking that I should try to make something of it. I started focusing on the stark, black branches against this foggy sky, but the more I stood […]
