Our home in North Carolina is in a very good spot. It is just the right size for us and sits on the edge of a town easement that gives us a good stretch of woods that we don’t directly pay for. As such we have enough trees to completely block out the neighborhood behind [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Nature'
Close Encounters.
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January 11, 2008 at 8:56am
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Individuality.
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January 8, 2008 at 7:55am
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When one thinks of animals in nature there is often a tendency to think they are all alike. They are so much alike that we can identify them by their stripes or patterns, so it was so much more striking when I photographed these giraffes at the Santa Barbara zoo, to realize just how individualistic these creatures [...]
Pin-point Landing.
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January 5, 2008 at 7:16pm
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Once again, we were on a family outing, this time at the NC State Arboretum and for one brief second this dragonfly landed on the tip of a leaf. I had time for two quick shots with my Nikon D70 and 80-200 zoom. One of the two shots wasn’t sharp enough and this one has [...]
A Proud Look.
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January 4, 2008 at 9:34am
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There really isn’t any bird that is quite as elegant as a swan.We went for a photo-walk, something our kids dread because I take so long. I like them because I get exercise and I can take pictures too. We went for a late afternoon walk around the lake in Cary, NC. There was a [...]
Lighting From a Softbox Made in Heaven.
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January 2, 2008 at 11:10am
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It is quite remarkable how often the images you expect the least to turn out are the ones you go back to again. We went to the Arboretum in Chapel Hill and photographed all kinds of things. It was this juxtaposition of miniature leaves over their much larger cousins that struck me. The lighting too [...]
Japanese Maple
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December 31, 2007 at 4:29pm
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We picked up a beautiful Japanese maple tree at the NCSU arboretum and planted it in our front yard where it flourished for some time.One morning on the way out the door to work, I noticed that the light was just right and quickly grabbed my camera. I used the 80–200 at 200 to isolate [...]
First of Many.
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December 27, 2007 at 9:35am
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Welcome to the launch of the Words and Pictures photo blog (would that be a “phlog” or a “bloto”?). Simply I am doing this blog to share the photographs I have taken and will continue to take over the coming years and months.We already have thousands of photographs hosted on our main website but this [...]