5D Mk IV – EF 24-70 f/2.8L – 580 EX II SpeedLite – 1/125, f/13, ISO 100, Eval Meter This week I had absolutely no time to work on any artsy photography stuff. I spent the entire week working on our one acre yard. In our 30 years here, this is the worst I have seen it post-winter. I have never seen this many sticks. I ended up hand raking the entire yard and then detaching it, and then raking […]

DJI Mini 2 Drone – 1/1250, f/2.8, ISO 100, CWA Meter I took the pictures last Sunday to create this panorama of the Hoosier Crossroads Wind Farm. If you remember last year, for Project 365, I took a similar picture that made the PotD on March 16. However, all the source photos were somehow lost and I was left with single low resolution image. I vowed to do better and here it is.

Not much to say here. This was an uneventful week.

5D Mk II – EF 28-135 f/3.5 – 1/250, f/9, ISO 100, Spot Meter A few weeks ago, I came upon a group of photos that hadn’t been merged into a panorama. They were taken in 2011 – twelve years ago, so I’m guessing that stitching panoramas then was a bit more complicated. This photo merge probably just got lost due to Father Time, if that makes sense. This photo is of one of our favorite scuba destinations – Coco […]

Bulb: 5D Mk IV – EF 24-70mm F/2.8L – 1/5, f/6.3, ISO 100, Eval Meter Another Surreal art photo. This is two pictures (3 pics really) – the lightbulb and the sunset. The sunset was taken in 2021 in Florida. The bulb was taken this week in my studio. Actually, the bulb was the hardest part of this pic. It was a lot of trial and error to get a photo of the bulb that had no reflections and glare […]

‘Self-Portrait in a Mirror’ 5D Mark IV – EF 24mm F/3.5 L – 1/200, f/6.3, ISO 100, Eval Meter This weeks PotW is titled ‘Self-Portrait in a Mirror’. The pic itself looks easy enough but it was a complex shoot. Mostly because I was working in such a confined space. If you are familiar with our house, you know the foyer entry is pretty small, with a mirror on the wall as you enter. This was the area of the […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/320, f/5.6, ISO 125, Eval Meter Do you remember this truck from last year’s Project 365? The photo was taken on August 27, 2022. Even though it made it as one of the best photos of 2022, I’ve had this gnawing feeling that I could have done a lot better. You see, for the PotD on August 27, I tried to recreate an old-style tintype effect using only Lightroom. The problem is, I don’t […]

5D Mk IV – EF 24-70 F/2.8L and Digital Rebel XT This PotW represents some of my history. In the front we have a KC-135 on static display and right behind it we have a KC-135 landing. In the 80’s, I was a Navigator in this airframe. I recently spent a day in Dayton, Ohio and stopped by the National Museum of the US Air Force (NMUSAF). You may have heard me mention that I’ve been trying to organize a […]

Canon 50D – EF 70-200mm F/4L – 1/250, f/9, ISO 100, Eval Meter This is another old pic from 2012 that I found of Mt. Ranier. In full transparency, I did substitute a rather drab sky with a sky from a Clearwater Beach, Florida pic I took in 2021. You can see the original pic with drab sky below. You be the judge on which you like better. This was going to be a PotW sometime, but I didn’t really […]

‘Ragged Blades’ DJI Mini 2 – 1/1600, f/2.8, ISO 100, CWA Meter This PotW, while falling in the bizarre category, didn’t start out this way. I have been working on several ‘concept’ photos this week, and one of those was intended to be the PotW. However, don’t fret – you’ll see one, or more, of these in the future. This past Thursday was a clear, sunny day – but really cold. In any case, I decided to get the drone […]

Canon EOS 50D – 1/160, f/8, ISO 100, Eval Meter This PotW is a real cool panorama that is a whopping 12.5 years old (well the photos are, not the panorama). I have been reviewing, organizing, key-wording, and classifying my 65,000+ photos on my hard drive. That’s over two terabytes of pics. Anyway, I came across a group of 6 photos, and while not any single pic stood out, I recognized I might be able to merge them into a […]

‘The Call of the Wild’ 5D Mark IV – Multiple Photos and Exposures Here we have what might qualify as Surreal Art – ‘The Call of the Wild’. I said it might be controversial, and I guess that is in the eye of the beholder. This started out as a concept a few weeks ago when I was playing around. Watching Yellowstone with the wolves eyeing the cows got me to thinking. It got more and more pronounced as time […]

Exploding Bulb 5D Mk IV – EF 24-70mm F/2.8L II – 1.6 sec, f/11, ISO 100, Spot Meter It’s great being in the right place at the right time. I heard this light bulb hissing so I set up the camera and ‘BOOM”! Ok, maybe that’s not exactly the way it went down.Here’s the short version how I did this. I used an amber, old-fashioned style light bulb. I set it up on a glossy black reflective surface. I used […]

DJI Mini 2 Drone – 1/800, f/2.8, ISO 100, CWA Meter Well here we go folks. Even though this started out as a full week, I spent most of my time closing out Project 365 from 2022 so didn’t have a whole lot of time for new creative endeavors. However, like I said, the rules for this project are much more flexible. In this first installation of the PotW, I’m pulling a panorama from November 2022. This photo did not […]