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Brazoria NWR - Mainly Hawks and Geese 122109 : Met Dave Billingsley at Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge. The weather man said we would have a sunny start to our shoot, but the clouds would begin to roll in in the afternoon. By between 2:30 and 3:00 PM it became apparent that he was the master of the understatement. We ran into a surprise. At least I never thought we would have geese there today. Greater White-fronted and Snow Geese were there in the back pond on the auto-trail. With all the additional birds in the refuge, I guess we should have expected the additional hawk activity. Birds-in-flight opportunities was the order of the day. None of the additional birds were anxious to come close enough for a hi-res portrait.

Brazoria NWR - Mainly Hawks and Geese 122109

Met Dave Billingsley at Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge. The weathe ...

Updated: Dec 22, 2009 9:57pm PST

Camera Test - back from Sony on 12-14-09 : On this dark overcast day with leaf and lawn soaked with rain, the stork came to my front door moments ago. He was delivering my stork back from Laredo Sony Repair Facility. No sun, no flowers, no brightly colored birds, but as Rosanna Rosanna Daba used to say on SNL, "There's[it's] always somethin.' So here are a few pictures taken in the backyard to see if Sony has me back in the saddle.

Camera Test - back from Sony on 12-14-09

On this dark overcast day with leaf and lawn soaked with rain, the sto ...

Updated: Dec 15, 2009 7:08pm PST

Seabrook, Tx Ospreys, Brown Pelicans... on 110209 : Shot Seabrook with Ken Coleman. Used my Sony Alpha 350 with the Tamron LD Di 200-500Zoom

Seabrook, Tx Ospreys, Brown Pelicans... on 110209

Shot Seabrook with Ken Coleman. Used my Sony Alpha 350 with the Tamro ...

Updated: Dec 09, 2009 12:14pm PST

Ellington Air Show - Grandson Jacob(8)'s Pics 110109 : This was a day for my 8 year old grandson to become the teacher and his Paw Paw the student. We were parked at the end of Farley St. off Genoa Red Bluff. This at the back of Ellington at the end of the runway. Jacob used my Sony Alpha 350 and a Tamron LD Dii 250mm Zoom. All were shot in Jpeg on aperture priority, AF, and ISO200. His Paw Paw is very proud of him.

Ellington Air Show - Grandson Jacob(8)'s Pics 110109

This was a day for my 8 year old grandson to become the teacher and hi ...

Updated: Nov 01, 2009 5:33pm PST

Battling the Whites, Red-Oranges & Reds 101709 : Know you all have had problems with good separation of pedals on white, red-orange, red pedals in bright sunlight. Same goes for Great White Egret feathers. On a white surface there can be up to 96% direct of specular reflection that not only messes up the exposure meter, but bounces around and kills the separating tones.

Battling the Whites, Red-Oranges & Reds 101709

Know you all have had problems with good separation of pedals on white ...

Updated: Oct 17, 2009 11:49am PST

New Macro_Lens Adapters - 101709 : Trying out new Macro-lens adapters. The screw on the end of your normal lens and act as a pair of reading glasses from Walgreens.

New Macro_Lens Adapters - 101709

Trying out new Macro-lens adapters. The screw on the end of your norm ...

Updated: Oct 17, 2009 9:54am PST

A Few of Judy's Flowers - 101409 : After all the trials making Lens AF micro-adjustments, I needed some posing posies to check 'er out on. Tried out both Tamron Zoom Lenses. The 200-500mm and the 13-200mm.

A Few of Judy's Flowers - 101409

After all the trials making Lens AF micro-adjustments, I needed some p ...

Updated: Oct 16, 2009 3:58am PST

Smugmug :

Smugmug

Updated: Oct 14, 2009 1:05pm PST

Sunrise on Bolivar Peninsula on 100309 : Ken Coleman and I met the Kingwood Photo Club this morning on the beach where the highway through High Island runs into Hwy. 87 that runs along the Bolivar Peninsula. The first shot was a single RAW shot, while the next two were using HDRI techniques.

Sunrise on Bolivar Peninsula on 100309

Ken Coleman and I met the Kingwood Photo Club this morning on the beac ...

Updated: Oct 07, 2009 6:51am PST

Some of My Favorite Bird Shots of Past Year - Part 1 : Out of the hundreds, no thousands of bird shots I have taken over the past year, from around September 08, there are a few that are my favorites. This is part one of what now will probably turn out to be a two-part series. These were taken with two different camers, my Sony Alpha 350 and my Sony Alpha 900. In most cases I used my Tamron LD-Di 200 - 500 mm zoom. A lot were better in one aspect or another, but for some reason(s), these struck me and I wanted to share them with my friends and family. I hope you enjoy them.

Some of My Favorite Bird Shots of Past Year - Part 1

Out of the hundreds, no thousands of bird shots I have taken over the ...

Updated: Sep 22, 2009 1:35pm PST

Hartmann Bridge Photoshoot w/WayneJim 090109 : Went with Wayne Wendell and Jimmy Hemphill to shoot the Fred Hartmann Bridge and then on to the Monument and Battleship Texas.

Hartmann Bridge Photoshoot w/WayneJim 090109

Went with Wayne Wendell and Jimmy Hemphill to shoot the Fred Hartmann ...

Updated: Sep 03, 2009 8:23pm PST

Melissa and Steve Dancing :

Melissa and Steve Dancing

Updated: Aug 05, 2009 10:58pm PST

Sony_HDRnDatConv :

Sony_HDRnDatConv

Updated: Jul 15, 2009 9:27pm PST

Depth of Field Test - 070509 : Still life used in experiment for controlling depth of field. Five shots were taken about 2' away at 200mm-macro,100ISO,F5.6. Camera was set to manual exposure and manual focus. The exposure was set using a Koday standard gray card. The camera was tripod mounted and a remote shutter release was used. Five shot were taken beginning with sharp focus at front edge of lime and plum and more more approximately equal intervals were taken with the last sharpest focus being on the stem area of the tomato. Then the five shots were process in the PhotoAcute software using the depth of field option.

Depth of Field Test - 070509

Still life used in experiment for controlling depth of field. Five sh ...

Updated: Jul 05, 2009 5:57pm PST

HDRTests in Corel : I used the High Dynamic Range Function in Corel Paint Ulitmate Photo 2X to combine three images each of egrets from the Rookery and some white flowers from my backyard. To each original I lowerered the brightness by 10% two times, and then combined the three images of the egret and the same to the white flowers. Afterwards I took the result of the HDR merge of the three images and used the Corel 'Backlight' function set to 40% and used the Corel Highlight Brightness adjust to lower the highlight brightness in each of the merged images to further improve the textural quality of the white egrets feathers and the white flowers petals. Let me know what you think.

HDRTests in Corel

I used the High Dynamic Range Function in Corel Paint Ulitmate Photo 2 ...

Updated: Jun 27, 2009 5:30am PST

Among Best of Last Couple Days - June 6, 2009 : Transistioning to RAW files in camera, fine tuning adjustments in camera, some improvements noted. Just wanted to share my joy and a few shots of the family.

Among Best of Last Couple Days - June 6, 2009

Transistioning to RAW files in camera, fine tuning adjustments in came ...

Updated: Jun 07, 2009 11:50am PST

Red Hat's Texas City Trip - 052709 : Elegant Dames Red Hat Group made monthly trip to Texas City.

Red Hat's Texas City Trip - 052709

Elegant Dames Red Hat Group made monthly trip to Texas City.

Updated: May 27, 2009 7:00pm PST