My Photography
I have always loved photography. For years I had a wet darkroom dealing
mostly with slow speed Black and White film and making he prints on nice fiber
matt paper. The camera of choice for this was a classic Nikon F2SB.
It was a beautiful thing.
Later I bought a Nikonos-V and began capturing the beauty of the underwater
world. This became a lesson in discipline and technical skills. The discipline
part was because you couldn't change film underwater and I didn't even like
changing rolls between dives (one drop of well placed salt water cost me over
$600 in repair bills). The technical part involves lighting issues,
especially backscatter, focus and exhaust bubbles getting in the photo. I
actually became fairly good at this. If I got back into it I would
use a digital camera with a big memory card, quality case and lens port plus a
flash or two on extension arms.
When I got into Astronomy I played around with Gas Hypersensitized Tech
Pan. Basically, this allows long exposures in very dim light. Just
about the time I finished the Hypersensitizing
chamber Kodak quit making Tech Pan film and Digital cameras were taking over
the telescopes also. Honestly, I was never very good at taking long
exposures through a telescope - also called prime focus photography, but it was fun to try (I haven't given up!)
Of course now everything is digital.
Below are some of my favorite photos of the
moment (I also
have these and other photos on Flikr
now).
Click on any photo for a larger view and use
your back button to return here.
 Young
raccoon waiting for its mother |
 Heron
reflecting on itself |
 Sandhill
Crane |
Osprey with trout breakfast |
 Long
lens pretending it's a macro |
 Wasp at
Sawgrass Lake Park |
Red Shoulder Hawk |
Fern at Sawgrass Lake Park |
 The Cog Train heading up Mount Washington, NH. |
 The Moon - 5-25-2007.
Nikon D70s and a long lens. |
 Really cute frogs in my front yard. |
 The Duane's
Stack |
 Juvenile Yellow-crowned night-heron |
 An
independent Florida Alligator |
 A local
Anhinga not doing much. |
 Blue-eyed Ibis |
 Tortoise at dusk.
Olympus C3000z. |
 Incoming! |
Sulfur butterfly hiding on a leaf |
Father and son |
 Bee at Chinsegut Nature Center.
Olympus C3000z. |
 Vietnam Memorial Wall on Mother's Day |
 The
white behind the spider was lichen on a tree about four feet behind the web. |
 Independence Day fireworks. Nikon D70s, 3 sec at f/8. |
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