This past week I’ve struggled to identify the subject of a series to follow the Death Valley series. Then it hit me. This has been a particularly hard winter here in Southeastern Pennsylvania with 4 major snow storms , 3 of them with accumulations over 20″. So what better way to “escape” the cold and snow than to view images of beautiful wildflowers. For the next few weeks I will be posting some wildflower images from last year. And as a side benefit, with this year’s spring wildflower season being just around the corner, of getting me, and hopefully some readers of this blog, to start planning for this year’s run of spring wildflowers. Read more »

Here is a cooperative Barred Hamlet I found in St Lucia.

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I messed up last week. Probably because dealing with that much snow got me out of sync. I had intended to post these images as a follow up to the Arrow Crabs from the week before. Here.

Jim Lhulier, scuba instructor and training director for Dudas’ Diving Duds, has found a cooperative arrow crab. Read more »

I’m a big proponent of using non-destructive techniques in a digital enhancement workflow. Among other things it means being able to change your mind at a latter date and to be able to modify or even completely remove an edit.   In CS4 Shadow/Highlight can be applied to an image as a Smart Filter.  And as a Smart Filter the tool’s dialog can be re-opened and changes applied at any time. Read more »

Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

~Author Unknown

I’m a bit behind in posting. We’ve had two 20+ inch snow storms in the last week. And was without power for almost 12 hours yesterday. But enough of my sad tale of wow. Think Caribbean.

 A school of Black Margate with a group of snorkelers above.

The shooting metadata is the same for both images:

D200 with 12-24 at 12mm
1/40 sec @ f/11 ISO 100
Matrix, Aperture Priority, 2 strobes normal sync

Day 8 is the last day of our trip. Shooting-wise, it’s going to be a very short day. Our flight out of Las Vegas isn’t until late morning so we have just enough time to shoot sunrise before the two hour drive to the airport. We chose to shoot Dante’s View, that we had scouted out a few days earlier, as it was on our way out of the park.

The full moon would not occur until the next day but it was showing very large on the horizon as we drove to the park. Had to stop and shoot it. Read more »

The other day I ran across a post on Mac Danzig’s blog. Checking a few posts in different categories I found this,  Death Valley National Park – A photography guide. For those of you that have been following my series on Death Valley, I thought you might find this interesting.

Since I have only visited the park once I, somewhat arbitrarily, decided to organize my posts around time. This being a guide, organizes the images by geographic area.

Enjoy.