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Living Coral – Pantone Color for 2019
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Living Coral – Pantone Color for 2019

The Pantone color of the year is Living Coral. They call it "an animating and life-affiriming coral hue with a golden undertone that energizes and enlivens with a softer edge." Well, sounds impressive, I guess. On a recent safari I captures ice boats cruising on Lake Winnebago and thought they would make a great use of living coral. Here is the original photo: The next step, in photoshop, is to select all the highlights and create a new layer with a highlight mask. You then use the color picker to brush Living Coral into all the highlights. The next step…

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December 28, 2018
Blue Angels over Lake Winnebago
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Blue Angels over Lake Winnebago

We went cruising last Saturday and enjoyed the water on Lake Poygan.  My love made a suggestion we cruise down to Oshkosh and maybe we could get a glimpse of the 5:00 airshow at EAA.  As we entered Lake Winnebago at Oshoksh we could not believe all the boats just around the corner!  There must have been 500!  Good idea dear! Finding a nice spot to drop anchor we were treated by an awesome display by the Blue Angels.  While I did not have my professional camera I did get some nice shots using my Lumix LX7.  I also caught…

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August 10, 2017
First Full Moon of Winter
Moon rise over Lake Winnebago
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First Full Moon of Winter

The first full moon of 2017 and Winter.  It was a cold and windy night.  I was thinking I must me either dedicated or crazy (of course, both could be true).  To properly expose both the moon (which is very bright) and the light house I used a 5 step bracket, set for +/- 3 stops.  I then used 2 photos to make the picture - one of the moon and the other for the lighthouse.  Below is another taken at 400mm.  

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January 13, 2017
Max and Saurab at High Cliff
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Max and Saurab at High Cliff

Site seeing with some friends from Grenoble, France. We watched a beautiful sunset at High Cliff State Park and really enjoyed the colors. This is a technically difficult picture to pull off for several reasons.  The first is the backlight from the sunset will fool your camera into making their faces really dark.  However, if you expose for their faces the sunset will be too bright and all the color will be lost.  The second is the high depth of field requires a small aperture which will drive the shutter speed down and the ISO up.  Low shutter speed -…

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August 29, 2016
Strawberry Moonrise on The Summer Solstice
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Strawberry Moonrise on The Summer Solstice

The Strawberry moon rises over Lake Winnebago.  The full moon in June is known as the strawberry moon - guess it is time to pick!  This year the full moon came on the Summer Solstice (the longest day of the year).  Won't happen again in my lifetime! There are two difficult things about photographing the moon - it is so bright and it moves pretty fast.  Where you usually have to crank up the ISO and slow down the shutter for the moon you need a pretty fast shutter and a low ISO.  This was taken at 400mm so the…

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June 21, 2016
April Moonrise
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April Moonrise

A chilly Friday night at Asylum Point, Lake Winnebago, for the moonrise.  We caught some really nice pictures so it was worth freezing! These shots were captured by my "Guest Photographer" Lily.  Excellent job!

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April 24, 2016
Last Day of February
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Last Day of February

The last day of February as the sun rises over Lake Winnebago.  So Long February - let's hope March is warm and sunny! Lots of open water on the lake - the warm weather the past 2 weeks has had an impact.  The top is slushy but there were fishing shacks still on the lake yesterday. Taken with my Panasonic Lumix LX-7. Panasonic Lumix LX-7 | 4.7mm | 1/125 sec f/5.6

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March 1, 2016
Cold and Dark
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Cold and Dark

End of January and not much sunlight this year.  I like the first snow and the early Winter but February starts to get to me!  Seems like it is happening early this year.  January is normally sunny... This was the view from Kimberly Point yesterday and kind of sums up the whole month. Another snowy picture so I set the exposure for 2/3 stop over to compensate for the whiteness. Canon 5d MkIII | Canon 16-35 f/4 | 1/320 sec at f/11

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January 29, 2016
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