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Water and the Spirit.  A young girl receives a precious gift! While the picture looks so peaceful in fact the baby cried the whole time!  No matter - still was a beautiful ceremony.  Taken with Canon 135mm f/2  and is a crop of a much larger scene.  With the 135 I find I need a shutter speed of at least 1/200 to avoid motion blur - fortunately f/2 is totally great with this lens.  You can see how much detail is in focus even wide open. Canon 5d mkIII | Canon EF 135 f/2 L | 1/200 at f/2 500…

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March 8, 2017
Snyder Park
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Snyder Park

Traveling traveling traveling!  All I have been doing is traveling.  Well, I am back now and time to catch up with my life. I took this shot in Springfield, Ohio, in Snyder Park.  Its funny how you can find an interesting scene just by looking around.  Not much of a park but it does have some nice spots. Probably a good thing to do more often - slow down and look for good things.  Beauty is all around us if we only look.  Seems like only the ugly draws our attention, there is nothing like a car wreck to make…

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October 17, 2016
Foggy Morning on Doty Island
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Foggy Morning on Doty Island

October is here and the mornings are starting to feel like Fall.  I have been out and about the past few weeks on a variety of assignments for my day job.  The next few weeks will be about the same.  This shot was taken on Doty Island as the fog started to clear.  I only had my 100mm lens with me so I had to take 5 shots and stitch them together into a panorama. With the 100mm I set my shutter speed at 1/100 sec (about as slow as I dared to avoid camera shake).  At a f/9 aperture,…

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October 4, 2016
Pewit’s Nest – Baraboo
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Pewit’s Nest – Baraboo

Road Trip(!) Saturday.  Went down to Pewit's Nest natural area.  Very pretty - maybe more people than I would expect for a late Saturday afternoon in September... Late afternoon and it was relatively dark in the woods.  So the problem is too high ISO sensitivity which equals noise.  So I set the ISO to 640 - pretty low noise on my 5d - and the shutter speed and aperture on manual.  From past experience I can handhold this lens at 1/15seconds so set the speed there and then the aperture to get a reasonable exposure. Canon 5d MkIII | Canon…

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September 19, 2016
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
Wet Rocks at Loon Lake
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Wet Rocks at Loon Lake

Just some rocks on the lake shore...not even a particularly good picture.  Taken at 200mm with a non macro lens.  Shallow depth of field so not much in focus.  So why do I like this picture?  I guess it is just the colors and the patterns.  Or maybe it pulls some memories out - some beach when I was a kid.  I do love going to the beach because it makes me feel young and Summer would go on forever.   Canon 5d MkIII | Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L II | 1/800s at f/3.2

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August 4, 2016
Waiting for Spring
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Waiting for Spring

Will Spring never come?!? Here it is May and still in the 40's for temperatures.  Rode my bike to work yesterday and froze my hands and arms!  On the bright side think how bad it would be without global warming! Taken in the Town of Neenah on Oak Ridge Road.  Had to get my feet wet but all great art requires suffering (that's what we tell our selves when we are standing in cold water in the rain).  I am not sure why but the original picture just screamed out "high key sepia" so that's how I processed it. Conventional…

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May 5, 2016
Sunset on The Savannah River
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Sunset on The Savannah River

Sunset as a trucker is heading for Georgia over the Savannah River.  Traveling again and spent the week "down South" where it was warm, sunny and a bit wet.  Missed the snow and cold in Wisconsin - will Winter never end?!? I love spending time in Savannah, especially on the river.  Lots of interesting people and things to see (more posts this week).  I think the river is my favorite.  Ships go by on their way to the open ocean and I wonder where they are going and what they are carrying.  I think it is romantic!  Part of me…

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April 11, 2016
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