Scary Bunnies
Published April 24, 2011 | 
“Oh, great! Any more and we’ll be able to do a production of bloody Watership Down!”
People have said I can find the dark side of anything.. Well, judging from these strange Easter bunny costumes from a 1996 episode of “The Vicar of Dibley”, I’m not the only one. These are some scary bunnies! And speaking of finding the dark side, you’d never guess what I came across while out hiking on the Ice Age Trails yesterday.. an Easter basket!! Now what could be dark about an Easter basket? Continue reading
Pentax Optio – (insert curse here)
Published March 19, 2010 | 
Is something wrong, she said – Well of course there is
You’re still alive, she said – Oh, and do I deserve to be
Is that the question?
pearl jam
Is not the Optio by Pentax the biggest shaft ever put to a paddlers hide? I’m on my 3rd. The W60 is the first one that actually stayed working for more than one season. Working, just long enough for the lens to do it’s impersonation of the record from Monty Python’s Hungarian phrasebook sketch. “I will not buy this camera, It is scratched.” Of course it is. There’s no freaking lens cap! Great plan for a camera that’s supposed to put up with what outdoor folks can throw at it.. Seems obvious doesn’t it? (insert curse here) Continue reading
Bronze
Published November 15, 2009 | 
Nothing remains / We could run / when the rain slows
Look for the cars or signs of life / Where the heat goes
Look for the drifters / We should crawl under the bracken
Look for the shafts of light on the road
Where the heat goes – bowie
So the idea is to take 3 pictures and sort of mush them together in a way that adds way more data & depth than an average photograph. Normally this “HDR” or High Dynamic Range photography produces wildly surreal images. Much of that of course is due to the artistic whims of the photographer who has endless opportunity to tweek the images during processing. I’ve never really messed with HDR myself. For me most of the enjoyment of photography is in the moment and trying to capture the minds eye as it were (A hopeless task from the start I might add.). I’ll certainly edit images in Photoshop, but my joy is camera in hand. Still, I’m also driven to know how things are done, which sent me out to give HDR a go myself yesterday. Only the challenge I set for myself was to make it look well, real. Then once I got started I totally adjusted my thinking. Yeah, that’s just like me!
Posted in Cameras & Photography, Outdoor Recreation, travel | 
baraboo, HDR, pewits nest, photography, wisconsinEarly Morning Stroll
Published September 6, 2009 | 
with my face pressed up to the glass, wanting you
beautiful, you’re beautiful, as beautiful as the sky
wonderful, it’s wonderful, to know that you’re just like I
and i’m sure you know me well, as i’m sure you don’t
but you just can’t tell who’ll you love
and who you won’t
– smashing pumkins
I spend a good amount of time in the absence of others. It starts in the morning when for whatever reason I’m usually awake and chomping at the bit to get on with my day by 5am, sometimes earlier. The dogs will come join me around 6am, the rest of the house.. 7, or 8am. Sometimes… like yesterday for instance, I’ll head out of doors as soon as the sun comes up and putter around our tiny 3/4 an acre yard. I’ll weed gardens while the leaves are still wet with morning dew, prune a tree branch I keep seeing in the more active part of the day when I’m in the middle of doing something else, or maybe just stroll around with my coffee in one hand and my camera in the other..
them apples
Published September 1, 2009 | 
Some people would never plant fruit trees in their yard because they hate the mess. For a couple weeks a year I totally get their point.
Today is the first day of school in this part of the world. The news is raging about a predicted up-swing in Swine Flu cases, hospitalizations and deaths because everyone is sending their kids to school, while reminding everyone to send their kids to school. Ah…?
Photo Challenge
Published December 19, 2008 | 
Explorers’ Corner is putting on an Adventure Photography contest with some great prizes. The best bit is they accept normal “real people” photos submitted by email. So why not send them your best shots? Click Here For Details. Just be quick as submissions are accepted from December 12th, 2008 to January 30th, 2009 and voting ends on February 2nd, 2009.
Be A Great Photographer
Published November 24, 2008 | 
South Stack, Wales
Yeah, that title would catch my eye too. For a couple reasons. First, I’m always wondering if there is some little tip I can pull quickly from an article or because nobody in their right mind should think they’re a great photographer. In the end there are certainly a few things you can do to learn to get better pictures but as Tim Shuff at Adventure Kayak pointed out in his last article, most of all you just have to be there. Continue reading
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