David’s Blog
Photograph a Forest
Forests are one of the very hardest environments for me to photograph. I have decades photographing in forests of all kinds on several continents but my struggles continue. The part that I struggle with is to try to make some sense out of the visual chaos that is characteristic of a natural forest. There are trees on the ground, trees going straight up,...
Oregon Coast Workshop review
Another Oregon Coast Workshop has come and gone and another 14 people introduced to my curse of bad sunsets. Oh, well- Brenda and I do the best we can and the weather Gods just don't cooperate. This is not to say that the participants didn't get some spectacular images. They did! Despite some heavy clouds and cold winds on several of the evening shooting...
Colorado flowers
It has been a magnificent year for wildflowers in the high country of Colorado. I haven't been photographing much but I have been spending a lot of time hiking through the beautiful meadows. Most of my time has been between 8000 and 9500 feet elevation where the aspen meadows and wildflowers are magnificent. Here is a shot of one of my favorite...
ISO test
Well, I've done it again and I've gotten another camera - the little Nikon Coolpix A. One of the main reasons I got it was that it has the largest sensor of any of the small, compact cameras. The sensor is the same sensor that is in the adult-sized Nikon DSLR Dx cameras (the ones with the 1.5 crop factor). But I am not going to write about the...
The Equipment Conumdrum
Here is something all photographers have in common- the desire for ever better, ever newer, ever ever camera gear. Whether young or old or ancient, good, great or god awful, outdoor, indoor or sliding door we all crave better stuff whether we actually need it or not. Need has nothing to do with these desires actually. Need implies practicality and a...
Forgotten Summer Fields
This is a terrible time of the year to be a sports fan- basketball season is over, football hasn't started yet, baseball is in the dog days of summer, golf is, well...golf and hockey (Wait, did hockey have a season this year? Are they still playing? Did anyone notice?) is just too tedious to pay attention to. Professional hockey is like taking your sister...
More Playing!
So I've been playing with my new little camera some more. Just wandering around my house and the local environs trying to get to know what the camera can and can't do. This is important to do with a new camera so when something important comes along to photograph I won't be disappointed if I try to do something photographically that my camera doesn't do so...
3 Degrees of Seperation
This is how things happen to me and quite regularly it turns out. I find it wonderful. So wonderful that I thought I'd share the story. One of my all time favorite movies is The Legend of Bagger Vance, directed by Robert Redford and starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron and Jack Lemon. It is ostensively a golf movie but it is in fact a movie...
A Cloud Story for you
I walked into the barn the other day and Rob, Roger's youngest son, was standing in the center aisle waiting for a cow to finish being milked. Rob is here full time now and he often takes over the morning milking allowing Roger to do other, long put off jobs. "Rob, I have a question for you." "Yes sir?" Rob is ex-military so just to annoy me he acts all...
Wish you were here!
More on my little friend
Here is the update on my thoughts on my new little Nikon J3 camera. I used it last week while I was in Tofino, carrying it around in my pocket or in a small fanny pack (how do you carry these little cameras and three lenses around easily? I have have three polarizing filters, extra battery, etc. How can a camera that is so small take up so much...