The above isn’t a picture I’d normally share outside of instagram. Seen from a distance at web resolution, it looks like a real nice photo. Seen properly, it’s obvious that the camera hit focus on the back leg rather than the face. Great pose, great light, bad photo. This photo isn’t focused on what’s important.Continue reading “Focus on What Matters”
Category Archives: Wildlife Photography
That For Which You Weren’t Looking
Buy a Print. I always carry my camera with me when I’m volunteering at the Denver Zoo. Usually, it’s for the animals who are part of the zoo. But when the morning light shines through a tree just right, a wild fox squirrel makes a pretty decent subject. The zoo is a pretty subject-rich environment.Continue reading “That For Which You Weren’t Looking”
The First Shot is Always the Best
Buy a print. If you’ve been shooting photos for even a brief amount of time, you probably remember the joy of seeing your first shot. Maybe you got a new DSLR or new lens and you remember the joy of the first shot you took with that new bit of equipment. Maybe you met aContinue reading “The First Shot is Always the Best”
Another Fun Day With Hawkquest
Support Raptor Conservation! Buy a print here! Last Saturday, Kin and his raptor conservation center at Hawk Quest partnered again with Mike’s Camera to offer up some beautiful photo opportunities with some incredible birds. The standout in my mind was the Aplomado Falcon; this is a bird that wasn’t even on my radar. But holyContinue reading “Another Fun Day With Hawkquest”
OneRoll – Ektachrome 100 (pushed) at HawkQuest
Note: If you want to hang any of the below images on your wall, you can purchase a print here. As with my other HawkQuest images, 20% of all proceeds from print sales will be donated to HawkQuest to support their mission of raptor rehabilitation and conservation. I wrote before about the event I participatedContinue reading “OneRoll – Ektachrome 100 (pushed) at HawkQuest”
Owls Owls Owls
Buy a print to support raptor conservation and rehabilitation. Today, I got to participate in an event with Mike’s Camera and HawkQuest. Master Falconer Kin Quitugua and several of the HawkQuest volunteers brought a number of owls out to Bear Creek Lake Park. It was incredible getting to work with these beauties up close, andContinue reading “Owls Owls Owls”
Going Medieval
Went to make some photos before work. The refuge is 10 minutes from my apartment and 10 minutes from work. Makes it a great place to go if I’m up a little earlier than I need to be. That is unless you get there to find that you’d be fighting the black death. Bit ofContinue reading “Going Medieval”
It’s a Frame Job
Buy a Print. Was driving through Arsenal, late evening, very overcast. Dark enough that we’re looking at f/2.8 at 8000 iso. I catch mama and bebe to my right through the passenger window. I turn around to get them on the good side. Mama knows what’s up; some looky-loo with a big lens wanting toContinue reading “It’s a Frame Job”
Twilight’s Last gleaming
Buy a Print. Had the plan to hit up Arsenal for sunset after an offsite meeting. It was pouring rain at the restaurant and was almost enough to make me call it and go home. Glad I didn’t. One of the first trees in had the unmistakable silhouette of a hawk perched upon it. TheContinue reading “Twilight’s Last gleaming”
One Roll – Delta 3200 July 2019
Ilford’s Delta 3200 is another film I’d not had a lot of experience with. Samples online showed a pretty distinct lack of contrast, likely owing to it really being somewhere in the neighborhood is ISO 1000, with a design toward push processing. To try to capture some of that contrast back, I shot at 1600.Continue reading “One Roll – Delta 3200 July 2019”
The Zootographer 