27 February 2007

Can't see the forest for the trees

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Sorry about the long silence. I was away for a few days without access to my computer, and this week I seem to have hit one of those bottlen...
17 February 2007

Working in Black & White

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I don't often shoot in black & white, but there are certain subjects which I enjoy exploring mono­chromatically -- specifically thos...
15 February 2007

Beauty in Decay

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This is a photo of the old Farnham Mill in Cheshire, Massachu­setts, built circa 1885. A lot of New England towns were mill towns, and the s...
11 February 2007

Gannet domestic violence

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Now you see the real reason why gannets build their nests just beyond pecking distance from each other! This one seemed a bit angry that its...
09 February 2007

More gannets, and still more gannets!

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Austral­asian gannets space their nests evenly apart, just beyond pecking distance from one another. It was quite a sight to behold -- hundr...
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05 February 2007

Watery flower

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That title reminds me of the ever-changing anagram sign in the Fawlty Towers TV series. You gotta see it. Anyway, I never did get a satisfa...
02 February 2007

Gannet in flight

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I'm waiting for the ID of another New Zealand flower photo I wanted to post tonight, so instead I'll go back to gannets. I will let ...
01 February 2007

A rose by any other name...still has aphids

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Click on the photo to view the full-size version so you can see the little critter below the largest drop of water near the center of the ph...
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27 January 2007

Black swans with cygnets

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Another in the New Zealand series. I'd never seen a black swan before, but they were all over the place on the lakes in the Rotorua area...
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25 January 2007

Peek-a-baa!

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Back to the New Zealand series after a couple of important interrup­tions. I was taking a walk around the grounds before a farm show started...
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23 January 2007

Unethical photos

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Paul Butzi has an interesting post over at Photo Musings on when not to take a photo -- when it would involve illegal trespassing, when s...
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Panoramania!

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Small detour from the New Zealand series, as I just have to share something fun with you today. I recently purchased a really cool program c...
22 January 2007

Cymbidium Orchid: Keeping Notes and Trade-Offs

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People are enjoying my New Zealand series, so I'm going to continue with it for a while. I saw this orchid at Hamilton Gardens , in the ...
19 January 2007

Another New Zealand bird

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This one is a mallard, common throughout the world, not a particularly unique New Zealand species like so many of the ones I saw down there....
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17 January 2007

"The one without the gannet"

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Here's another of my photos from New Zealand, an Austral­asian Gannet (Maori: takapu ) coming in for a landing at the gannet colony at M...
15 January 2007

New beginnings

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I'm a little behind on editing my recent work, so today I'm going to post what is one of my all-time favorite photos, of a tree fern...
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14 January 2007

Mining of Art

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In a previous post , I was talking about why I don't delete any photos on camera anymore. I recently came across a series of three excel...
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10 January 2007

Painting with Light #4

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07 January 2007

Palm Pilot Photography

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My dad recently sent me this amazing photo he had taken on his 1.2 megapixel Palm Pilot. It's called Wild Acres Marsh. Click on the imag...
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06 January 2007

Art as a Verb

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Paul Butzi has a great post over at Photo Musings on "art as a verb." He writes: I think the vast majority of artists are better...