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Image of the week #27

July 8, 2012 by admin | Comments Off

Some cypress leaves at the Fullerton Arboretum. Taken with a Fuji X-Pro 1, 60mm macro lens, f2.4 and 1/280, ISO 200. Took me awhile to get a decent shot of the hanging leaves there was light breeze so they kept swinging around. Enjoy.

Image of the week #26

July 1, 2012 by admin | Comments Off

Hard to believe half the year has gone by, I guess that is the sign of getting older, time flies! Here is this week’s image, it was more an experiment but I like how it came out. I got an adapter for my Fuji X-Pro 1 to use my Canon lenses, so this is taken near Temecula with the X-Pro 1 and a Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens, taken at f2.8 and a 30 second exposure at ISO1600. I thought it turned out pretty well, the yellowish glow in the bottom right is the light pollution dome from San Diego. The summer Milky Way always a neat thing to see. Enjoy.

 

Image of the week #25

June 24, 2012 by admin | Comments Off

Roaming around the garden I found these and the light was nice in the late afternoon. Taken with the Fuji X-Pro 1, 60mm lens at f5.4 and 1/4000 exposure. Sometimes it is fun just to walk around the garden and see what you can find, you never now what you may find. Enjoy.

 

Venus Transit

June 5, 2012 by admin | Comments Off

Here are some images from the Venus transit, which occurred on June 5, 2012. These were taken from Santa Ana, CA on the top level of a parking structure. I used my Canon 1D M4 with a 100-400mm at 400mm and a 1.4x which gave me a focal length of  560mm, these are crops of the image, taken using a solar filter. You can see several sunspots in addition to Venus as it moved across the face of the sun. These were taken over a period of about 3 hours. Hope you enjoy them, click on the images to see larger versions.

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Image of the week #17

April 30, 2012 by admin | Comments Off

Spring is a fun time of year, here in L.A. it can mean anything from hot spells, to rain, to grey overcast skies, and this year it was a little strange. First we got hardly any rain during our normal rainy season and had heat instead, the lack of rain and heat really messed up the normal wildflower prospects. So you have to wonder to other places to find some flowers. This weeks image is from the Huntington Library gardens. They have a very nice cactus section and a lot of them were in the processing of blooming.  This weeks image was also taken with my new camera, the Fuji X-Pro 1. I really like this new camera, a very nice and compact, well at least more compact than the dslr I normally use. Great optics, great image quality and all packaged in an interesting retro kind of case. A nostalgic trip back to rangefinder type cameras, although not a rangefinder per se, the handling is very similar. Great camera. Since Adobe has not released the raw file processing ability I have been using the in camera jpgs and it is capable of generating great images. This weeks image was taken with the Fuji 35mm f1.4 lens and using the Velvia film simulation mode. I bracketed the exposure and blending the files using exposure fusion. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Image of the week #12

March 26, 2012 by admin | Comments Off

This week’s image was one I took back in May of 2011, but I have since learned some new skills in editing and I think it has made some improvements to the image. This was taken near Page, Arizona, some nice sandstone sculpted by wind and rain, taken with a Canon 5Dm2 and a Zeiss 21mm lens. I really like the 3d effect, this was just an awesome day to be out doing some photography. Enjoy.

Image of the week #9

March 5, 2012 by admin | Comments Off

This week’s image is of almond blossoms. This is the time of year for the trees get pollinated and they flower before getting leaves. The owners had lots of bee hives everywhere, the bees buzzing around constantly. They rely on the bees and so so they rent hives to pollinate the crop. Taken handheld with a Zeiss 35mm f2 at f11. Location was near the town of Arvin, CA.

 

Image of the week #1

January 8, 2012 by admin | 1 Comment

This year I have decided that I need to get out and shoot more. So I decided to do a photo of the week. My goal is to post a decent picture every week that I am able. So here is my first weeks picture. This is a Cooper’s Hawk and was taken from my back yard, near my bird feeder. They prey on small birds, he was perched in an elm tree about 20 feet or so from my bird feeder. Taken with a 500mm f4 lens handheld on a Canon 1D IV.  This was taken from the back deck so there was not a lot of room to find a good shot but I managed to find without any trees or limbs in the way. He is resting on one foot and the other is being held up. The bird is looking towards the feeder. My feeder is generally very active, I have large flocks of house finches, goldfinches, and nutmeg mannikins that come by on a regular basis. During the winter I will also get lot of white crowned sparrows pecking around the feeder and I do get a California towhee on a regular basis. So plenty to interest the hawk.