Author: Mike VanDeWalker

Waiting is no fun –

I really don’t like waiting for things that I order online. I ordered a Rokinon 8mm Fisheye lens and it is now the weekend and the lens is sitting 100 miles away in Portland at UPS. I want it to play with! That is alright. I can wait. Really I can. I think this will…

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The Green Is Gone

I noticed this leaf laying under the holly tree in the back yard and couldn’t pass up shooting it. This is actually eight frames stacked to get the sharpness I wanted using the macro lens. (Clicking on the image will give you a large version.)  

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Spring in black and white

I have been told that it is sacrilegious to convert a daffodil to black and white because of the great yellows representing Spring. Oh well ~ Click for the large image.

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Ghosts In The Night

I needed some images for a theme in our photography club competition and had been going  to get out for weeks to shoot these. While the reflections would have been better in the street if it had been raining I just haven’t been in the mood to play outdoors at night in the rain. Exposure…

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Poinsettia Leafs

There is some really interesting texture and structure in wilting poinsettia leafs.

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Picture window for kitchen

A project I have been going to do for a long time is to add a “picture window” to a wall in my kitchen. The wall is at the end of the table and is actually the wall with the garage on the other side of it. It was obvious, even to me, that just knocking a…

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January 2013 Digital Entries at Emerald Photographic Society.

My three entries for January 2013.    

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City Fox

I had a fox running around in the back yard today. That is a first in the 23 years I have been in this house.

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Best of 2012 – Stills

2012 seemed to be the year of shooting table top and still images for me.

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Doomsday Hawk

The Coopers Hawk spent about an hour preening on doomsday and I was lucky enough to get to watch and get images. —

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