That is right! I traded for a younger one again ;-)
Washougal Motocross Park
We went up to the motocross races at Washougal, Washington yesterday. I learned that if you think shooting drag racing is tough you haven’t seen anything until you try to shoot motocross!! It is a case of pre-focus and hold the button down as they come into the zone and you take a LOT of shots. I rattled off over 750 with the new 7D yesterday. I’ll be happy to get a couple of dozen keepers and at that they will be mostly record shots.
That said, it was a heck of a lot of fun. We had a great time with old friends.
(click the thumbnails for larger images)
Working With The Seeds
The four images in this series are all from the same plant at different stages. All are stacked images using Magic Lantern and Zerene Stacker. There is also some HDR work involved in them. It will be the last of these for the year. On to other things. Clicking on the image will get you…
Woodburn Drag Strip
We spent the day at Woodburn Dragstrip as guests of RAM Trucking and Brian Hough Racing. It was a chance to give the new Canon 7D a trial run at the races. I will say that I am impressed and it is a keeper.
Young Rufous at a Feeder
I don’t normally post hummingbird photos with a feeder in the shot but I like this series as a study in the wing movements. This young Rufous was visiting our campsite at Clear Lake over the 4th of July
PhotoZone Juried Show 2013
I have done pretty well in past years at the PhotoZone show. I was forced to skip it last year as I was in Chicago but I am back this year with three images. I should know early in the week how many of them, if any, make the cut. I entered the images below….
Our Guard Bird
This male Anna’s Hummingbird has taken up sentry duty at our front door. There is a feeder there and he has a pair of hiding places where he sits in wait of other hummingbirds headed into “his” feeder.
Milking the Milkweed Seeds
Getting all that I could out of this before all of the seeds fall off. This setup has been out on the bench for a week or better. Finally shot it today. 5D MK II, Canon 100mm F2.8 Macro. F6.3 @ 1/8 second. 79 images stacked in Zerene Stacker for depth of field. Final B/W done…
Flash Bar
Version II of the Flash Bar. I think I am close to getting what I wanted out of it. There is still a lot of tweaking that can be done as far as color. This is a total on 119 images. 17 focus layers with 7 exposures in each. (click for large view)
Feather Detail
On a visit to the craft store the other day I ran across this feather accent. It started yelling “Take me home!” so I just had to get it out of that store. It gave me something to shoot on a rainy morning. These are pretty close to 1:1 macro. Full frame sensor and a…