Three Sisters Panorama

This is my first panorama.  It is also HDR.  Look at the bigger picture by expanding your browser and following this link.  I shot it with the Nikon 200-400mm f/4 lens at sunrise at the scenic viewpoint on Highway 20 between Sisters and Bend, Oregon.  The mountains are called the Three Sisters and Broken Top [...]

Pathway Through the Woods

This is a pathway through the woods of Chip Ross park in Corvallis, Oregon.  It was a lovely, brisk morning.  The fog was starting to lift and everything was peaceful and quiet.  I took pictures of this path with both my Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G lens at 14mm and 24mm and I took pictures of it [...]

Lava River Cave

While we were vacationing at Sunriver, Oregon we went to the Lava River Cave.  My mom, my two kids and I went down this cave that is a lava tube.  It took about an hour and a half to walk to the end of the tunnel and back.  The average temperature is 42° F.  The [...]

Night Sky

I just got back from Sunriver, which is a beautiful place to relax.  It’s a nice vacation community with lots of bike and walking paths, houses that are spaced out from each other, and deer and coyotes moving through it.  It is very relaxing to be there and it was a great way to spend [...]

Red-Yellow Tulip

I took this in April at the Woodburn Tulip Festival.  I was using a macro lens – Nikon 105mm f/2.8 AF-S Micro VR.  The aperture is set to f/3.2 and the shutter is 1/8000 second.  I was playing with depth of field but didn’t realize that being close to an object intensifies the effect that [...]

Great Blue Heron, Portrait

I took this photo in May at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge.  I posted the original photo without cropping it in my Great Blue Heron post.  I also posted the photo to the Nature Photographers’ Network and the people there suggested that I crop the photo down to make it a portrait and highlight [...]

Indoor Flower

I forget the name of this flower.  Does anyone know?  I was playing with depth of field on a macro lens that I had rented from Pro Photo Supply in Portland.  The lens I rented was the Nikon 105mm f/2.8 AF-S Micro VR.   For this photo, I had the aperture set at f/3.2, which was [...]

On Watch

I took this picture while on a birding walk with the Portland Audubon Society.  I was using a Nikon 600mm f/4 AF-S II lens.  I did not bring my tripod with me because it was a walk and it was very difficult to shoot with this very heavy lens handheld.  It was difficult to get [...]

Kingfisher with Lunch

I just read Trey Ratcliff’s new eBook – Composing the Photo: Creating Order from Chaos – Bonus Edition.  It full of great information.  I hope that it will help me understand why some of my photos are so much more popular than the others.  I need to reread it to soak up all the information.

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Tulip with Bee

I took this at the Woodburn Tulip Festival in April.  I was using a macro lens that I rented from Pro Photo Supply, the Nikon 105mm f/2.8 AF-S Micro VR.  The aperture for this image was f/3.2 which was the lowest setting for the given lighting conditions and shutter speeds.  I didn’t realize how small [...]