Winter Birding

It was warm earlier this weekend, but the temps have begun to slowly drop again, so Kieara and I got up early (for a Sunday), and took a drive down to a local lake this morning to see if there were any birds taking advantage of the good fishing weather.  We had hoped to capture Steve's earlier good fortune of seeing bald eagles, and did see an immature baldy, but he was just to skittish to pose for pictures, so I snapped the rest of the morning's show.

Most of these are taken with a 200mm manual telephoto, wide open at f2.8.  I brought a tripod but there was enough light out to snap these handheld.  Can't wait to get out there when the sun is creeping up, and the light is going to be really good coming off the water.  I've included some of Kieara's shots as well (after the photo of the lens).  As you can see she was snapping away as well.  She uses a Canon EOS 20D SLR with an autofocus 28-90mm zoom.  Click the pic to see the rest:

Christmas Bokeh

50mm prime manual lens, pretty much set wide open to f1.2 to get a bit of that seasonal bokeh blur working for us.  Get a few days off this week, so I hope I get to expand on the set.  Click the pic to see the rest.  Merry Christmas!

Early November - Mid-Afternoon



Ivy









Kale



Alaina





Top photo "smudged" in Photoshop, others with fill in flash on a cloudy November day.



Portlandia

Whirlwind family trip from California to Portland to Colorado by car.  Ton of photos, here are a few of my favorites (click the photo for the rest)

October Light



All photos taken with Panasonic Lumix automatic setting.

Fall Flowers

A bit of Rain and some flowers bloom.

Just a few fall pix

 Steve took this picture of the girls on their first day of school as 7th graders at Will Rogers Junior High.

Alaina and Velcro take a break from the last swim in the cool pool.

Jake says:  Look Ma, No Hands....

Nick is "Dead-Eye" accurate with the throwing knife.

Ivy and Pico at the Rocking C

 VELCRO

Tiny Daisy

the Deezy Do