Wyoming in July

The girls and I spent a week in Wyoming with our friends Grace and Marcia.  We saw bears (grizzly and black), bison, elk, deer, coyote, fox, marmot, picka-pen, chipmunks, rabbit, swan, geese, and antelope but no moose or wolves.  The weather was beautiful and cool (very compared to OK) and we saw geothermal features in Yellowstone (Old Faithful and Grand - now we are official Gyser Gazers), caught rainbow trout in Windy Lake, hiked to Spooky Cave, counted wildflowers, hunted petroglyphs, rode the Absokora hills, and followed smoke to a forrest fire up Horse Creek Canyon. 

Oh, and we took a few photos.

Wonderful Wyoming.

More Wyoming Pix

Aliens Among Us

It's been awful hot outdoors the past month or so and difficult to spend much time there on purpose, but poking around in the flora you might come across some interesting fauna. Here are a couple of examples.

These critters were captured outdoors and brought into the "studio" for photographing. The caterpillar (Hyalophora cecropia) was slow enough to get proper light and focus with little effort but the mantis required a 15 minute stay in the fridge to slow him down. Both bugs were shot under fluorescent light with a digital Canon EOS xs equipped with Mamya 45mm lens and eos adapter and extension rings at f22 and various slow shutter speeds. Everything was done through eos utility and xp laptop. After processing: Photoshop Elements 6.
 Both bugs were released alive.

Milestone Daze

I can't believe it happened almost a month ago, but Kieara graduated from George Washington Univ. in D.C. and I'm finally getting around to organizing a few snaps.  Here are a few images from our time in D.C. and then the rendevous at our house back in N.C.  The sweet little Canon 50mm f/1.2 lens was awesome.  As you can tell I'm still tinkering with manual focus, but starting to get a feel for it and really enjoying the process.

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Storm King Art Center

 

1 Sunday afternoon
500 acre sculpture garden in Upstate New York
A Sack Lunch
1 Cannon DSLR Camera (minus) the memory card = all pictures taken on the I Phone 4 using the Hipstamatic Photo Application

North Carolina Weekend

Race fan appreciation day at the local Orange County Speedway.  $20 bucks covers all you can load up in your car.  Wild races, thundering sounds, and pit crew fights, major fun!  Was also a chance to try out my replacement lens an 1980's cannon 50mm f/1.2
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Summer Light

Jaime

Still a part of us - we miss you.