The Coming Cold

I figured I would just put some pictures of what I hope to see on the coming trip. Dave said coyotes would pretty abundant so this one seems to be a good picture for the time of year that we will be going.

If the elk are out that would be awesome. I do realize that this is probably a picture that was taken during the spring because that looks like a fairly young calf but elk would be very fun to see on this trip.

Depending on the roads, getting a picture like this would be awesome though if we get there at a time of day that a shot like this could be possible. It also doesn't have to be specifically old faithful because of all the water features in the park.








This would also be a great picture to get. Because of the snow falling it makes a sort of blur effect but the Hawk is still very clear.

looking at these pictures reminds me that the weather could be cold like in these shots or warm and sunny but to be prepared for this type of picture opportunities. These are all pictures that would be fun to use as models for my shots during this coming trip and I hope to get the opportunity for them and many others.

Recent Weather + Camera = Some Cool Picture Potential

So when we got the huge round of snow this past week I thought it would be an awesome time to take some pictures. I would have loved to have been somewhere else besides in town where there is always a building in a background somewhere but I did enjoy getting the chance to take pictures with the huge bright white flakes slowly falling from the sky like in some of these pictures.

So this is again a time I wish I had a tripod, but I feel like the result is good. If it were a little brighter it would have been nice cause my ISO is rather high which didn't help with the pixely look but you can't tell too much unless you zoom in a lot.

And this is the attempt to try and not get a building and obviously it didn't were too well and the large amount of sky kinda blew it out. I do still like the snow flakes in it though.

I love how the slightly melted snow left the perfect little water droplets on this rose that was just falling over and I tried to get the background just blurred enough and the only thing about the background I don't like is the little bit of the gravel mat you can see in the top right corner.

 Over all I am very proud of these pictures because I greatly enjoy water effects and stop motion stuff which the snow gave me a great subject to do both water and stop motion.

Red Dirt and Falling Rains

So this past weekend I went down to Wyoming for a family event and decided that I would get up too early on my weekend and climb one of the various hills around my grandparents ranch where we stayed and get some landscapes at sunrise.  So here are some of what I took. Many of them I would love to take and turn into HDR shots because the colors with the red hills and the green sage are amazing but the sky gets washed out when the light is high enough to get the detail. The inverse happens when I get the sky color correct and I had no filters.

The hill I was on was basically the end of a crest and I had a large area but I couldn't get a panorama to work right. It is also hard not to get man made things in the picture because it is a ranch so there's lots of farm terrain along with random constructions.

Overall I would say it was successful and I had a fun time climbing up cause it has become a tradition of mine to climb it whenever we visit.

I also took some shots this Wednesday when it was raining and snowing which turned out funny because no one understood why a 6'4 man had taken off his hoodie, was kneeling on the wet sidewalk, with said hoodie draped over his head. That is until they saw what I was looking at.

Getting the water effects on these leaves that were under the gutter was lots of fun and gave me a great chance to play better with shutter speed. Since the day was also so overcast the lighting was great but I do wish I had a polarizer. I love how the contrast works so well between the clear shiny leaves and the blurry ones getting poured on.