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Couple landscape photos with my Nikon D500
Didn’t do any serious shooting this trip. Weather kinda sucked and left my good glass at home. Shot these with my Nikon D500 and my 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6. It’s just a gut feeling, but I think my D750 has better dynamic range and is better suited for landscapes. Still, the D500 is no slouch.
Lake Arrowhead birds
Took some shots of ducks, egrets and cormorants down at Grass Valley Lake. Set up some bird seed and zip-tied a dead branch to my deck railing and got some nice shots of Stellar Jays, woodpeckers and even a Northern Flicker. The birds didn’t seem to care it was a set up ;-)
Wildlife shooting with the Nikon P900 (and D750)
I had trip planned to Lake Arrowhead, CA. and wanted something fun to play with. I decided on the Nikon Coolpix P900. Ever since its announcement last year, I’ve been more than a little intrigued by this bad boy with its effective 2000mm focal length zoom. My hesitation up til now stemmed from the fact …
My girl
Nothing much to do today, so I went back and re-processed some photos and what better subject than my girl.
Taylor the Spartan
I accompanied my daughter, Taylor, to the Austin Spartan race. Lugged my gear and took some shots. Wasn’t really possible to take photos while she was running unfortunately. Poor thing got dehydrated, but toughed it out and finished the race! Very proud of her.
Snowscapes
Spent a week at my home in Lake Arrowhead, CA and enjoyed a brief snow storm while I was there. It was absolutely beautiful! Here are a couple nice shots I got.
Some old family photos
Bought my parents a WiFi digital photo frame for Christmas and just uploaded some old photos that were transferred from slides. Tried to fix colors, scratches, noise, dust, etc., but didn’t spend the amount of time each photo probably deserved. I’ll save that for another day. Anyways, here they are.
Holiday trip to Cali!
Took two weeks off for Christmas and New Years. My gf was only able to take one week, but we made the most of it. We had the entire family gathered for Christmas: Mom and Dad, all five kids with significant others, and amazingly all 11 grandkids! It was a special evening for sure. I …
The Nani and Scoobie show, Dec 13, 2015
Been dying to take my 70-200 f/2.8 out for a spin and decided to just take the dogs out in the backyard. Was hoping to get some panned shots of one of them in full stride, but sadly neither the sun nor the dogs were very cooperative. In any event, the lens is spectacular albeit a …