Tag Archives: dslr

White-crowned Sparrow: a short video

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

A bit of editing to do yet, before I can post the video of the Long-tailed Weasel, so I thought I would share a short video I was able to shoot while watching the weasels, of a male White-crowned Sparrow. … Continue reading →

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Product Review: Zacuto Z-Finder Pro 3x

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

As digital SLRs become better and better suited for high quality video shooting, the market has been filling with more and more products to facilitate the process. One thing manny of us stills photographers have to come to grips with … Continue reading →

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Punchpad to give away a Canon 5d MkII

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Just a heads up to all the folks out there. It looks like Punchpad and MCP Actions are teaming up to give away a new Canon 5d mkII or a Nikon d700 on February 19th. You don’t have to buy … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a photo #49: Green Heron at Hog Island Oysters

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

Sometimes we are involved doing one thing, when something different comes along and we completely change our focus. I’d been taking some pictures of a happening for the local paper, when I saw a bird I had never noticed before. … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a photo #47: Mt Tam from Mt Vision

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

Early morning. What a wonderful magical time of day. I’ve heard that from a scientific point of view the range of sunrise colors is equal to sunset, and that one is simply the other in reverse, but from an emotional … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a photo #46: Young Raccoons on the rocks

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Early morning, extra low tide, the long days of summer… Put them tgether, and it’s the perfect time to find and photograph raccoons as they search for crabs and tidbits by the first light of the day. The other time … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a photo #45: Wild rose with dewdrops

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

Flowers are wonderful subjects for photography. In a short space and time they will go through many shapes and forms- the plant iitself, the bud, flowers, and the seed head or pod (or in the case of roses the hip). … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a photo (series): #44 Octopus event on Tomales Bay (the days before Hawktopus)

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

The other day I was speaking with someone that had seen my Hawktopus post (the Red-tailed Hawk that I was able to photograph as it flew with an octopus) and while they were very enthusiastic about it, they chided me once they … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a photo #40: A season of thistles

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

They are a weed. Their spiky heads can leave a child wailing and an adult cursing. They are often a blight, an eyesore, something to be dealt with or avoided. They also can have their own beauty and intricacies, if … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a photo #36: Surfer and the Bridge

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

I have no idea how often you can find people surfing under the Golden Gate Bridge. In fact, I hadn’t planned on photographing surfers at all on this day, only the Bridge itself by the early mor ing light, but … Continue reading →

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How to photograph fireworks

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

It’s actually pretty easy to get the technical parts right, when taking pictures of fireworks, which means the important part is to think ahead and decide where you want to be in relation to the firework display, and what else … Continue reading →

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Baby Blue Bird: Anatomy of a photo #33

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

There are times, when many of the lessons we’ve learned be damned, we see something so exciting or new to us, that the most important thing is to get a picture, any picture at all. That’s nearly what happened to … Continue reading →

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