fred_j._lord

I've always liked this image of yours and said so months ago. Congratulations and sympathy are in order here. Give me a call in Frisco. We still need to do another shoot.

She held this pose for 4-5 seconds. Luckily the camera was available.

I was born in Alva, OK but perhaps we had too few trees there to see such autumn brilliance or perhaps I was just too young to notice.

 

My only suggestion would be to look at cropping the left just a bit to move the duck and the reflection a bit more off center. Other than that, it's a well caught image.

It's a well considered suggestion. Thank you. I'm leaving in the morning for a five day photo expedition. I hope something comes of it.

I didn't have to worry about the autofocus as I was using the teleconvertor which disables it on the D60.

 

We're leaving for Monte Vista and Bosqué del Apache on Friday so I get to try these and other birds again. There should be a lot of juveniles since they are returning from their nesting grounds in the far north.

 

This fellow became very used to me and finally coaxed his shy mate to come out into the field. Here he was sort of trying to decide if I was a threat. I'm not, of course, a threat to anyone or anything like these creatures.

I like them both for different reasons. It would depend what I was doing with it. Only thing is the thin vertical black line on the lower left half of the cropped version. It sort of attracts the eye without justification.

I thought someone should start the "C" word in this new venue so there it is. The clouds and the blue sky pastels backing up the progressively lighter silhouettes is truly fine. Lovely work.

It's so difficult to work in darkness and manage focus and timing while using on camera flash. The man is very noble looking and the mood of the image is well caught. The colors and the pose are very nice as well.

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that there should always be a foreground just to anchor the image. This is a very nice capture of a difficult subject with the horizon giving a nice sense of scale to the immensity of nature's power.

I'm rating on the basis of the PS image. As I've said, ImageReady does a really nice job of previewing images so you can make it look the way it should on the web.

 

It's a really nice image but Jim isn't going to like the tree at the lower right.

Aspens are losing their leaves now. Too bad. It's been a gorgeous week.

I could have tried it with the tripod but it didn't occur to me in this case. I guess I'm only conditioned to try long exposures in low light and on small streams. Next time I will at least consider it before making a quick snap.

Wow, now that's what I call a fire hose! Did the city water pressure drop while this fire was being fought? Nice reportorial work, Jim. The shapes and colors are quite striking.

The deer were grazing on the succulent hay fields and escaping the hunters as well. My wife just thought this one was a bit thin looking. Perhaps she had just found the ranch and hadn't settled in yet. She was, as much as we could tell, alone. The next nearest doe was about 500 yards away.

In this case, however, I stood on the Spring Creek Road bridge over the Blue River. It would have been nice to have a shadow over the sagebrush meadow behind the trees but there were hardly any clouds that day. The shadow over the river is cast by the bluff next to it and not by clouds.

I, on the other hand, did break a sweat.

 

As to the trees, yes, they do run into them a lot. I witnessed one such collision a few years ago. No one saw it but my wife and I so we started screaming from our perch on the lift and finally got someone's attention. We have no idea what happened after that as we were on our way up and when we went down it was to another base area.

I wasn't really looking at this one for a long exposure since the light was so bright on the trees in the background. I reckon I'll have to get an ND1.2 so I can do more of those.

He could also be whittled away. I really like the smoke and blue haze from the left while the firemen jump out at us from the right. The low light source from the right is very nice as well. Good work, Jim.

Another lovely fall evening in Summit County.

It's a wonderful capture and if the magenta really did bother you it would be gone. Truly fine composition allied with spectacular color. Bravo!

This area is private land and no hunting is allowed until you've driven several miles farther into public lands. This doe and

about two dozen other clever mule deer never leave the ranch during hunting season. Smart girl, smart deer!

We about killed ourselves hiking to the fop of this ski run. I would say about 800 ft. of very steep vertical at about 8-9,000

feet of elevation. My wife and I made it in 35 minutes which, for us, is fast. This particular image was made about two-thirds

of the way back down from the summit.

I think it needed it. It's just a bit blue/cyan from the sky light reflections. Otherwise, it's a lovely study in nature's shapes and colors.

Nice work, Jay. How do you find the 10D? I'm waiting for the 1Dx if it exists. Otherwise I may have to get a 1D with the old D60 serving as a backup. Once again, a fantastic and beautiful image.

Another simple, effective, translucently moody image from Regina. Any suggestions would just be nitpicking. It's lovely and another fine example of the "C" word.