Birds Landscapes Sightings Wildlife
May 04, 2021

May 04, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 6:55 PM Temperature: 62 degrees Sky: Sunshine, clouds with light breeze An ugly morning led to a late afternoon outing at Lake Pueblo State Park. Though the bird activity was less than frantic I managed to get the best look at the little Great Horned Owlet so far – today’s featured image. I think he is outgrowing the nest. After that there was not many birds looking to be photographed. Since the Sun was going down I headed up to the top of the Lake Pueblo Dam and tried a few sunset scenic views. One of those (better…

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Birds Sightings Wildlife
April 03, 2021

April 03, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 9:00 AM Temperature: 54 degrees Sky: Sunny with few clouds; light breeze Weather predictions of a warm day ahead got me motivated and out the door earlier than usual. Of course, as things start to really heat up I’ll be hitting the trail even earlier than today. I was certainly not the first visitor of the day but attendance was still light. My walk was pretty unremarkable in terms of photography though I managed to capture a “new” bird – a Rufous-sided Towhee – today’s featured image. I almost didn’t even bother shooting him because he was bouncing…

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Landscapes Sightings
April 01, 2021

April 01, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 6:15 PM Temperature: 58 degrees Sky: Sunny with few clouds; light breeze Since Last evening’s outing was so successful I decided to try it again. I did see a good number of birds but none were anywhere near enough to get a useful image. I thought I had spotted a Starling nest last evening but I was not able to relocate it. The Heron nest that was so entertaining last night was completely abandoned. So I was disappointed as I neared the end of my normal route and decided to turn off my camera and just enjoy the…

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Landscapes Sightings
March 09, 2021

March 09, 2021

Environment:Start Time: 10:25 AM Temperature: 58 degrees Sky: Mix of Sun and clouds, light breeze Spring-like weather is persisting and will so for most of the week ahead. Local weather forecasters are promising us a snowy Saturday. Not at all unusual weather for March in Southeastern Colorado. Birds are still playing hard to get but activity is picking up. I could hear a number of unfamiliar bird calls and a couple of recognizable (by me) ones. There were Blue Jays about to be sure. I also heard a Belted Kingfisher. Aside from using my zoom lens to ID some of…

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Birds Sightings Wildlife
December 09, 2020

December 09, 2020

Environment:Start Time: 12:55 PM Temperature: 60 degrees Sky: Sunny, no clouds, no breeze Today’s outing started off on a super HIGH note! Out of force of habit I checked out the Osprey nest near the swim area as I drove into Lake Pueblo State Park. These days I don’t know what I’m looking for since all the Osprey have headed South. But the nest was not empty! There were three large birds sitting in and around the nest. I parked as close as I could to the nest and got over there as fast as possible. When I arrived on…

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Landscapes Sightings
December 07, 2020

December 07, 2020

Environment:Start Time: 10:45 AM Temperature: 46 degrees Sky: Sunny, no clouds, no breeze This morning I decided to forgo my normal hike in the Rock Canyon area at Lake Pueblo State Park and go, instead, a little further out to the Wildlife Area that is just West of Lake Pueblo. My thinking was that there might be a different variety of birds out in this less peopled landscape. Because I was going to this alternate area I decided to try using a vintage Minolta 200 mm MC Tele Rokkor lens. I figured that any birds I found (really hoping for…

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Landscapes Sightings
December 06, 2020

December 06, 2020

Environment:Start Time:10:40 AM Temperature: 53 degrees Sky: Sunny, no clouds, no breeze I tried changing things up this morning – heading out the door with my vintage Olympus Zuiko 14-54 mm lens attached to my new Lumix GH4 camera. The light over the last couple of days has been amazing so I decided to try some late Autumn “scenic” photography. Even though the major color has faded to a memory, the now mostly bare trees have a certain majesty as they prepare to stand against the fast approaching Winter. Today’s featured image and the one posted below are examples of…

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Birds Critters Sightings Wildlife
October 09, 2020

October 09, 2020

Environment:Start Time: 7:45 AM Temperature: 60 degrees Sky: Sunshine, high clouds, light breeze Today I was back on the prowl for birds and wildlife. I really am hoping to run across a Tarantula somewhere on or near the trail but so far nothing. Kind of hard to see them when you are constantly looking into the trees I have to admit. As far as other critters go I got a nice postcard style shot of a group of Mule Deer grazing in the morning sun (today’s featured image.) On the birding front I struck gold when I saw an Osprey…

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Landscapes Sightings
October 08, 2020

October 08, 2020

Environment:Start Time: 7:45 AM Temperature: 52 degrees Sky: Hazy sunshine, light breeze With Autumn showing it’s colors more and more at Lake Pueblo State Park I decided to put my vintage Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm zoom (a lens I have still not written up in this blog) on the Panasonic GX-85 and went looking for scenery. Once I got looking around I decided that maybe I was jumping the gun a little since there is still much that is green on my normal route. But I did manage some color – mostly thanks to the early morning low angled light cutting…

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Infrared Photography Landscapes Process Software
The Hidden Beauty of

The Hidden Beauty of

Infrared Photography For reasons truly unknown to me, I recently decided to begin exploring the mysteries of infrared photography. I think I bumbled onto the topic while searching on YouTube for something else entirely. Fifty plus years ago, when I first got started taking pictures, infrared photography was a very exotic medium requiring special (expensive) film and extra fussing to achieve proper focus. Now in the digital age of photography…… it’s still expensive but in a different way. Now you need to acquire a modified digital camera that can “see” the infrared spectrum. The images you capture need to be…

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