Forum: Nature

What type of light do you recommend for light painting buildings, large objects? Lot of people recommending the Brinkmann Q-beam spot light. I have looked at it and the internal rechargeable battery fails often. Do you have any recommendation? Thank so much!

I wee little baby frog hopping around our lawn.

Here's a picture of my little hiking partner, she's a 1 1/2 year minature Dachshund, so full of energy and keeps up with me even with those little legs.

Just a lil encouragement for you folks that have had Winter Cabin Fever! Photographed this Morning down in my backyard....Plum Tree. Which I might add is at least a week early for Booms here in Upstate NY. The Male House Finch is starting to look all pretty for His future Lady! :D

The Butterfly Place in Westford, MA has been rebuilt. I It is planning on reopening Sunday the 21st of March. Glad to have it back. Here's a link to the local paper's announcement: http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_14677797 Enjoy.

I took these all playing around with the new Sigma 150-500mm.... pretty good lens, I'm liking it so far...

my tree spirit visits with me at lunch time and only on sunny days! I seem to be the only person at my place of employment to see him ~ so, I took his picture and put this as my desktop background on my work computer... and one guy still didn't see him! gah.

I was going through some shots from the beginning of the season and found a day I didnt do any processing.... so heres a couple from that day at 5-Rivers...

OK, I couldn't wait to try out the new 40D. So what do I shoot at night? The moon of course! I broke out the Celestron Super C8+ telescope (2,000mm focal length, f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope) and got a couple shots using Live View (I'm really going to love that feature!) This is exactly...

Out of probably 100 shots I got these few good ones. Its like shooting skeet.

Here is a sunset shot from this evening. I am loving the ISO50 capability. Looking at the original size and the 100% crops, it is super smooth. Original 14MP image here: http://brittonx.smugmug.com/gallery/4805506_8rJ7f#313249527_sTKie-O-LB Here is a 100% crop of the 14MP image

I took a drive up to Hope Falls, just outside Northville looking to shoot the waterfalls. I got a little side tracked by the salamander. I reached into the bag, grabbed the macro, and .... the poor thing.... he got hit by the paparazzi!

I was all over the Adirondacks this weekend. I drove up to Lake Placid on the Northway I 87, and then took the scenic route back home via Rte 30 through the Adirondacks. I see alot of posts from that area, so for those of you who are familiar with that area know about the beautiful wilderness...

Since I'm new here, I don't know how meet ups are organized, ie... who can organize them etc... However, I just got back yesterday from being out in the Adirondacks... Anyone ever been to Middle Lake up in Benson? It's a pretty good warm up hike for the season. It gets you kind of conditioned...

I did a little reprocessing on a few of my favorites from last year... C&C welcome!! I'm starting to really get spring fever! I can't wait to get out and get some real nature and macro shooting in... all this house hunting is really putting a cramp in my FREE TIME lol

Hello, everyone... I'm a beginner here, but here's my first offering of the Taconic Crest along Rt 2 in Eastern NY...

C&C Welcome Signs of Spring Smooth Texture

Thank you for looking. As always comment and critique are welcome Most of these shots were taken with a circular polarizer on the DP1 Getting Started Surreal Spring

Here are some pictures I took at Plum Island today.