It was a beautiful spring day today, with the sky blue and the water cool. Mother Goose and Father Goose are fiercely protecting their nest, and Mama Wren is still patiently awaiting her babies. A few stolen moments to sit on the dock to enjoy the light breeze […]
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. Ludwig Wittgenstein Canon 7d, 100-400mm f/4.0 L. Aperture Priority, Auto ISO, Daylight white balance, f/8.0. Edits in Lightroom […]
Came home to a brisk and windy spring day. But in the week that we were traveling, spring has officially arrived to the Chesapeake Bay. Last year, a Carolina Wren decided to take residence inside our gardening shed and in short order had a little family. This year, […]
Spring is fleeting rather quickly this year. With unseasonably warm temperatures this week finishing with a hard and heavy rain today, the trees are quickly transitioning from their muted pastels to green. Reminding me that life is fleeting as well. That each moment of each day is precious […]
One of the modules with the Nik Collection is HDR Efex Pro. Hearing good things about this module and how it can alter even just one image, I decided to finally give it a try. I ran into problems almost immediately as this module is treated and acts […]
Today was supposed to be a day of hiking. But the spring air called me and I ventured off to a Industrial wasteland, turned protected natural area at Swan Creek Wetlands. The wetlands is located next to the Port of Baltimore’s dredge area under the Francis Scott Key […]
Here is my attempts, part deaux, to work successfully with a light box and lighting to create those perfect white backgrounds. This time I properly set the camera’s white balance to 5500K which is the temperature of the bulbs I’m using. I realized that the room lighting was […]
Have you ever sat down with your camera and played with all the buttons. Some of these cameras offer fancy in-camera editing like my Canon 60D. These in-camera edits are available only when shooting .jpg images and not RAW. Here is my original image with some basic Lightroom […]
Money makes the world go around, the world go around. And when traveling inevitably some coins from those travels end up at the bottom of your pocket with nowhere to go but home as souvenirs. A few contributions from family members, I have an international conglomerate of lost […]
Part of being a nature lover and an animal owner is having to constantly keep up with the food supply. Between the wild birds, the big fat squirrels, the sassy cats and the frisky horses these creatures are starting to eat me out of house and home. So […]
Emily Carter ~ Nature as Art 