Tired of puppies yet?

Let me know when I am done posting puppy photos. (Or when you are done looking at them.) It has been a year sense we have had any and they are so fun to photograph. They are for sale and I am not sure there is anywhere off limits. In fact I believe the great-great grandparents are fro England. (Just kidding Ann, shipping would be *SO* much on one of these guys. BUT, if you happened to be in the states in about 8 weeks one could go as regular baggage I believe........:-)

New Puppies!

We thought we had another week before puppies were due but to our surprise we have a new litter of 10 very light colored golden retrievers today. This is her first litter and we wanted to be here to assist as first litters can be stressful for first time mommies. But when we got home there she was with 4 on her own, perfect. Mommy and babies are doing fine. :-)

Behind the scenes

There are more photos of rehearsals at the Cabaret! blog.

Yesterday Spring Sprung......

.....Today Winter Returns. :-)

Crocus Allready!

Spring is trying to pop already! On the way up to my office this morning this little guy was not there. At 4:10 when walking out here it was in all its glory. Maybe I only like crocus because they are first up in the spring, I don't know. But I like them. :-)

Angela

From a hasty shoot this morning. Her heart was not in it. :-(

My Kitchen

Not photographically interesting or having any impact, but this is my first panorama using my Panosaurus Panoramic Tripod Head (from Christmas)and the lens I have been looking for and finally received this week (24mm Sigma). Great combination for this. The photo below is of my kitchen and stitched together from 15 images, 3 rows of 5. Extremely detailed, too detailed for my kitchen :-), and very easy to stitch. Using a pano head makes it so that there are nearly no mistakes in alignment from frame to frame and there is very little overlap between images. If you stitch together a pano shot handheld a minimum of 30% overlap is needed to get a good stitch. There may have been only 5% on each of these shots.

This Just in..........

I entered this image and earned 12 position in the dpreview competition Small Falls challenge originally posted here in October. Not that I mean to gloat or anything, but I take this as an honor to be 12th out of 322 from around the world. Very cool. Perhaps I should hang this one on the wall! (Thanks for your support!)

Cutting Apples

First test shot with my new (old) Sigma 24mm f2.8 manual focus lens. The lens is great (so far) but it has one problem: focusing unit behind lens. (Me) :-)

On The Rocks

Foggy Sunrise

Elder

Taken today from the Oregon Pow-Wow at the fairgrounds in Salem.

Red

Pink Flower

Not a perfect image, but I like the layout.

Greenhouse Test (1)

A few of a test using my new lens. I like it so far! :-)


I may not be posting here as often as I should because I am working on another project and posting images on my Cabaret Blog. Please come over and have a look!

Riding on a Bridge

Tried to (photoshop) manipulate depth of field to give the image the look of being a miniature. Kind of worked......

First Reading

Local theater actor in his first reading of the play Cabaret.

Testing, 1...2...3...

Well, I sold my walk around workhorse lens, a Sigma 17-70. Great lens but the aperture varied from f2.8 to f4.5 when zooming and it bugged me because I always had to reset my shutter speed. I received my replacement and these are a couple of the test shots of my willing model. I purchased a Sigma 24-60 f2.8 constant aperture. Now I can zoom and know my exposure is not going to change one bit! I fear that I'll miss the 17 to 24mm range but playing around the house it is plenty wide. It is also very sharp and contrasty! Time to go out in the day and do more testing....... :=)

 

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Happy Birthday Cyndy!!