Category Archives: Photos

The whole shootin’ match.

Take a bow

I’m currently going through a major transition (all good!), so I’m wrapping stuff up and preparing to change coordinates. Also, I’ve got this brand new, monster of a camera but I’m ridiculously busy–aargh!… Lots of 5DM3 “Out and About” photos will be coming soon. In the meantime, another close-up of flora at the homestead from this past weekend.

Salsify up close

Lens: Canon Ef 24-105mm f/4.0L at 105mm. 1/3200 second at f/4, ISO 200.

Canon 5DM3 in training.

Totally tripping at the homestead

So I got the 5D Mark III, which necessitated updating my computer’s system so I could run software that could read the camera RAW files… ALL WORTH IT! WOW! What a revelation!! “L” glass with the new 5D is nothing less than the SHITE! Here’s some blooming flora from the yard. I did minimal processing on these images, and the first (the aloe bloom) is pretty much straight from the camera.

Aloe bloom

Red rose in the shade

Cactus bloom

Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L. All at ISO 200.

1st image: lens at 105mm, 1/5000 second at f/4.
2nd image: lens at 105mm, 1/500 second at f/6.3.
3rd image: lens at 105mm, 1/100 second at f/6.3.

(Interesting that I chose images only from the long end of the zoom range.)

Canon 5DM3 making my day.

Sonoma County hillside

I took this shot back in April. It’s a view of what I see every day during the last leg of my commute home. The grass will grow longer and turn brown by June, and the deciduous oaks will fill in and darken, but this is the mise en scène of southern Sonoma County.

A hillside in Sonoma County

Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm at 31mm. 1/100 second at f/11, ISO 100.

Canon T21 capturing the familiar.

Portrait of a lizard on warm spring day

I was hanging out on the patio after a day of yard work when I saw this alligator lizard pop out of a cranny to catch some warm spring sun rays. I quickly fetched my camera and fired off a few shots. The 70-300mm zoomed all the way in made for a very shallow depth of field view of the lizard, and a nice headshot.

Portrait of an alligator lizard

Lens: Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM at 300mm. 1/160 second at f/5.6, ISO 100.

Canon T2i sunning with a lizard.