Mentoring afternoon

These were taken in Galilee, RI with my Canon G12..the bottom one was a feeding frenzy of gulls when some fishermen dropped fish carcasses in the water..I love the one gull who is just sort of sitting there and acting as though he is not part of that chaos...it started raining pretty hard within an hour of arriving at the beach..you can see the clouds in the third image thickening and starting to roll into the harbor...there were a couple of wind surfers braving the chilly water...
I am the mentoring chairperson for our club, the Photographic Society of RI, and had a few people from the mentoring class (for people new to digital photography) with me...unfortunately, due to the rain, we only photographed about an hour...

Micky and other musings

This is me riding my horse, Micky..he has lived with me over 11 years now and is getting up in age: he's 21.
Last summer was a bad one for him: he had Lyme disease and also developed Cushings disease, which is PPID in horses..it occurs when the pituitary gland begins overproducing hormones; it can be devastating for an animal.  I treated him with Doxycycline for Lyme but also have to keep him on Pergolide to control the hormone production...I take every day as a gift to have him with me.

days two and three

Here are the images for the last day and also today...I slacked off already from the daily image project, but did take two today to try to make amends!  The top image is a fawn near my barn and the bottom is one of my cats taking a dirt roll...they were both shot with my 70-300mm L lens by Canon..this lens has been one of the best investments I've made;  it was invaluable on my trip to Argentina and Chile: it was used on every telephoto mountain image..

Image per day project!

Here is the beginning image of my Image per Day project...needless to say, this isn't the first time I have embarked on this endeavor, only to fail miserably after about two weeks or less...this time, there is a steely determination to complete the project...it will help me become a better photographer and since I shoot almost every day anyway, it will encourage me to take better images and even post the failures if there is no choice...this image was taken on a foggy morning as the trees are just changing color here in Rhode Island...
taken with my trusty G9, which I unfortunately will be retiring because of scratches on the lens and a ton of dust inside the camera..what is that all about?  How did the dust get in behind the lens?  oh well, these questions will remain unanswered as I make the transition to the G12 that I've had a couple of years but barely used...

Back from the Canadian Rockies

Just returned this week from a tour of the Canadian Rockies out of Aurum Lodge with Darwin Wiggett...this is my fifth time in the Rockies, but it never gets boring...the Canadian Rockies are always breathtaking and magnificent in any weather.  I have walked in the Andes, but the Rockies have always touched my heart; the stark beauty and power are unforgettable...the Endless Chain of mountains on the road to Jasper is a rare,
incredible sight..these are a few of the images from that tour..the top one is a rusted, burned out car detail; the second is sunrise from Preacher's point with a lot of wind and a long exposure; the next is sunrise at the North Saskatechwan river and the last is from Rampart Creek...now that I have returned home, there is a project in my mind..it is one that has proven elusive:   an image a day for a year...hope to start it tomorrow to see if I can keep it going..it won't be easy..

Beavertail and Canada

Last weekend I went out to Beavertail with a couple of friends to do some shooting..the clouds were pretty amazing:  cirrus clouds that almost looked like ocean waves.  The color never really came into the sky as the sun set but this conversion to black and white seemed to capture the feel of that day.
This weekend I am off to the Canadian Rockies for the fifth time.  It is a place that provokes a feeling of peace and belonging in me; there is just something about the Canadian Rockies in Alberta and British Columbia that is inexplicable...I have been blown away by Fitz Roy and Torres del Paine, but there is a quiet strength in the Canadian Rockies that seems to touch my soul...the mountains there are not as dramatic as the Andes but every bit as impressive...