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Life Support – Taken for granted

Life Support – Taken for granted

School of Horse-eyed jacks, Little Cayman, Caribbean Sea #FI-9587 In my last post, I mentioned a little bit about the difficulties in keeping track of all the things you need to be aware of when photographing underwater.   There is a lot to keep track of, but it...

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Right place at the right tide

Right place at the right tide

Being a midwesterner who rarely thinks about things like tide tables, that aspect wasn't immediately in my mind with our recent visit to California.    However, as I found out by "trial and error", it dramatically alters the ability to access certain areas...

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Water reflections

Water reflections

These images are from a couple months ago from a visit to a pond in the woods behind my home.  The water was particularly calm this day, a light cool temperature.  I became not only enamored with the wider scene in front of me, but the smaller details as well.   So I...

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The Mac Experience – Part 4

Getting a new computer can be a great source of fun, as well as a lot of work in migrating all of your software and data over  Adding a new computer with a new type of operating system.. you would think it compounds the work  But actually it has been much easier than...

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Underwater pictures

I spent some time today scanning some underwater images of mine from my long ago trip to Dominica. Scanning film, dust spotting, and color correcting is such a time consuming process, I have a significant portion of my image library that has never seen the net. I...

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Water versus Rock

I just got back from a very quick photo trip for a couple days to the Cleveland area, about a 3.5 hr drive from where I live. I went primarily to photograph wood ducks in a spot known for their approachability, but also ended up being able to explore some other areas...

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Wetpixel Quarterly and missing underwater

The folks over at Wetpixel have just introduced their print publication called Wetpixel Quarterly. Given the talent of underwater photographers over at Wetpixel, I have no doubt this will be a fantastic publication. There are not too many underwater photography print...

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Inspiration and fermentation

I recently saw Greg Lato's post where he describes some images that he has had sitting around for a couple of years contemplating what to do with them. Dan Sroka also wrote about this recently. I can relate to this completely. Quite often we capture images because...

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Photography of sand, water & time

During my recent trip to Michigan's U.P. (Upper Penninsula for you out of state folk) - I spent most of my mornings taking advantage of the low water levels in Lake Superior. In several bays, there were quite a few sandbars (or sandbanks if you prefer) and 'tidepools'...

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