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Tag Archives: bokeh
View 323: Spring Sports in Central New York
The calendar has turned to Spring but the weather here in central New York is still fluctuating between it and Winter. I photographed my first outdoor field lacrosse game of the season over the weekend. The weather started out windy and … Continue reading
Posted in Sports, Weekly View
Tagged 80-400mm, baldwinsville, bees, bokeh, cazenovia, central, faceoff, game, helmets, high school, lacrosse, lakers, new york, nikon D700, players, safety, snow, spring, sticks, turf, vr
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eBook Review: Sharp Shooter
In Craft & Vision‘s latest $5US eBook entitled Sharp Shooter, author Martin Baily teaches about focusing techniques you can use to take sharper photographs. It is an in depth look at not only focusing techniques but the theory behind how … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged bag pipes, baldwinsville, bokeh, color guard, craft and vision, ebook, firemen, focus, memorial day, mustache, new york, parade, piper, sharp, sharpseries, sunglasses
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Eastern Bluebird
It was a windy, cold Spring day when I visited the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge near Seneca Falls, New York last week. The Wildlife Drive was not completely open yet with a turn around and two way traffic on a … Continue reading
Posted in Animals
Tagged 80-400mm, birds, bokeh, eastern bluebird, female, montezuma national wildlife refuge, new york, nikon D7100, outdoors, seneca falls, sialia sialis, spring, vr, wildlife
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Finding Color in Your Compositions
As I mentioned when introducing this month’s assignment on Color Composition, I was surprised how little I used color that way even though I shoot it exclusively. Upon perusing my photo library, I found the following photographs I remembered taking … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged 1000 islands, 18-200mm vr, 28-300mm, atlantic, beach, bokeh, bridge, color, composition, covered, lake george, marker, new jersey, new york, nikon D70, nikon D700, ocean city, pier, prospect mountain, red, reflection, trail, vr, water, wooden, yellow
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View 224: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, I watched the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite after supper. Cronkite would introduce stories and maps of this area half way around the world called Southeast Asia where the Vietnam War was … Continue reading
Posted in Travel, Weekly View
Tagged "washington, 28-300mm, bokeh, charity, dc", flower, hope, national mall, nikon D700, red, reflection, statue, three soldiers, vietnam veterans memorial, vr, wall, women
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