Five-Years Ago (19-August-2011) — New Jersey

Summertime Nature at the Sourland Mountain Preserve.

Praying Mantis Eating a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth.  Image taken with a Nikon D700 camera and 28-300 mm VR lens (ISO 200, 300 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro 6, Nik Define, and Photoshop CS5.

Praying Mantis Eating Hummingbird Clearwing Moth. Sourland Mountain Preserve, Summer Nature in New Jersey. Image taken with a Nikon D700 and 28-300 mm VR lens (ISO 200, 300 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro 6, Nik Define, and Photoshop CS5. (David J Mathre)
Praying Mantis Eating Hummingbird Clearwing Moth. Image taken with a Nikon D700 camera and 28-300 mm VR lens (ISO 200, 300 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro 6, Nik Define, and Photoshop CS5. (David J Mathre)

Thursday (18-August-2016) — New Jersey

Summertime in New Jersey.

This carnival requires a lot of power. Image taken with a Leica T camera and 23 mm f/2 lens (ISO 100, 23 mm, f/5, 1/1000 sec).

This carnival requires a lot of power. Image taken with a Leica T camera and 23 mm f/2 lens (ISO 100, 23 mm, f/5, 1/1000 sec) (David J Mathre)
This carnival requires a lot of power. Image taken with a Leica T camera and 23 mm f/2 lens (ISO 100, 23 mm, f/5, 1/1000 sec) (David J Mathre)

Six-Years Ago (18-August-2010) — California

Photography Techniques — Focus Stacking.

Grandpa Reading a Book at Bodie Ghost Town. Focus stacked composite of 32 images taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 60 mm f/2.8 macro lens. (ISO 100, 60 mm, f/3.2, 1/60 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and Helicon Focus.

Grandpa Reading a Book at Bodie Ghost Town. Focus stacked composite of 32 images taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 60 mm f/2.8 macro lens. (ISO 100, 60 mm, f/3.2, 1/60 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and Helicon Focus. (David J Mathre)
Grandpa Reading a Book at Bodie Ghost Town. Focus stacked composite of 32 images taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 60 mm f/2.8 macro lens. (ISO 100, 60 mm, f/3.2, 1/60 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and Helicon Focus. (David J Mathre)

Wednesday (17-August-2016) — New Jersey

Backyard Summertime Night Sky Over New Jersey.

Night Time Thunderstorm. Two minute time-lapse video. Moon, Clouds, Lightning. Approximately 3000 Images taken between midnight and 4 AM from my backdoor using a Nikon D810A camera and 24 mm f/3.5 PC-E lens (ISO 800, 24 mm, f/4, 4 sec). At one point I had to move the camera away from the door during a heavy downpour. Time-lapse video created from the in camera jpg images using Photoshop CC. This was the fourth night in a row that we have had thunderstorms.

Five-Years Ago (17-August-2011) — New Jersey 

Backyard Summertime Nature in New Jersey.

Rambunkshus teenage Fawns — “Got Milk”. Images taken with a Nikon


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