David's Images of the Day Photoblog
First day of a Photography Workshop and Safari with Winston Hall. He told me to always look behind as there may be a better image that I wasn’t thinking about. While we were focusing on the sunset, I turned around and saw the moon rising.
Battle weary alien warrior. What can I say… Looks like he needed cataract surgery. Image taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 200 mm f/4 macro lens (ISO 400, 200 mm, f/11, 1/500 sec).
The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
Street Photograph of Bicycles in Motion in Bruges. There are lots of bicycle riders in Belgium. My goal was to photograph them with the bicycle and rider in focus with the background in motion to give the viewer the impression that the bicycle was moving. You need to focus on the rider and keep moving the camera to keep the subject centered for a long exposure (~ 1/15 sec). In normal daylight even at f/16 the image is overexposed. You can use a filter. On this day the sky was cloudy, and I could just get away with a 1/15 second exposure. I think I had a 1 in 10 success rate for the day to get these 5 images.
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I arrived in Moab a day early for a Photo Safari with Winston Hall. The parking lot at the motel where I was staying was filled with Vintage Chevrolet Club of America Classic Cars on tour across Utah and Arizona.
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(note – the last image in the slideshow has Silver Rhino II hiding in the background)