From Slides to Digital with the D850
I spent the past couple of weekends finding a way to use my Nikon DSLR to convert slides to digital files. I started taking photographs in 1982, first using Kodachrome…
Different Ways to Photograph Hummingbirds: Part 1
The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is the only species of hummingbird known to occur regularly in my home state of North Carolina. Over the years there have been at least 11 other…
First Time-lapse Video: A Starry Night at Mattamuskeet Lodge
I finally got a new computer with enough processing power to create time-lapse videos so I went back to Lake Mattamuskeet to photograph Polaris, the North Star, above historic Mattamuskeet…
Outer Banks Night Photography March 2019
Night photography images of the Outer Banks, including Milky Way images, star trails, and Lighthouse light beams
A Favorite Wood Duck Image
One of my favorite wood duck images, taken last fall on my backyard pond.
Photographing Bodie Island Lighthouse and the Milky Way
With a weekend forecast of clear skies and moonless nights, I decided to drive to the Outer Banks and photograph Bodie Island Lighthouse with a Milky Way backdrop. So I loaded up the car and left home at 1:30 pm last Saturday.
(more…)Photographing the Eastern Screech Owl
The eastern screech owl is a subject that I’ve wanted to photograph for many years, with no success whatsoever. Although I’d heard their eerie and distinctive song many evenings, I had never even seen one in the wild until this year. In late January I discovered one using several wood duck boxes on my pond as roosts and nocturnal feeding stations. The only photographs I took were of the owl asleep inside a nest box. My luck finally changed in April,
(more…)How Big is a Wood Duck?
Wood Ducks are typically shy, elusive creatures of woodland waterways. They are generally less commonly seen than some other types of waterfowl. And for those who have never personally seen one, it’s often hard to tell the size of a wood duck from a photograph.
(more…)The Old Sautee Store
The Old Sautee Store was built in 1872 at the intersection of two major roads— at the confluence of the Sautee and Nacoochee valleys in the North Georgia mountains.
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