Here is what I have been up to for the last few weeks:
MOMentum is building…
Tattoo!
Hagerty Mandolins
Hagerty Mandolins
Hagerty Mandolins
Ground squirrel taunts us
This got published in Taos News
Eskes crowd watching the fireworks
Gun buy-back in Taos
Eskes Bluegrass Jam
15 miles to the south of Taos, the Sardinas Canyon fire inspires a sunset cumulus cloud…
These photos are hanging in a show in Taos. An admirer asked me to write a little bit about my process:
The photos were taken during sunflower season in Taos. I was shooting out the passenger window of our car with a 17-40mm Canon 5DMII – we were going about 40MPH. The camera was set for manual focus and the drive mode set to continuous, so I could capture about 4 frames every second. These are the specific settings:
Top photo: 1/125 sec at F/10 ISO 100 20mm
Bottom photo: 1/80 sec at F/7.1 ISO 100 17mm
The reason for the portrait orientation is that I was one-handing the camera, letting it dangle out the window, not sighting through the viewfinder. The blur in the foreground is due to car motion blur, but the background is nominally in focus, due to the small aperture and wide angle lens – the shutter speed was high enough to kill the camera shake, but slow enough to blur those sunflowers zipping by, close to the camera. I did a lot of experimenting with shutter speed to get these nice exposures.
Nice prints of these and others available here!
Dear followers –
Here is a recap of May, all shot with the amazing GoPro Hero 5 Black…
And, regarding gun violence in America, consider coming off the sidelines
Roadrunner Jam
Roadrunner Jam
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Paper artist Julie R.
The Spot…
Pot Creek
Fiddler Ed…
Great keyboardist
Party w/Denise
Nature bath with Julie
Julie w/Randy
Supporting the good one!
Got published in Taos News!!
Droning for Gun Violence Awareness
Hand-held, available light, good times!
