Thursday, July 31, 2008
Storm Clearing
Daggers in Pastel
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Cracked (04930032)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
shades, Camden Lock
Monday, July 28, 2008
Super Heroes
Sunday, July 27, 2008
National Tree Day
It was National Tree Day yesterday here in Australia. While it was not my intention to make a picture with the days theme in mind I could not go past this shadow on my car.
Labels: robert
Friday, July 25, 2008
Moon Stone
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Eurostar, St Pancras
Dixie Ranch Road
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Not So Secret Garden?
Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
Walking the Glen (9)
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Outside My Window
Saturday, July 19, 2008
No mattter where you go, there you are. (04930006)
SS Great Britain
Friday, July 18, 2008
Untitled
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Jessica in Red
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
walled up
Monday, July 14, 2008
A Front Door
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Walking the Glen (8)
Singing Florida Grasshopper Sparrow
I have resisted posting one of these on Stills before now -- maybe because they are not really for critiquing and I was not sure there would be a lot of interest -- but I am rather proud of them just because there are no other good photos of these birds that I'm aware of and because of the effort behind them. I'll try to keep it short!
Getting images of this rather plain, little (5-inch) bird wearing lots of jewelry was my spring "project". I've never worked so hard or so long for a photo before. Federally endangered -- fewer than 1,000 birds of this subspecies are left -- all in a relatively small area of central Florida. They are very secretive and "hang out" low in the prairie grasses. The males only perch up to sing their thin, buzzy song in the spring -- (even then, I discovered, they don't perch up very high!)
After months of planning and a number of very discouraging failed attempts, on April 24th the "stars finally aligned" and I got this image (and about 100 others!) of a cooperative male -- one of three in the park that had not managed to find a mate by then. It was a very exciting and rewarding experience.
I should mention it was quite a team effort --I could not have succeeded without the help of researcher Marianne Korosy and her team, the cooperation of the staff at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve, some generous advice from professional bird photographer Alan Murphy, and so much help and encouragement from Stan that he really deserves a credit on the photos.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Canal access way - Xitang
Trees Can't Read
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Sunset on Highway 58
lovely Rita
Imperfect Family Photo
When I saw this come off the scanner, I thought of the Martin Parr interview that Guy linked to earlier.
I'll be out of town and away from the web for a few days, but I'll catch up on comments when I get back.
Labels: matt
Monday, July 07, 2008
Gas Meter and Walls with Plant
Kita-karasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo.
Friday, July 04, 2008
Super Symmetry 2
Shopping delight - Hongqiao
Thursday, July 03, 2008
A family of Black Skimmers
A colony of these interesting birds is nesting on the beach five minutes from my home on a busy beach. It is roped off (as it should be) and the birds will dive bomb anyone getting close to the ropes. I stacked two teleconverters on a 500mm lens to get this close up.
