I got another lucky image during my grandsons soccer practice last Tuesday. It's at a lake next to their practice fields in Northern Colorado. I love Redwing Blackbirds, they remind me of growing up in Minnesota.
Nikon Z8
Tamron 50-400mm
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Jim
I captured this yesterday at a local park in Northern Colorado while taking my 2 youngest grandsons to their soccer practice. This park has a lake in it, and I have driven by it a lot, but never released it had so many birds there, I have a bunch of images I need to process and post from there...
Actually not sure if they call it that, but in Little League for baseball they do for that age.
Anyway, some photos of my grandson Liam playing soccer on Saturday. He had 2 games, so it's a combo of both games. My grandson just in case, is the one with the blonde hair and wearing the dark green...
On my way back to Colorado, my first stop was at the Trona Pinnacles for the Milky Way. I was running a bit late to get out on the road, but we had a family night at my sisters Suite at Angels Stadium. It was an awesome game, and we got free Mandalorian and Grogu Jerseys. But going to it...
This is from last night at the Bentonite Hills in Utah. There was some nice clouds at sunset that fortunately cleared up after sunset so I could capture the Milky Way and the Lyrids meteor shower.
iPhone 17 Pro since I am on the road.
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Jim
Along the I-15 West of Baker in California there is an abandoned water park in the middle of the desert. It's covered in graffiti and a fun place to photograph. This isn't that, but on the way to my driving to it at sunset last night I saw this abandoned gas station, so I stopped to photograph...
A late night swim at Huntington Beach, California. This is from last week when I live streamed from the beach. It's fun that I can live stream and also take some photos. This is post sunset as it's starting to get a little darker.
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Jim
This is from 2 weeks ago, a different angle. I am working on the batch of images from my astro modded Nikon Z6II.
I had the Nikon Z6II modded by Spencers Camera in Utah. I know quite a few people who have used them. Instead of just an Ha mod for the Astro, they do what's called a "Visible Light...
I was livestreaming on YouTube at Huntington Beach, California last night at sunset, but I still had my Nikon Z8 so I could take photos. I had seen a huge flock of Seagulls on the sand a little ways back from the beach. They were hunkered down, and I didn't want to disturb them. But about 30...
No colors tonight at sunset, the clouds forgot to show up. :)
But I still enjoyed the feel of it. This is from Huntington Beach, California. Captured with my iPhone 17 Pro.
I also shot with my Nikon Z8, but I am finding too many images that I like from it, so it's taking me forever to do the...
Here is one of the Timelapses from Cyclops Arch in the Alabama Hills from 2 weeks ago.
One of the things that amazed me was with the 25% moon, I liked how it lit up the ground layer in the beginning. But what kind of surprised me was just how fast once the moon set behind the Eastern Sierra...
This is from last week at Huntington Beach. I was livestreaming there on YouTube for about an hour around sunset and captured this at the same time.
This is pretty much SOOC, just a little crop and I removed two oil rigs from out in the water.
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Jim
I was at Disney California Adventure livestreaming on Sunday night, it was about 8pm and in this one garden area they were backlighting these roses. I had to stop for a minute and capture 1 of them on my iPhone 17 Pro.
No editing except to downsize, so this is SOOC.
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Jim
The other night (Friday) I was Live streaming on my YouTube Channel ( @focalworldphotography5322 ) the sunset at Huntington Beach. It wasn't a great one, but it was nice. It was nice as the incoming tide would rush up and over my feet as I stood there on the edge of the tide line.
Now the...
On a night when the Milky Way tried to wash out the Milky Way on one end of the night, then there was the sun that decided it needed to rise and then it started to wash out the Milky Way at the end of the night.
This was from 10 days ago, March 23rd up in the Alabama Hills with Cyclops Arch...
This is from 10 days ago up in the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine. This is Cyclops Arch, a super weird looking arch that is almost more like an octopus when you stand inside it as it has so many arms.
Captured with the Nikon Z8 and Laowa Zero-D 10mm f2.8. This is the only "slow" lens that I will...
I captured this on Monday night in the Alabama Hills in the Eastern Sierra by Lone Pine, California.
While I had 3 cameras set up for the timelapses of the night, I kept one camera free that I could run around to various compositions and to do some pano's.
Nikon Z6II
Viltrox 16mm f1.8 (best...
I ran up to the Alabama Hills in the Eastern Sierra on Monday. They are home to over 100 named arches, and Cyclops is one of them. I will post a couple of day time photos from my phone later, but I am having an itch for the Milky Way, so I had to get back here and get my images processed.
I had...
There is an issue with Uploading Photos (attachjments). I am not sure what the problem is, and I am looking into it. You can still try to Create your Threads and Upload your Photos, but it is hanging up during the Upload.