More From the Incident at Turkey Creek, What You Didn't Know
In the interest of giving you a more complete account of my untimely and unplanned dip into Turkey Creek, I will share some additional details.  This post picks up the story as I am making my way out of the creek and onto the bank beside the creek. My clothing at the time consisted of a t-shirt, a pair of jeans, wool socks, hiking boots, a jacket, and a baseball cap.&n

Nature Photography, Falling In a Creek, and the Nikon D700
First let me say, having an opportunity to help the Alabama's Forever Wild Program through my photography is a privilege and an honor.  My personal situation in that regard took a bit of an unfortunate turn yesterday  afternoon (11/28/2009).  My intentions were to capture more of the beauty of

Upside Down?
Reflection photographs interest me for many reasons.  Recently I have been doing some work with manually manipulating all of the settings and focus on the camera to explore some new areas.  One of these areas involves a number of photographs of scenes reflected in water (e.g. lakes). Before anybody gets overly excited, we are not likely to be solving any mysteries of the univer

Autumn, painted on the water by the sun
For lack of a better term, I will call this a mini-post.  I have been working on capturing reflections in the water in a way that fits a vision in my head.  It's my attempt to record the beauty that I see with my camera. Water, colors, and light fascinate me - this scene was created by nature and captured by my camera. Other than controlling the ISO, the apertu

So Many Photographs
Over the past two years, I have spent a significant amount of time taking many photos and processing a portion of those images.  Early in the process I spent a lot of time with the camera, learning how to operate it, learning how to use the camera to capture the vision in my head in a photograph. Nothing out of the ordinary in the previous paragraph and I am sure it has been repeated in one way or