The shadows in this shot made me think of the continents so I grabbed my camera, again...peopel were starting to look at me funny, and shot away. Slight rotate and contrast adjustments.

Visiting an old friend of mine in Dayton. 16mm is such a cool lens, okay...I guess wide angle shots are cool too. After all, I live in telephoto lens land so this is a new experience for me.

Okay, this was fun. 16mm, ISO 3200 (yes, really), 1/20s and shot through the window of my 757 flight from Denver. Experimental photography is so much fun!!!!

Focus taken in flight, slightly off but again, pushing the limits at 400mm and 1/160 with no strobe. Sometimes it's cool shat you can pull off. These guys 'love' my backyard.

Starry night, last Sunday when the 'meteor shower' was supposed to happen. Took this for 15 minutes and managed to capture one trail but only faintly, right to left diagonal. Noise reduction in PS and slight curves adjust.

Duane looking professional in his office, auto white balance did pretty nicely.

View two of the same nest, handheld so I sharpened due to jitter even with the VR running. I was stretching to shoot at arms length and just couldn't keep the camera still with the extension, lens length and aperture. I am happy with it though.

Busy as a hornet in the middle of summer, okay...this was one of those cool pictures before you get the wasp spray since this well populated nest was sitting right under our patio.

Photos from our travels.

Portal 99, this entrance is used by a remote colony of undersea creatures that cannot travel via routine methods. The other side of the portal is in the Pool of Anara on their planet.

Barn photo. Light from outside north, slllooowww shutter so I sharpened some. Not too bad though.

Graffiti girl.

Dragging the shutter and trying out the VR on my 18-200, braces done...happy girl.

Okay Duane, I did take this river shot so no more jokes. :)

Can you say 'attitude' practice?

So how close can you actually get to a chipmunk with an 18-200 lens? Sometimes, you just turn yourself invisible. Of course if you didn't come with that feature then it's a little trickier. They only offered that option on certain years.

Fly fishing 101, or what I did on my summer vacation. Okay, the form is not great but it is more exercise than sitting in a boat and less boring. :) It is also less stressful than work and more expensive than professional photography. :)

Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full. These three hummingbirds negotiate a tricky dance faster than the human eye can track as they flit in and out of the feeder.

Guts galore! 20 trout and more on a lake in Northern CO. Not bad, this is my son's first time doing the fishing thing where the fish are big enough to clean and eat.

Wishflowers, giant size! These don't blow very well either, they require a bit of oommppff.