Cats Afternoon

Kress, eight week old female Scottish Fold


George, eight week old Scottish Fold male, straight ears


Mr Chin, male with folded ears, giving George a pat on the head.


Kress soaking up the heat from my desklamp, keeping me from work.

The Kittens Are Growing

The following pictures were taken about a week ago, when the kittens were seven weeks old. Today the kittens turned eight weeks and the first one to move out has found an excellent home with our son in sunny Kelowna. These cats are wonderfully socialized and will settle well in whatever home they go to.


Mother Sophie with the awesome Mr. Chin

1/60 sec f.5.6 60mm prime ISO200


Beautiful, brilliant and bursting with energy, this little lady we call Kress

1/60 sec f9 60mm ISO200


George, the Littlest Holstein. That gray between his paws is the last of his first mouse capture!

1/60 sec f8 78mm ISO800


Ems is sticking her tongue out and George is reaching out. Whatever it is it must look tasty.

1/60 sec f9 60mm ISO200

Color Valuing (Temperature) Photographs In Post Production

Today I would like to offer three versions of the same photograph in order to illustrate a simple yet visually appealing option in post-production, color valuing.

In truth, all three images are the same photograph. The different look and feel of each image is a result of the visual / emotional impact of the color values perceived. A simple adjustment of the temperature value slider and, Voila', an entirely different photo!

The original picture is shown first. It has not been edited in any way, it has only been converted from NEF (Nikon's RAW Format) to a reduced dimension JPG.


Personal Water Craft On Shuswap Lake - Original

1/6400 sec f.8 400mm ISO400 Color Temperature 4696

PWC - Warmed Up ...emphasizes the Golden Light...

1/6400 sec f.8 400mm ISO400 Color Temperature 8000

PWC - Cooled Down ...truest to the minds rendition at "Cheese" time...

1/6400 sec f.8 400mm ISO400 Color Temperature 3800


Please use the comments to state which you prefer and why. Any other comments and/or feedback is also welcome.

Graduation 2010

A family we are friends with celebrated the youngest daughters high school graduation the June. She has determined a solid educational path towards the profession she has chosen. She is an intelligent young lady and she will do well. As always, we pray that life continue to unfold well for her.


Balloons on the family float pulled in the Grad Parade

1/1600 sec f.8 55mm ISO400


Water Girls or Pink Mermaid

1/1250 sec f.4.8 86mm ISO400


After the Toss

1/10 sec f.5.6 200mm ISO1600


It says it all...

1 sec f.8 98mm ISO1000

Hunting the Elusive Yellow Headed Blackbird

Along the Salmon Arm waterfront is a rich marshland ecosystem that is recognized as important breeding habitat for several wetlands phyla and species. Amongst these breeders are Yellow Head Blackbird, which were my photographic pursuit on June 8, 2010. I weaponized the Nikon D70 with a Nikon Field Scope coupled through an SLR-Scope Adapter and set out to picture these illusive YH Blackbirds. For some unknown reason this lens, though powerful, appears to be incapable of capturing a "Money Shot," mostly because of severe Chromatic Aberration, secondarily due to a lack of ability to obtain Critical Focus, likely from the same basic optical fault that produces the Aberrations. None-the-less, I enjoyed my day and managed a few pictures I could enjoy anyway.


Yellow Headed Blackbird With Tail Fanned



The bird here is admittedly blurred, yet I quite like the tones and the pastel smoothness of the soft focus clouds.



Flying Fish? Darwin's (mythological) missing link? How does he carry the fish like that? -Look ma, no hands! (The only post processing done on this image is crop, dust removal, white point adjustment and reveal shadow detail.)



Over the years I have discovered that there is almost always a picture within a picture and along the same lines, there is usually another photo ready to be made if you take the time to look around you. My adapted scope-lens did not deliver a printable shot of this sailboat, but it did let me enjoy myself capturing compositions of this sportsman on the water.



All above shots taken with Nikon D70, Nikon Fieldscope IV (f.13) and Nikon FSA-L1 Adapter. ISO 400, Various shutter speeds.