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A pastel sunset over Lake Buhlow in central Louisiana slides into blue hour as the lights come on at a small general aviation airport on the far shore. I hoped something would happen but the sunset was relatively uneventful. Good thing this was a long exposure -- Otherwise the swarming bugs...

April is starting to remind us that May is soon arriving, which prepares us for June and the rest of summer (until late October). It's still nice, but getting warmer and definitely more humid. This morning was broken overcast with fleeting sunlight. I took a drive to a local wildlife management...

Tired of sitting inside, I drove to a small local lake this afternoon. Although we have about a week left in April, there are signs of heading toward summer already. This was all I came away with, pedestrian as it is. A two-shot blend in order to keep the highlights under control in the harsh...

Something a little different today. Flat light, no skies: What to shoot? Well, I found an interesting (albeit compositionally-limited) subject, so I well all abstract on ya...

We went to Arkansas last week for the eclipse and a little post-eclipse relaxing in the mountains. I took a few shots, but nothing too significant. This was the main event, ostensibly. However, it was just as much for me an excuse to get away from home. While waiting for Sol to do his thing...

I've been an amateur astronomer / observer since 1987. I was hooked after buying a set of cheap Sears 7x50 binoculars, at half price, and then taking a look upward outside one night. Although I've owned a number of telescopes over the years, I'm definitely not in the "upper echelon" of...

It almost seems a bit ... pedestrian ... in the context of other images posted lately, but here's the result of a quick drive out to a small lake in the area. Earlier in the day (and particularly, yesterday -- naturally) the sky was mucho better. It earlier looked as if it would hold promise...

The forecast was for fog this morning starting a few hours before, and extending for several hours after, sunrise. So I set the alarm for 5 AM and made the ~40 minute drive to the Catahoula National Wildlife Reserve (fueled on two sugar cookies and a cuppa, no less!). There was indeed fog and...

I bought a used copy of Examples -- The Making of 40 Photographs (1983, by Ansel Adams) which arrived just today. It initially looked like an interesting book and sure enough, not even one full page into Adams' introduction (never mind the images just yet) did he say something that resonates...

The base of a bald cypress tree in Chicot Lake near Ville Platte, Louisiana.

The weather has been really and unexpectedly nice here just recently, like 70F / 20C with blue sky. It was cold by our standards a couple of weeks ago but has warmed up. I’m sure more winter is coming, but while the weather is good I headed out locally with my camera. And found nothing. So...

Not much "gold" in golden hour today (except after sunset when there was plenty, but that's another story). However, there were some pleasant pastels low in the west about an hour before sunset. Made for a decent minimalist image, I think. I was shooting at 800 ISO earlier and this was at that...

A few months ago I was given a Ricoh XR-P with a Rikenon P 50mm f/1.7 lens from my now deceased brother-in-law. I bought a K-mount adapter and have been using the lens a bit with my Canon DSLR -- Partly because it's what I shoot with but also because the XR-P has a stuck wind lever (cellphone...

I don't know if there are guidelines or protocols prohibiting the posting of multiple images per message, but if so I'll just ask for forgiveness up front. And I promise to never do it again. :) These were taken more or less in central Louisiana. We don't have spectacular landscapes in the...

When I left my house the sky was (as we said back in my flying days) "broken" -- Mostly cloudy but with mixed clear areas of nice sunshine. The moment I arrived at my destination, a local recreation area, it turned overcast. I swear I heard the clouds clanging together as they joined up. But...

Shiny brand new member here, right out of the box! 🙃 I've just signed up and looking forward to participating. I'm retired and a hobbyist landscape photographer here in the deep south US (central Louisiana). If interested, my Flickr photos are linked in my signature. Although I had a cheap...