01/13/2015 | Categories: Lens flare, Night photography | Tags: night, rain, train, twiloght, wet, Ybor City | Comments Off
12/12/2014 | Categories: Landscape, Lens flare, Nature | Tags: autumn, fall color, forest, hills, leaves, lens flare, snow, sun, woods | Comments Off
11/13/2014 | Categories: Fine art, Landscape, Lens flare, Nature, Silhouette | Tags: autumn, fall, mountains, sky, sun, trees, walnut trees | Comments Off
10/09/2014 | Categories: Fine art, Landscape, Lens flare, Nature | Tags: forest, rain, raindrops, storm, sun, sunshine, trees, woods | Comments Off
09/08/2014 | Categories: Fine art, Landscape, Lens flare, My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: afternoon. sun, forest, Jemez Mountain, lens flare, New Mexico, stream, trees, woods | Comments Off
06/30/2014 | Categories: Lens flare, Nature | Tags: forest, golden orb weaver, spider, sun, web, woods | Comments Off
06/24/2014 | Categories: Lens flare, Nature | Tags: blossom, flower, leaves, shrub, sky, summer, sun | Comments Off
03/11/2014 | Categories: Fine art, Landscape, Lens flare | Tags: catwalk, sunset, swamp, trees | Comments Off
01/30/2014 | Categories: Lens flare | Tags: aircraft, desert, grounded, jet, sky, sun | Comments Off
12/23/2013 | Categories: Fine art, Lens flare, Silhouette | Tags: shower, spray, sun, water | Comments Off
10/09/2013 | Categories: Landscape, Lens flare, My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: aspen trees, forest, lens flare, Santa Fe National Forest, sky, sun, trees, yellow | Comments Off
I am often asked why I have so many 50mm lenses and how do I choose which one to use for a shot. First off they are all old (70′s vintage) and really inexpensive to get. Most importantly they each have a different optical design and therefore they each render a different flavor of lens flare and bokeh from one another. When I shoot a scene in backlighting, (and all my friends know that’s what I love to do every chance I get) I pick my lens based on what I want the flare and bokeh to look like. This is a case in point. The lens I used has a damaged front element and I won’t throw it away because I know it does this when I use it right. You may find it hard to believe but there hasn’t been a single thing done to this image in post processing. This is exactly what was produced in-camera because of my lens choice, the lighting, and the subject matter.
05/01/2013 | Categories: Fine art, Landscape, Lens flare, Nature | Tags: bokeh, field, flowers, gold, lens flare, SOOC | 1 Comment »
01/24/2013 | Categories: Architecture, Fine art, Lens flare, My guided photo tour | Tags: blue, church, doors, guided photography tour, lens flare, New Mexico, San Ysidro, sun | Comments Off
I love to make artistic use of lens flare in my compositions and the late afternoon sun was willing to go along with me as I roamed the old city plaza.
10/04/2012 | Categories: Lens flare, My guided photo tour | Tags: afternoon, Albuquerque, lens flare, New Mexico, sun | Comments Off
Lens flare, saturated colors, repetitive patterns… You know I was totally sucked into this one.
05/15/2012 | Categories: Lens flare, My guided photo tour, Silhouette | Tags: blue, guided photography tour, lens flare, New Mexico, pattern, sky, sun | Comments Off
I think I forgot to post this one back when I shot it last month. The plane in the image is a Lockheed Electra, the same model aircraft that Amelia Earhart used in her infamous attempt at trans-global flight. While I was photographing I was told that this is the specific plane that was used in the 2009 documentary film about her life.
In other news, a book that I worked on as photo editor, photo restorer, and contributing photographer, Tampa’s Hyde Park by author Del Acosta was just published on Monday. It is a pictorial history of one of Tampa’s oldest neighborhoods. Available at Amazon.com, bookstores, and museum stores.
05/08/2012 | Categories: Lens flare | Tags: airplane, Amelia Earhart, Lockheed Electra, sunrise | 1 Comment »
The weather feels like summer so I am putting up this shot that feels like summer.
05/02/2012 | Categories: Lens flare, Nature | Tags: flower, summer, sunflower, yellow | Comments Off
I was prepping one of the hot air balloons for flight at the Sun N’ Fun Fly In the other morning at dawn. Of course I had a couple of cameras on me as I worked and this was one of the snaps I made as the sun began to rise.
04/02/2012 | Categories: Lens flare, People | Tags: airshow, balloons, hot air balloons, sunrise | 1 Comment »
