Rejected!

Earlier this week I received disappointing news from the selection committee for "Art of the State". Of the 2,179 entries, 157 works were chosen and my 6 entries were not among them. That just means, there is work to be done and much to learn. Of the 6 entries, I am posting the four photographs that have yet to be posted to this site. "On The Move" and "Nexus Sphinx" were posted to the site on 3/14/09. The following four complete the six.

"Red Hind on the Reef"
"Deb's Lighthouse Portrait"

"Casually Peering"

"Angel Eyes"

Finishing "A Nice Find"

As I said in the previous post, this fox after it crossed the road in front of me, didn't venture to far into the field. That gave me the time to get my car turned around and use it to get into position for the shots. The sun was setting and so I was losing light. In the process of turning around I was prepping the camera settings for the lighting. These were shot with my 70-300mm, I opened up the lense as far as I could and zoomed out to 300mm. I still noticed that I was still slightly under-exposing the shots so I reduced the shutter speed I think it was about 1/50th and that's abit slow for wildlife but the fox was meandering in the field stopping occasionally to sniff the air. Then it began to head further into the field when it caught a scent. It leaped at something moving through the thick grass and ate whatever it was. I can only guess it found a nest of something because it was apparent that she was no longer interested in the presence of my truck which gave me the perfect photo opp. I finished filling the card that I had been using the previous day, so quickly I had to change cards. All along thinking my subject was going to leave. But as providence would have it, she stayed with her find at times leaping at the fleeing prey. I ran up the ISO which had been at 200 to 800 in order to get some more sensitivity and bump up the shutter speed. Which was still slow at 1/100 but with the IS and the 40D's 6.5 frames per sec., I think I still captured some nice shots. After finishing her feast, she moved to the brush you see in the background and I turned around to continue where I was initially going feeling elated and blessed for the opp. On another note, hope everyone had a nice Resurrection Day! Have a great day!

A Nice Find

Well it's been while since I posted, but yesterday this fine girl crossed my path. I was able to turn my car around and get these and many other shots right from my window. It didn't seem phased at all that I was there. So I took a break from doing taxes and prepped these images while watching the final round of the Masters at Easter dinner at my parents. I wanted these posted while I was on a roll with the post processing. Apparently, I uploaded the maximum amount of pictures for a post so I'll have to post again to get the others that I processed uploaded. I've had a request for some of my more recent images. I'll try to get that accomplished along with the underwater images.