Home studio

I have been building a very basic home studio. Equipment: 

Canon Speedlite 430EX flash

Paramount hotshoe to miniphone cord (Speedlite on hotshoe)

Elinchom Skyport Universal Trigger Set (transmitter on camera hotshoe and receiver plugged to Paramount cord).

Stand with white translucent umbrella.

Here is what it looks like so far:

And a still composition "Man and Woman" (full size image here).

Shadows

Some nice shadow lead-in lines walking around Boulder today. Check out some more on flickr.

Oh my, what have I done??

It's often the case that after snapping away on my camera around Denver, I will get a close look at the images weeks after and get this "hey, what is this?" type of feeling. Typical case, the image below. It's not a ghost walking the streets of Denver, it's just Fanni with a commuter rail on the background. 

More photos from that walk on a cold Denver afternoon are here.

Bosque del Apache

A couple weeks ago I took a trip trip to Bosque del Apache ("woods of the Apache") national wildlife refuge near Socorro, New Mexico.  Its lakes are the wintering grounds of thousands of birds, mostly ducks, snow geese and sandhill cranes. 

The sight and sound of the birds flying in in the evening to spend the night at the lakes is spectacular.  In the morning, slightly after sunrise, all the snow geese gathered at one side of the lake from where they all took off as one huge flock. 

A selection of more photographs from that trip is on flickr. 

Portraits

Portraits, on flickr.

Out and about in Denver

On the first snowy day of this winter I went back to some of the photos I took last summer around Denver. On flickr.

At the Obama rally last Sunday in Denver. Some more on flickr.