Criscenti’s Bog with 50mm lens and a tube
Last Saturday I joined a group of very enthusiastic photographers at the Philbrick-Criscenti Bog in New London, NH. Although I took some photos with a longer lens, I had fun…
Playing with an iPhone Camera
I purchased a new 8MP camera that came with a phone attached. It is called a 4S. I've used the phone a few times, but I have been mostly learning…
Red-tailed Hawk in West Lebanon
Jann spied an "owl" high up in a bare tree far across the parking lot of the "K-mart Plaza" in West Lebanon yesterday. As we drove over to investigate it…
Merry Christmas
A few days before Christmas we had 6 visitors. Here are four of them. We took a hike along Mink Brook to the Connecticut River. Ice was just starting to…
Manang Simplified
The village of Manang, located in Nepal north of the Annapurna range and east of Mustang, abounds with fascinating stone structures. This brief slide show has versions of some of…
Wood Ducks on Clay Brook
The morning was cold, dark, wet, and foggy around Post Pond. I vertured into the Chaffee Wildlife Sanctuary hoping to photograph wood ducks. Several males flew by and a female…
Field Trip Photography Lessons
This is a photography teaching blog post, a photo quiz, and a trip report from a photo field trip I led in Northern Vermont October 2, 2011. A small group braved…
Great Blue Heron on Lake Sunapee
For years I tried to sneak up on Great Blue Herons in my canoe in order to get a photo. Most of the time the photos were poor; it was…
Bike Ride Simplified
Sometimes simple is nice. Photographers buy expensive lenses, high megapixel cameras, and some even use tripods (horrors!) to get sharp, highly detailed images. But sometimes a photo looks better without…
Spring Covers
Kearsarge in New Hampshire, Upper Valley Life in NH and Vermont, and Down East in Maine are three great magazines. But I admit to being biased. All emphasize photography by…
Thorung La Conquered
We spent the night before at the end of the world, or so it seemed. The Annapurna Circuit trail we had hiked for 10 days ended in a canyon as…
Sunapee in Winter
The lake is quiet, no motorboats and only an occasional snowmobile. Mallards congregate in the Sugar River near the exit of Lake Sunapee. Burkehaven Boatyard is covered with snow. Winter is a…