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December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.
December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse. Canon DLSR on tripod with remote timer taking a photo once every five minutes. Approximately 20 hours in 40 seconds.
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Joy! My next-door neighbors discovered a magnificent dragonfly on a hanging plant. It was kind of upside down and very still. I ran for my camera, and was able to get several good pictures. It never moved, although two of us and our cameras surrounded the poor little thing. Later, my neighbor moved the plant, [...]

Slideshow of pictures by my brother, David Crook

Creatures of Arizona Slideshow: David Crook’s trip from Phoenix, Arizona, United States to Tombstone was created by TripAdvisor. See another Tombstone slideshow. Take your travel photos and make a slideshow for free.

Recently I went to a nearby industrial park in Glendale that has some beautiful water birds. So far this fall I’ve only seen mallard ducks. This summer the pond was drained and left for awhile, and just recently did the mallards show up. I’m hoping the white-crested ducks make an appearance, and some gorgeous geese, [...]

It was a crazy, wonderful, beautiful day in the Greater Phoenix area. Clean, clear, and cool. I grabbed my rake and headed first for the front yard, where I cleaned up piles of pine needles I’d left last evening. It got dark too early and I had to quit raking.

Once I completed my work, I [...]

My brother, David Crook, is in Washington State, and got a wonderful shot of a dragonfly. I got him to send it to me so I could redigitize it, and here it is, in several renditions. The reason it looks so good is that his composition is perfect. And the clarity! They’re kind of hard [...]

I discovered Light Stalking on Twitter, and highly recommend it to photographers.
I just received an email that Light Stalking is offering a free eBook to help understand how best to work with your camera’s depth of field settings. And they say:
While there is absolutely no requirement that you do this, it would be great if [...]

4 Paws for Ability, an organization that trains service dogs to assist people who have developmental or physical disabilities, has accepted six-year-old Tyler Grieb to receive a service dog.
Tyler, son of Scott Grieb and Emily Nehus, has been diagnosed with autism, a mild seizure condition, and a rare brain disorder called agenesis of [...]

This just in from my sister, Jan Pierson, who lives in Olympia, Washington:
“Life in rainy Washington State isn’t always without its beauty and sunsets! I am blessed living on the bay and I know it.”
Jan is my gorgeous, talented younger sister who sometimes writes under the pen name Calamity Jan. She is [...]