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Happy Holidays 2009

Here are some links to stories and photo sets from my adventures of 2009:
Kayaking

Ichetucknee River – New Year’s Eve 2008
Sante Fe River – February
St. Augustine Beach – April
Ichetucknee River – April — Flood! (and manatees)
Ichetucknee River – April — Flood, part 2
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge – June (lots more manatees)
Ichetucknee River – October
Enoree and [...]


Night launch of Discovery

I was recently blessed with the opportunity to photograph the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery when it blasted off on a spectacular night launch on the STS-128 mission to the International Space Station. The above photo composition was taken from the beachfront boardwalk at a park in Marineland, Florida, about an hours drive due [...]


Succinct camera buying advice

Many of my readers now that being asked for camera buying advice is a somewhat regular occurence for me. Mike Johnston of The Online Photographer summed it up about as well and succinctly as I have ever read in one in a series of recent posts:
“But seriously, here’s how to buy a camera: figure out [...]


Happy Holidays 2008

Here are some links to stories and photo sets from my adventures of 2008:
Travel

South by Southwest Interactive conference 2008 – March
Buffalo/Niagara Falls – March
Gulf coast road trip – May
Fall color adventure – October

Kayaking

Kayaking Turkey Creek near Palm Bay with my brother Andy – Dec. 2007.
Ichetucknee River – New Year’s Eve 2007 – a.k.a. “Hernia Day.”
Ichetucknee [...]


Geotagging photos for Flickr with Mac OS X and a Garmin GPS

My photos from my bike club group ride and Ichetucknee River tubing adventure over the weekend were my first successful integration of photography, my recently-acquired GPS unit, and my quest for adventure.
Here’s the toolkit:

A Flickr account, naturally.
A digital camera, in this case it was my everything-proof Olympus Stylus 770 SW. This also works with RAW [...]


A tale of two lenses

It was a good weekend for butterflies in the garden. On summer weekends around the house, I usually keep my Canon Digital Rebel D-SLR by the front door (and therefore near the butterfly garden) with the Canon 75-300 zoom lens on it ready to go should my visual motion detector go off as I gaze [...]


This year’s most common butterfly sighting

The Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitionius) is the state butterfly of Florida. They used to be a rare sight in my butterfly garden, but this year are the most common sight so far. The Orange Cestrum (Cestrum aurantiacum) is the most popular plant in the garden so far this year too. It’s grown too big for [...]


My April “Photo Assignment” contribution

The photo was published as part of Derrick Story’s “Photo Assignment” gallery for April 2008, “Angular,” on The Digital Story web site.
View the photo on Flickr


Stop and shoot the flowers

Just a reminder that no matter how busy or hurried you are, you should always be willing to stop for a moment and listen to the call of the flowers. If you have your camera with you, that’s all the better.


Red Buckeyes and what they attract

Ruby throated hummingbird.
Cloudless Sulphur butterfly.


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