Welcome to July's POD gallery. The POD galleries give me an oppertunity to do what I do best and that's shoot Creative Photographs and show them off to the public, clients and a select group of highly trained professional photographers who belong to the Daily Photo Community at SmugMug for Critique purposes which gives me a good idea of how well I have created the message the image was supposed to relay to your eyes.
Hopefully I'll display some colorful ideas I create through out the month once again and also since this is a very Patriotic time of the year. But then again you never know what you'll see here so check back every day for my creations. As always your comments & critiques are welcome and appreciated. ~Bill~
Hopefully I'll display some colorful ideas I create through out the month once again and also since this is a very Patriotic time of the year. But then again you never know what you'll see here so check back every day for my creations. As always your comments & critiques are welcome and appreciated. ~Bill~
It was so interesting & prosperous the last 24 hrs. for photographs for me it was hard to choose what was going up for the POD today. Funny how some days you have NOTHING & others turn out treasure troves. I got some many really good shots but after thinking about it I know everyone loves a good lightning shot so here it is. We had a fantastic storm late last night, the whole house shook & rattled for hours. Funny thing is I sat in my office all night never thinking of setting up the camera until late. This shot was accomplished by setting the D300 on INTERVAL TIMER shots, set shutter for 10 seconds exposure at f/14 ISO 400 and then set to pop every 11 seconds meaning the shutter was only closed for 1 second then opened for 10 again until 99 frames were shot (doing the math that's 1 capture every 11 seconds for 15 min. worth of work), manual focus to infinity. This was one of the better ones since the lightning crossed the whole sky and filled the frame nicely so here it is. *From what's in the news today one of the these strikes killed 1 person and injured 2 on Sandy Hook beach and 5 mor epeople struck in Hicksville NY just north of here so I better start being more careful with this stuff ;)
I have a TON of great Squirrel shots and also some interesting ACTION shots while I was driving and snapping the shots off while moving LOL (Don't worry I was TRAINED to do these kinds of things while moving) and I'm very safe about it, always have at least one hand on the wheel using continuous focus and the steering wheel as a tripod. So I'll put those together later in my overflow gallery or the animal gallery to show off, some real quality shots (if I don't say so myself LOL) but i think you'll like them (Especially MOM4SQUIRRELS who gave me the inspiration for the images).
BTW: For those of you who registered to vote for my images in the NJ Photo Contest (THANK YOU SO MUCH) and I wanted to tell you I submitted a few more images so if you have time to stop over and drop another couple votes I would be thrilled. The link is here GREAT DESTINATIONS NJ just seach my name, you may leave comments as well, from what I understand in the rules they HELP a lot since it's a PUBLIC VOTE contest along with clikcing on I LOVE IT tab before voting the I DIG IT tab ;) Thanks guys !
Hope everyone had a great weekend, sorry most of you will return to work tomorrow - Ahh this is where being retired & your own boss is NICE ;)
~Bill~
7/27/08 - I've just added 14 NEW images in my EXTRAS GALLERY HERE if you'd like to take a look see and almost 60 Images to my BRAND NEW
SQUIRRELS & BIRDS GALLERY HERE Hope you enjoy it "MOM" !!!
I have a TON of great Squirrel shots and also some interesting ACTION shots while I was driving and snapping the shots off while moving LOL (Don't worry I was TRAINED to do these kinds of things while moving) and I'm very safe about it, always have at least one hand on the wheel using continuous focus and the steering wheel as a tripod. So I'll put those together later in my overflow gallery or the animal gallery to show off, some real quality shots (if I don't say so myself LOL) but i think you'll like them (Especially MOM4SQUIRRELS who gave me the inspiration for the images).
BTW: For those of you who registered to vote for my images in the NJ Photo Contest (THANK YOU SO MUCH) and I wanted to tell you I submitted a few more images so if you have time to stop over and drop another couple votes I would be thrilled. The link is here GREAT DESTINATIONS NJ just seach my name, you may leave comments as well, from what I understand in the rules they HELP a lot since it's a PUBLIC VOTE contest along with clikcing on I LOVE IT tab before voting the I DIG IT tab ;) Thanks guys !
Hope everyone had a great weekend, sorry most of you will return to work tomorrow - Ahh this is where being retired & your own boss is NICE ;)
~Bill~
7/27/08 - I've just added 14 NEW images in my EXTRAS GALLERY HERE if you'd like to take a look see and almost 60 Images to my BRAND NEW
SQUIRRELS & BIRDS GALLERY HERE Hope you enjoy it "MOM" !!!
It was so interesting & prosperous the last 24 hrs. for photographs for me it was hard to choose what was going up for the POD today. Funny how some days you have NOTHING & others turn out treasure troves. I got some many really good shots but after thinking about it I know everyone loves a good lightning shot so here it is. We had a fantastic storm late last night, the whole house shook & rattled for hours. Funny thing is I sat in my office all night never thinking of setting up the camera until late. This shot was accomplished by setting the D300 on INTERVAL TIMER shots, set shutter for 10 seconds exposure at f/14 ISO 400 and then set to pop every 11 seconds meaning the shutter was only closed for 1 second then opened for 10 again until 99 frames were shot (doing the math that's 1 capture every 11 seconds for 15 min. worth of work), manual focus to infinity. This was one of the better ones since the lightning crossed the whole sky and filled the frame nicely so here it is. *From what's in the news today one of the these strikes killed 1 person and injured 2 on Sandy Hook beach and 5 mor epeople struck in Hicksville NY just north of here so I better start being more careful with this stuff ;)
I have a TON of great Squirrel shots and also some interesting ACTION shots while I was driving and snapping the shots off while moving LOL (Don't worry I was TRAINED to do these kinds of things while moving) and I'm very safe about it, always have at least one hand on the wheel using continuous focus and the steering wheel as a tripod. So I'll put those together later in my overflow gallery or the animal gallery to show off, some real quality shots (if I don't say so myself LOL) but i think you'll like them (Especially MOM4SQUIRRELS who gave me the inspiration for the images).
BTW: For those of you who registered to vote for my images in the NJ Photo Contest (THANK YOU SO MUCH) and I wanted to tell you I submitted a few more images so if you have time to stop over and drop another couple votes I would be thrilled. The link is here GREAT DESTINATIONS NJ just seach my name, you may leave comments as well, from what I understand in the rules they HELP a lot since it's a PUBLIC VOTE contest along with clikcing on I LOVE IT tab before voting the I DIG IT tab ;) Thanks guys !
Hope everyone had a great weekend, sorry most of you will return to work tomorrow - Ahh this is where being retired & your own boss is NICE ;)
~Bill~
7/27/08 - I've just added 14 NEW images in my EXTRAS GALLERY HERE if you'd like to take a look see and almost 60 Images to my BRAND NEW
SQUIRRELS & BIRDS GALLERY HERE Hope you enjoy it "MOM" !!!
I have a TON of great Squirrel shots and also some interesting ACTION shots while I was driving and snapping the shots off while moving LOL (Don't worry I was TRAINED to do these kinds of things while moving) and I'm very safe about it, always have at least one hand on the wheel using continuous focus and the steering wheel as a tripod. So I'll put those together later in my overflow gallery or the animal gallery to show off, some real quality shots (if I don't say so myself LOL) but i think you'll like them (Especially MOM4SQUIRRELS who gave me the inspiration for the images).
BTW: For those of you who registered to vote for my images in the NJ Photo Contest (THANK YOU SO MUCH) and I wanted to tell you I submitted a few more images so if you have time to stop over and drop another couple votes I would be thrilled. The link is here GREAT DESTINATIONS NJ just seach my name, you may leave comments as well, from what I understand in the rules they HELP a lot since it's a PUBLIC VOTE contest along with clikcing on I LOVE IT tab before voting the I DIG IT tab ;) Thanks guys !
Hope everyone had a great weekend, sorry most of you will return to work tomorrow - Ahh this is where being retired & your own boss is NICE ;)
~Bill~
7/27/08 - I've just added 14 NEW images in my EXTRAS GALLERY HERE if you'd like to take a look see and almost 60 Images to my BRAND NEW
SQUIRRELS & BIRDS GALLERY HERE Hope you enjoy it "MOM" !!!