Lake Clouds

Some interesting clouds hovering over a lake in upstate New York. Me and Josh came across this scene at sunrise after the ferry crossing from Vermont. Click to enlarge.

Various views of the capitol

Today's photos are several distant shots of the Nebraska State Capitol Building shot last winter. A couple are from the highway 77 overpass (we must have driven over that thing a dozen times to get the shot -- there is nowhere to safely stand on the bridge and film), and the other is from Pioneers Park. Click to enlarge.

More Elk

A couple more Elk from my last photo safari in Eastern Nebraska. Click to Enlarge.

Great Dun Fell

A distant radar dome atop Great Dun Fell in the Lake District of the United Kingdom. The Lake District is an incredible place. Click to enlarge.

Cranemania!

Today's photos are from a photo safari in eastern Nebraska (between Omaha and Lincoln, off I-80.) About as close as I'd ever gotten to a crane; these critters are less afraid of people on the safari, I guess. Beautiful birds. Click to enlarge.

Typical Vermont

Rumor has it that in Vermont, people don't build churches -- the churches just naturally spring up from the ground wherever a colorful forest can be found. Click to enlarge.

Sparse Shopping

Shot this last year in Leeds, UK -- this is the Corn Exchange building. It's no longer a retail outlet; today it's a restaurant. Yes, the whole damn thing. They were going to lease it out to multiple customers, but they could only find one. So until they find more, the whole thing belongs to one guy. Must feel like eating in a stadium!

That Fro!

>My good friend Josh, from when he came back to Lincoln last winter -- here's to hoping you make it back again this year, bro!

Misty Mountain

Shot from atop a mountain in Vermont -- we kept waiting for the cold clouds to stop rolling through until we realized we just needed to descend a bit to get below the cloud deck. Click to enlarge.

How Do You Like Dem

This is a good example of a photo that I never would have taken before I started marketing stock photography. This is the kind of silly thing that sells, for some reason.

The Island

This was shot in upstate New York -- just south of Plattsburgh, I believe, or wherever the ferry from Vermont drops you off. Quite a beautiful view just at sunrise. Click to enlarge.

Sweet!

I just noticed (via that deluge of comments) that my other blog, The Big Storm Picture was selected by Google as today's Blog of Note. Thanks, Google!

Derwent Water

Our friend Keith shows my wife Derwent Water in Cumbria, UK. This was an excellent overlook, even if it was a bit of a blustery and stormy day. England is a country of surprisingly diverse landscapes, considering its compact size. My wife will probably kill me for posting a wide angle photo with her at the edge of the frame. ;) Click to enlarge.

On a Hot Tin Roof

To be honest, I have no idea what I like so much about this shot. I took it in Vermont at a Cider House -- there was just something about the sheet-metal against the sky that caught my eye. Click to enlarge.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

My friend Josh multitasks as he drives me back to his place in Vermont. Don't try this at home, kids! Click to enlarge.

Elk

From a recent photo safari in eastern Nebraska. About as close to an elk as I've ever been! Click to enlarge.

Waiting

Today's photo is a candid of a man in Leeds, England. Click to enlarge.

JPG Issue 19

I have a photo essay in one of my favorite mags this month -- JPG magazine. Pretty exciting -- a lot of great stuff gets put into JPG, and it definately feels good to share the same pages with a whole host of excellent photographers.

Actual sign seen at a Nebraska Walmart

Yes, this is an actual sign seen at the Kearney, Nebraska Walmart on a Sunday night. No word if this also applies to alcohol, though we were tempted to bring a bottle up to checkout and find out.



BTW, there were actually two of these signs on the same shelf, about 10 feet apart. Here's the other one:

Lets Go For a Drive

Cumbria, England -- rural, beautiful, and eminently driveable! Click to enlarge.

Pheasants at Market

One of the more unusual (to an American, like me) aspects of a Farmers' Market in England is that they actually have rows of game bird hanging up for purchase. These fine specimen were found in Leeds last December. Click to enlarge.

Departures

Today's photo is from the Manchester, New Hampshire airport. It's funny, airports are actually pretty interesting places to photograph -- but I'm usually too busy headed to the terminal or the baggage or hither or tither to stop and take pictures. Click to enlarge.

Fog in the Adirondacks

Today's photo is another large panorama -- click it to enlarge it to ginormous size. This was shot in the Adirondacks of New York in October on a photo trip with my buddy, Josh. He'd always told me that fall was spectacular in the northeast, and he wasn't lying! Usually in a nature shot you hate to see things like ski lifts -- but in this case I actually like it, as it gives a sense of massive proportion. Cloudtopped mountains seemed to be a pretty common occurrence in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York.

Panorama from the Adirondacks

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A pano in the Adirondacks, near Au Sable Forks, New York. The original of this is around 17,000 pixels wide. Click to enlarge to really, really big.

Oh hai

"Are I under arrests?"

Pelicans?

Today's photos are of pelican-looking birds on a recent photo safari in Nebraska. What are these things? If you know, leave a comment -- I've Googled, but to no avail. Click any photo to enlarge.

Elkhorn

Today's photo is a closeup detail of an Elk's rack. Shot on a photo safari in Eastern Nebraska. Click to enlarge.

Oh hai just relaxin'

Today's photo is of another frog -- this one seemingly mired on a deserted island, surrounded by a sea of algae. Probably feels right at home. Click to enlarge -- this is one of those shots that doesn't look terribly interesting in the smaller view. :)

HEEEYYYYY BABY!

If an Elk could talk, that's what he'd be saying. This was shot on an animal safari here in Nebraska, and we seemed to arrive when all the Elk were in heat and shouting "Come get some!" at each other. This one seemed to misunderstand the species of our car. Click to enlarge.

Self portrait after shooting a wedding

Shooting a wedding takes it out of you. :) I shot this at the end of 6 straight hours of shooting -- over 3,000 photos taken. Slap down the tripod, turn on the timer, viola. This was a long exposure, with a flash at the end to freeze the ghosts. Click to enlarge.

Just Chillin'

Today's photo is of a frog I shot on a nearby photo Safari. You wouldn't think an algae covered lake could ever look homey, but this frog looks like he couldn't ask for more. Click to enlarge to 985px.

New Blog: The Big Storm Picture

Just a heads up that I'm launching a new blog. This one won't go away, and I will continue to update it with all types of my photography -- but the new blog will center entirely on storm photography. And because this is the year 2008 and most people have big monitors and love huge, juicy photos, everything posted to that blog will be roughly 1000 pixels wide. Come check out The Big Storm Picture at bigstormpicture.com. See you there!

Dangerous trio

So, the thing is, my friend Josh likes to hang around mens' rooms. Wait, that sounds wrong. What I mean is that he likes to sneak into bathrooms and take pictures. No, no, it's not like that. It's just a fetish he has about bathroom photography. My friend Lanette has the same fetish, so they figured they'd get together and... wait, I'm making a mess of this.



Some photographers (my self included) try to slip in a self portrait whereever they go, to remind them of the experience. Lanette has this thing where she shoots a snap inside a bathroom. Apparently, Josh decided that that idea was "awesome sauce", and they've been doing it ever since. I guess peer pressure got to me. :) This is from a shoot I went on with both of them last winter. Click to enlarge.

The fruits of a thousand miles of driving

Storm chasing in November? You betcha. Unfortunately, even after around 1,000 miles of roundtrip driving, this (and a couple other like it) is the only fruit of yesterday's chase into southeastern Kansas. Shot east of Wichita, this is the mammatus lit by sunset behind a dieing storm. Still, it's November... it's hard to complain. Click to enlarge to 950px.