All right...months later....

A couple from the previous weekend. I've hardly taken my macro lens off the camera, and since getting the teleconverter it is almost always with it:

This little red spider/mite was running on something else. I put it on this leaf and spent a good few minutes chasing it all over.


The female horsefly, this is the part that hurts when they bite...



You're never too far from one...



I'm always on the lookout for these little guys. It's really helpful when they sit still

Back from a long weekend in Chicago

We returned with very sore feet but had a great time. We got to a variety of places and I took a lot of photos. I find I tend towards black and white a lot in urban photos. A sampling below:

Quinn was very helpful


In case you needed direction








Spy or secret agent?


Obviously black and white wouldn't have really worked here...

Again...some time since last post...I again struggle to update this site, but will get better at it. Not sure why I worry about it, it's primarily for me anyway...

From a recent shoot at the Olbrich gardens:


and



and as a departure, a couple from a wedding recently (in November) photographed:

Not a lot from this last week

He can be quite expressive for a toy with a few movable parts...



And a view up State on a cold day

I'm planning this year to shoot more people

But not in a bad way I hope...

From a recent flickrmeet where we had some willing subjects:
Shelly






and Celeste

New year, new attempt at posting more often....

Outside the windows this morning everything had a coating of ice...except for some reason the car. I guess that's because I didn't have to drive anywhere early today.





And just so it doesn't seem that I'm only posting icy trees now...we sort of developed the tradition of Santa bringing our daughter new slippers for Christmas, and having something else she wanted wearing them. This year she wanted a Domo (not sure why) and though these boot slippers were a little too big for it...it's in them...

Quite a storm over the last day...that was a lot of shoveling, I managed to take a break to get some shots

I haven't posted much lately...something's been bugging me though...

I haven't taken as many shots lately, but this guy showed up recently and sat still enough for me to mess around with the extension tubes and radio triggered Sunpak.

Ok...I remembered again that I have this site here to update...

I found these odd Star Wars toys in a bookstore. Even though they smell horribly of smoke I had to take them. Why anyone decided to make a run of Star Wars characters on Motorcycles I'll never know. But they gave me a reason to get my lightbox out of the basement.

Back to the nature of things

Still working through files from vacation last month.

Yondota falls. I really wish the rain had held off a little longer here. These falls extend quite a distance with drops and bends. Here I was laying on the rocks using more rocks to support the camera. I'd already stowed the tripod since the rain started up again and it wouldn't have opened low enough anyway.



Jackson B. Frog. There were a good number of these guys. I found them accidentally just as I almost stepped on one. I was heading to take photos of water through a dam and saw something jump. I think it's wishing I was gone.

A couple of close ups from our trip up north. Here two mushrooms I happened to catch in time before destroyed either by feet or time.

A couple from the weekend

I didn't intend both to be black and white but it just turned out that way...

A shot from the Bobaflex set at Taste of Madison event last weekend:


and one from Caroline's Spine:

Ever feel like you are being watched?

Up close on death

Well that's where they get the stuff...

I'm finally starting to get to processing my files from vacation. This was one of many mushrooms I tried to get down to their levels with. I had to lay on the hill and wait for the sun, clouds and trees to cooperate. There is a good bit of softness to the image but it's what I was going for. A shallow depth of field with magnification and grasses in the vicinity that would be out of focus. I did a little sharpening in post but not that much.

Fireworks from July

I'd been meaning to post up a couple of these...Fireworks over Elver Park in Madison

Again...haven't posted anything here in a while...

From a recent walk on Langdon St. in Madison.

Getting later

Getting later, originally uploaded by Ʀαdio Ϛilϵncϵ (was ssqwilson).

It's an older one but thought it might like a spot on this page

Abandonment and Decay

I recently had the opportunity to go on a ride with a couple of very skilled photographers I've met at flickrmeets to shoot abandoned buildings. First it makes you look for the interesting or beautiful in total crapheaps. Then periodically I was left wondering, "Just what happened here?" There are often partly packed rooms left as they are. Others are clearly a dwelling that was cleared but never re-occupied and animals or partiers found their way in. I decided ahead of time that most of these were going to be b&w. It seemed that would be the medium best suited. But the trunk below offered interesting contrasts with the rust and other stains that I decided to keep the color.