I've been drawn to nature photography since I got my
first camera at somewhere around age eight, and by now,
I think I'm starting to get kind of good at it.
My online gallery has
pictures spanning more than 25 years. (The
gallery was last updated 1/27/02.)
Plans are in process for making fine art prints of
these photographs available for online ordering, but
that goal has not yet come to fruition. (For that
matter, an expansion and general overhaul of the
gallery is in the works.) If you want publication
rights to any image,
contact me. I have sometimes granted
publication rights at no charge. Images can be
made available in digital form at much higher
resolution than seen here.
Formerly, there were a couple of other collections of non-fine-art
photographs online here: some from a trip to Saline Valley, and
some from the 2000 annual How Berkeley Can You Be? parade.
Both have now been taken offline for reasons of space. And
irrelevance.
I sometimes participate in the LiveJournal
Photo Contest community, where photographers
attempt each week to produce the best image they can on
a given theme announced in advance. (That page will take a long time to download if
you're on dialup.) Here are a few images I've come up
with for some past themes:
For those who may be photo-equipment geeks, here's what I
shoot with: Through 2006, I used semi-vintage Olympus SLRs
-- I got them off of Ebay and have spares for when one breaks.
(I've used up about one and a half bodies.) My most-used
lens was a Tokina superzoom that I'm sure any real professional
would sneer at. Its flaws are mostly at the telephoto
end. The oldest pictures were shot with an all-mechanical
classic: the Pentax K1000. I used to use the Kodak PhotoCD
service to digitize the pictures, but it went downhill so I got
an Acer film scanner. (Which comes with a world of
color-management headaches included free.) I mainly used
Fuji slide films. For everyday snapshottery I used a Canon
A60 digital -- two whole megapixels. The "photocontest"
shots above all came from that camera.
In 2007 I said goodbye to shooting with film, and got a Pentax
K10D ten megapixel SLR. My main lenses for it are a Sigma
17-70 Macro and a Pentax DA 50-200 telephoto. I also have
a couple of pre-digital Pentax lenses. At some point
I expect to get a DA 12-24 super-wide, and a longer telephoto.
None of the pictures from this new camera have been put into the
gallery yet.
