Category Archives: Travel

Living In Florida Doesn’t Suck!

I spent Sunday evening walking North Beach at Ft. Desoto park.  The tide was low enough that I could walk all the way around the tip and back over the mud flats.  The hazy sky in the West, filtering the late day sun, made for some beautiful light, especially looking back towards a very different...

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Ed - Laurie, you don’t do yourself justice with the “Photographer” title you are truely an artist and the Nikon is merely a brush!
What beautiful shots! (the fact that I’m commenting on these two shots and not the models makes me sad in a way. I’m getting old)

Got a chance to pick up a D2Xs from a`wedding photographer in Miami who had just upgraded to a D3S and needed cash. Now I’ll unload my D70s and the kit lenses which I haven’t used since I got decent glass.

If you have a list of basic settings you can suggest for the D2 I’d be thankful if you’d pass them along. I’m really happy with it, much more so than my D300 It’s really user friendly and the transition is easy from the 70 > 300 > D2Xs thanks to Nikon engineering.

Hi to Dave and a pet for Nikon!
EdJuly 26, 2010 – 6:42 pm

LME - Thanks Ed! Congrats on the D2X. It’s a great camera! Even though I have the D3S, I still use the 2X regularly. As for settings…it all depends on the subject and how you want to interpret it. There’s no right or basic settings. If you can narrow it down to a specific type of shot, I’m happy to share how I would approach it.August 1, 2010 – 3:56 am

2011 Florida Forever Calendar

I just received news that one of my images has been selected for the 2011 Florida Forever calendar.  The calendar highlights ecosystems from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s priority acquisition list. Florida Forever is Florida’s premiere conservation and land acquisition program.  The program replaced Preservation 2000, the largest public land acquisition program of it’s...

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A Lazy Saturday Afternoon on the Hillsboro River

I should have spent the day catching up on work but the day was too perfect to be spent indoors.  Instead, we spent some time in the canoe floating down the Hillsboro River. Note: This slideshow feature is new.  Please let me know if it’s not working properly.

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Simon - Slideshow looks great on the page, but a bit lo-res on my 24″ iMac screen. Great pics, too!March 28, 2010 – 8:47 am

Shannon - Wow! It was a great day for this and you captured it! Very cool!March 28, 2010 – 6:05 pm

LME - Thanks Simon and Shannon!

Simon, I have to size the images for those with smaller monitors. However, the software that’s crunching the images for the flash slide show is doing something funky. I’ll have to play around with it a bit. Some images are looking too soft while others appear over-sharpened. Hopefully, I can find a happy medium. Thanks for the feedback!March 28, 2010 – 6:09 pm

Colorado Trip-Adobe Badlands

I’m still working through the images I made on a recent trip to Colorado.  Here’s the next installment. Just outside Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is Gunnison Conservation Area. It falls under the Bureau of Land Management and appears to be largely ignored in favor of it’s National Park neighbor. The badlands area...

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Melissa - I just wanted to say I found your site clicking randomly in someone elses blog… and I am in love! Adding you to my blog roll, and will be back to ohhhh and ahhhh over your beautiful pictures! Incredible.March 17, 2010 – 9:32 am

Colorado Trip-Great Sand Dunes National Park

Great Sand Dunes National Park-Rising as high as 750 feet from the valley floor, these are the largest dunes in North America. Renewed by every gust of wind or passing storm, changing mood every minute as sunlight dances across the ridges, it’s a sight to behold.

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Velvet - Wow! This is gorgeous!October 8, 2009 – 7:11 pm