|
All of the images on this page were shot with my old Sony DSC F-707. This was basically my first camera so the images here are the oldest ones I have. They are from late 2002 through 2003. I shot about 5000 images with this camera and these are a few favorites out of those, excluding storm images during that time. I should have placed these back on the site long ago. Some of these with a lot of detail have been compressed a lot. I don't like to have them over 100k on here since bandwidth will quickly become an issue with so many. Storms are much easier to compress and get to a small file size since they usually won't have as much detail as other scenes. Jon here back when he was in better shape, lol. To get the shot I'd wait till he wasn't paying attention and then run away, diving into the tall grass. Then roll over and get ready as he'd come flying for me. I remember it really sucked having a camera with such a crappy shutter delay(but was half used to it at the time since that was all I had--boy is life much better now with rather instant shutters). It would take about a second or so so I'd guess early and hold it there. I had several of his butt going by the side of the frame.
|
|
It's a bird taking off.
|
|
|
|
8 second exopsure @ F8 of the Cargill plant on a cold windy night. Thanks to the stupid fence I could only shoot over it, between it and the powerlines above...always getting one or the other or both in the shot.
|
|
This was often fun. The camera is mounted to my driver's side window as I drive. That is how I got the image on my "bio" page.
|
|
This was a very sweet cloud deck that moved in at night with the full moon still shining brightly above it. I should post another image of it as the deck arrives. It was perfectly clear before this wall moves rapidly se.
|
|
Bald Eagles at Desoto Refuge in western IA. I've only seem them around here that year.
|
|
Snow geese at Desoto Refuge in western IA.
|
|
Canadian Geese, Desoto Refuge.
|
|
The moon is mostly obscured behind the clouds, but not fully. I could see where that would appear fake, and inserted with photoshop, but it's not, it is real. Since these were all shot as JPGs I didn't have to do a whole lot to them. These with the moon, nothing was done to them.
|
|
|
|
Half moon shining through fog, above the Cargill plant in the winter.
|
|
Sunrise in winter. This was posted on photosig long ago and some thought it was fake because it was blown out above the sun's disc. Their thinking was it should have blown out where the disc was as well, or before it blew out above. All I can say is it is real, and I've never seen it look like that before(it looked very strange in person). Obviously there is an area of thicker cirrus clouds where the sun is than there is just above it where it is blowing out. If one follows that thicker area of cirrus you can see that it lines up perfectly to where it starts to blow out(above that line).
|
|
A peeping squirrel at my old appartment. This is shot out my kitchen window.
|
|
Someone who never looks up may say that can't be real...it is. You can see this happen sometimes just before dawn or after sunset, this was just before the sunrise. Now this would be pretty cool had it been a new moon. You could then do a fairly long exposure and not have it blow out, making it look like a normal full moon.
|
|
More long exposures of the plant, though this one I was trying to do it and get the sunrise with it. Well, all you can get are the very first colors of a sunrise. You can barely see the reds in the background.
|
|
Brilliant sunrise, new years day, 2003.
|
|
The one and only time I've ever seen this happen since I've lived here. The plant steam never does anything even close to this. Usually it evaporates very quickly. This day, right after a snowstorm, the air warmed a bit and things must have just been amazingly saturated, yet still cool...but not too cool. Everything that came out this day just did not want to evaporate at all...extremely rare! These clouds being created by the plant went on for many many MILES. The area was in control by high pressure behind the storm and there wasn't a cloud in the sky...just these odd plant created clouds. Hell I worked down there for many years, there each morning and all day, and never once saw anything trying to do this.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is where I run my parent's dogs each night. This area reminds me of the scene in "What Dreams May Come" for some reason(or close to it by Nebraska standards).
|
|
Summer sunsets around here can be very cool right where the sun is at. High moisture content makes it very red, much more than in this image sometimes. I soooo need to get me a big telephoto lens so the disc fills most of the frame.
|
