Ms. Sydney Belle

ISO 400 40mm lens f/8 @ 1/125th of a second shutter  lighting supplemented by a camera top mounted Sunpak Flash unit.

Sydney is our Chow Chow, she is not a fan of photography and it is not easy to get a photograph of her but every once in a while you get lucky 

Nancy's necklace 10/2011

This is Nancy's newest necklace creation that has yet to be named, I shot it under studio lighting condition with a 100mm Macro Lens.

ISO 200 f/18  1/125th of a second  100mm Macro Lens

Teddy Bear

From my iPhone 

Nikki Bean

ISO 1000 f/2.5  1/15th of a second 38mm lens  existing light from a table lamp 

In The Glass

ISO 200 f/11 1/125th of a second  100mm Macro Lens  Studio Lighting Conditions

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ISO 200 f/11 1/125th of a second 100mm Macro Lens 

Along the Road: In the Rain

I like taking black and white photographs, while color gives you a "real life" perspective, there is nothing quite like the power this scene represents when displayed in this format.

The color image of this same photograph is below so that you can see what I mean.

ISO 400 f/11 1/80th of a second 40mm lens

Along the Road: Clift in the Rain

28 August 2011 will be known as the day that 

Hurricane Irene passed through Vermont leaving 

in her wake considerable destruction.  

This is what I was able to capture about today.

ISO 400 f/11 1/80th of a second 40mm lens

Route 30 Townshend, Vermont

Taking Photographs in my studio

Today was a slow day so I was able to catch up on some photographs that needed to be taken for Nancy.

The Studio

The Piece

ISO 200 f/14  1/125th of a second 85mm lens  Studio Lighting

Nancy's Necklace: Meld

ISO 200 f/14 1/10th of a second  75mm lens under studio lighting conditions

Azteca Bead Embroidered Collar by Jennifer Chasalow VanBenschoten

ISO 200 f/16 1/160th of a second 85mm lens, studio lighting conditions

Normally when I post photographs of bead work it is from a single source, my 

enormously talented wife Nancy. 

 This time the artists is Jennifer Chasalow VanBenschoten,  

 as you can see she is very a talented.  

Me and My Shadow

ISO 400 200mm lens f/8 1/500th of a second

This afternoon while returning home I was traveling on Vermont Route 149 near the New York border, I saw in a field off the side of the road a female deer, she appear to be alone as I got closer I found this was not the case.  It is not to unusual to see deer in this area, even in the middle of the day, what was different was the fact that these two were with her.  A mother and twin fawns, it is rare to see twin white tail deer, many don't survive due to allot of reasons but these two where happy and healthy.  May be a little to adventurous when mother deer saw me she turned and went back into the woods, these two came within 25 feet of me standing on the side of the road.  After taking several photographs I said the them "shouldn't you two go find your mother"  and this is what happened.  

Today was a good day!!!!!!

Mom and the twins

Nancy's Necklace: Color Play III Golden Olive

ISO 200 75mm Lens  f/10  1/125th of a second Studio lighting conditions

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ISO 200  135mm lens  f/9.0  1/125th of a second

Studio lighting conditions

Nancy's Necklace; Regency

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ISO 200 f/8.0  1/13th of a second 75mm lens under studio lighting conditions

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Nancy's Galaxy: Another View

ISO 200 f/9  1/125 of a second  75mm  Studio Lighting conditions

Nancy's Necklace: Galaxy

ISO 200 f/10 1/125th of a second 75mm  Studio lighting conditions