Tripod shot at dusk on the lava field.  Ten feet (3 m) from the molten lava.  The lava I was standing on was only an hour or so old but was cool enough that the rubber tripod tips did not melt or scorch.

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Twilight shot with tripod on top of my truck topper Fortunately, no police officers came by to ask what I was doing parked on the sidewalk.

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Intentionally shot with a higher than normal shutter speed to ensure some sharp airframe shots.

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Shot from halfway down the cliff above the beach.  Meanwhile a thief was trying to break into my rent car, with the rest of my gear in the trunk.  Lickily, someone drove up and ran the thief off by honking the horn.  Aways disable the remote trunk release on rent cars - especially in Hawaii.

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Shot in Uvalde, Texas.  

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The Olympus 1.4X-A teleconverter will not fit the Sigma telephoto unless one uses the extension tube to obtain clearance for the protruding teleconverter element.  The owlet was apparently successfully raised by his very attentive parents. 

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Shot with a strong red filter when I would have normally used a 15 (deep yellow),  but I left the 15 at home.

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Shot braced on the car window at dusk as the cranes returned to the refuge from a day of feeding.

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The contrast was reduced to a manageable level by the overcast sky.  The negative needed N+1 development and adjustment after scanning.

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Wide-open with a Zuiko 300/4.5 on a tripod.

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Shot at a typical shutter speed for jets.

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Practice shot made prior to a trip to Belgium and France.

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In happier times.  Columbia, commanded by Eileen Collins, returned to Earth on a hot August night in the light of a full moon.  I had five cameras set and got good exposures on two.

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The other image from that night.  Looking south from the banks of the Trinity River. About a 30 second exposure, lens aimed to exclude the full moon to the southeast.

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Available light (ballpark lights), 210 mm at 1/125 (manual) and f/4.  Using a monopod.  I was surprised by the accurate color rendition with this consumer film stock.

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Relatively large aperture for a high shutter speed attempting to stop the blossom's dance in the wind.

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Not quite a grab shot, as I waited for her eyes to move away from me before swinging up, focusing, and shooting.  Wide open aperture.

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Wide open aperture, monopod.  Spot metered on her face but I didn't take time to open up one stop, so she is a little dark in the original slide.

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Wide open aperture, monopod.  

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Wide open aperture, monopod.  

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Wide open aperture, monopod.  

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The view looking back at the Irish mainland from above the ghost town of Great Blasket Island.  Braced on a monopod. The image is cropped to a wide aspect ratio to eliminate extra and uninteresting grassy foreground.

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