Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, originally uploaded by Jersey Rich.

Merry Christmas to everyone. One important fact to remember is the Jesus is the reason for the season.

This was a time exposure. I triggered the camera with the remote and had it set to a long exposure time. This was strictly by trial and error. After I got the exposure time nailed down, I started playing with drawing various shapes. I tried to imagine a big poster board mounted in front of me and knew that this would be one long line of light. I was pretty happy with the results. Enjoy your holdiays......God Bless All!!!

A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree?

A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree?, originally uploaded by Jersey Rich.

Winter finally arrived. We had an ice storm that coated everything. This plant was heavily coated with ice. Many of the plants would break and parts of them would fall off when you touched them. I was able to capture a lot of good shots. Later in the afternoon the sun broke thru the clouds and the beautiful ice was gone within a half an hour.

Looking into the Sun

Looking into the Sun, originally uploaded by Jersey Rich.

I only wish that I had a wider angle lens to capture the entire circle. This was shot using a Tamron 18-200 looking straight up. I keep the grid display turned on in my D80 so that I can try to align items such as this one.

Shy

This was from our recent trip to Florida. Taken in the Animal Kingdom at Disney, I found this guy/girl? off in a corner of the pond. I retouched and increased the saturation, added a blur filter, and increased the contrast to bring out the black in the beak and also darken the background shadows.