january

Byrne & Carlson Chocolatier, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Book & Bar, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Going shopping, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Through Glass. 1/320s f/4.5 ISO200 shot at 53mm. It was a beautiful morning sky this morning and I was expecting another cloudy day. I wish I would have been up earlier to get out and catch the sunrise. It would have been miserable though close to below zero but I think it would have been...

50% off, Exeter, New Hampshire

Snow Caked 1/250s f/5.1 ISO200 at 108mm Last night it had rained a bit then turned into snow and was still snowing a little bit when I took the shot. I took a picture of this tree on the 1st but with the snow stuck to the tree I just had to get another shot of it.

Into The Mist This was fun to take and process. Although it didn't come out how I wanted it to. I think this is a 8 or 9 image stitch, was aiming for a monstrous 18 image but one of the mini stitches (4 images) wasn't playing well with the others so I have this one and another 6 image stitch.

Cocheco Mills, Dover, New Hampshire

Clark's Creamery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Half Froze. 1/400 sec f/6.3 ISO200 and shot at 150mm. Just wandering around our property and noticed the little creek that runs through part of it was frozen over. So I went down there and was looking around seeing if anything spoke to me, then I saw this little leaf half frozen. I took a...

Richdale Food Stores, Newburyport, Massachusetts

Hanging Around. 1/200 sec f4.6 ISO200 shot at 66mm of the 40-150. Taking the picture wasn't the hard part. The hard part was choosing which one to use. I chose this one because I like the perspective and the fact that its January and this set of leaves is still hanging on.

D Square Java, Exeter, New Hampshire

My last photo for SIJ. My apologies to everyone for having really slacked off. I was going home from work, walking down to the underground garage. This is a reflection shot off one of those mirrors/reflectors placed around the corner of stairwells, so that people don't run into each other. Or...

The clouds were very dramatic that night. Although you can't see it as well due to the B&W conversion. I took this photo with the "pro low light" mode in the X10. It was night time, very low light. Even with the "pro low light" mode and ISO 3200, the shutter speed was 1/9...

The hallway leading to my office on the 32nd floor. My office is the very last door at the end of the hallway. The place is a mess. I switched to that office about a year ago. But haven't unpacked everything yet!

Converted this one to black and white. This photo was taken from the same place I took the Day 7 photo -- Houston Arboretum. I really liked the reflections on this one. If I had a polarizer, it would have worked better. Next time.

Catching up on my slackerness now! Photo from my office looking onto the freeway. So much for "free" way eh? Lots of traffic. And yes, I was able to recreate the white discs on this long exposure photo! :)

Dogs looking like their 'masters' Well I wish I had his Steiff-brand cuteness, but alas I work with what I have...and what both time and I have done to myself.:blush: But Dougal well and truly symbolises me at this point in the challenge. A little tired, a little dishevelled and with...

Finish lines.

Snow Driven.

A fragment of my Canberra postcard I was going to treat you all to a postcard of my home city...well the city I have to go to daily to win our bread. The 180 degree panorama came out quite OK, but far too small to share, so here is a snippet - of a little less than 90 degrees that takes in...

A moment's reflection Thought I'd try a pretty iconic image of mornings on my property - and I do apologise for the emphasis on my place this month.:blush: This is a pretty typical Summer's morning, low lying cloud - well comparatively as we are well over 900 metres above sea level - with a...

North Pole.

Shapes.

Light Crush I clock the 28th up to being quite a good day photographically. Had three sessions with a total of about 400 frames with about 60% keepers and another 20% potential from the rest. Not saying this is the best of the day - far from it - but it was the biggest surprise for me from...

Meeting center waiting for some action.

Asparagus field waiting for some action.

Cracks to the sky Sorry folks. Slim pickings yesterday I'm afraid. Weather was miserable as was my humour...especially after I saw what was on offer on my card. So you'll have to indulge what small excitement I had in examining the form of this budding Gladioli - having said that I do enjoy...

The real deal A few days back I showed off my little boy, Sebastian, who fancies himself to be a bull, but here is the real deal. This is a new addition to the area. He's not ours but our neighbours, who has kindly offered his services. Well I liked the look for him from the safety of the...

Sunrise over the range I warned you all that with my limited windows of opportunity to shoot that there would be a few sunrises for y'all to contend with. Well here's the sight I sipped my coffee to yesterday morning.

Broadside strokes Just the single frame so this had to be it I'm afraid. Am I happy with it? Well not completely. But having recently re-read Freeman Patterson's "Photography and the Art of Seeing" I thought I'd try one of his Exercises in Thinking Sideways - so I intentionally broke...

Shadow of a budding bull Well I suppose Sebastian can wish as much as he likes but a very tight elastic ring applied when he was much younger has precluded the fact that he'll never quite be a bull. Though it appears so though someone has neglected to tell him as he acts more bullish by the...

No milk today.

A panorama roof in winter.

Maastricht Court

Danger

Bell #11

Temptation in the wilderness Ironic isn't it? We have an orchard near the house which we prune, feed and generally tend very carefully the yield of fruit again this year approximates...well zero!!! Now today we head down to the creek - about 1/2 a mile from the house and what do we find...

Burning through the fog Was a relief that it was the weekend so I could shoot in earnest, but it was dreadful weather. Sat in a cloud for most of the day. Just glad I snuck this shot early in the morning as the sun struggled to burn through the fog. It almost made it too...but the cloud...

A study in rust In the dying light these rusty tins took on a weird hue. Funny thing to post-process is rust, so much more going on in the colour channels than first meets the eye. So kept the processing down to a minimum with small tweaks to the curves, contrast and saturation....as...

Testing 1, 2, 3, testing So little personal time to look let alone see. As I'm reconnecting with my other compadres on the challenge. I thought I'd show how I talk with all you folks. I'm rural so am completely dependant on a wireless connection - not sure what this "ADSL&quot...

A room with a view.

This is where I draw the line.

Shadowplay.

Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do Last day of leave today. Back to work tomorrow :dash2: So we thought we'd end on a high note and went for a quick drive to the coast - not a short trip from the farm...but a world away from what's in-store for us tomorrow. Didn't bag as many...

Of blacks and whites.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

Mum says if I drink all my nectar I'll be big and brown too one day OK the PL25 aint really one for macro shots, but I thought this one turned out quite OK - well I more liked it for the story. :blush: Cropped the image a little, to balance the composition, but otherwise you're seeing the...

Impressions of the Aussie bush I'd committed to attempting an impressionistic landscape - without reverting to extreme presets, unsharp masks, drastic noise reduction or the like. So I was going for natural tones and hues that gave that soft landscape look - not so easy with an Australian bush...