Future plans

Alright! How's everyone doing?! Spring is here whether we like it or not, the birds are singing, and the buds are sprouting. If your a nature/wildlife photographer it's time to get out there and shoot. I have made plans to visit the Rockys. A place I love dearly in the winter and now will experience it in the spring season. I can't wait to see what it looks like when it isn't snowing! Only a few short months until I take flight. In the mean time shall we get back to it? 

Time to get back in the groove y'all!

Open Your Hearts

My good friend Josh Bradley donates his talent and time to a local animal rescue. He recently photographed a set of puppies horribly burned in a house fire and they are in need of our help. You can read more on his site here. Please open your hearts and wallets to help save lives in need by donating directly or through Josh's site. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and theirs.

*UPDATE* Great job all! We hit the $15,000.00 mark! These puppies are now on the road to recovery. Thank you to all who donated and helped save the lives of these defenseless individuals.

Creating a 500px page

I strive to bring you all not only my most current work, but my best work of all time. I have decided to create a 500px page to put it out there. Cutting images even if it hurts! I will be periodically updating it slowly sharing some great images. Stay tuned to the page and look for the logo on the upper right of the page.

Their first snow day

I Couldn't think of a better way to celebrate this first real snow storm here in the northeast than with pictures of my newest family members first snow day!

Stella

Tucker

Pure excitement!

These puppies were adopted by us and given a new home. They were rescued from puppy mills where they were used for breeding. Tucker has an adorable face, but his teeth unfortunately were the result of abuse. However they are the most adorable pups and we are happier then ever to have them :-)

On a photographic note I gotta say photographing pups isn't easy. It was sleeting while we were out and getting a clean background in a small yard was difficult. You have to balance ISO and shutter speed. At any moment they can sprint. As you can tell in the last image I missed focus, but it was just too great not to share. I did however pop the flash off for some fill. I found the images just looked better and added a catch light to most images. Even though the snow adds fill light it didn't seem to be enough.

One last thing I want to mention when speaking of rescuing animals and helping a good cause my good friend and great photographer Josh Bradley is still selling his images at a great price with all the proceeds going to the rescue organization. Please check it out, I promise you won't be disappointed.

Barnegat black and white

I don't convert to black and white often, but when Nik color efex pro had a b&w filter by default and it looked good I decided to dump it into silver eFex pro and give it a go!

For both images I used the filter that had high structure and contrast. I also dialed in a red filter to make the sky pop and slightly lowered the structure. When editing them in color I used a polarization filter. Not a substitute for a real polarizer, but like an ass I left it in the car :-)

How about that sky?