Snake Eyes

Here is the common garter snake, to my knowledge this is the only kind of snake I have ever seen up here this side of the island. They are nasty little buggers......no they do not bite they just stink, when they are startled they activate musk glands that extrude a little white paste that is so stinky its nasty. I seen this guy just before I ran him over so I hopped out lied down and shot him with the cam before he slithered off into the grass off the road. I had my 18-55 kit lens on and this is about as close as one can focus, I cropped it slightly after that to zoom in more and that is about it. Wish we had some more snakes around here they are beautiful creatures i would love to do more shots of them one day.

First kiss

Here is a real gem of a picture, The first time we had a kid we did not take enough pictures so second time around I over did it lol, but that led to some amazing shots like this one. This was about 5 minutes after George met his little brother for the first time and gave him a big kiss. Memories like these get me all soft and fuzzy inside witch is why I must stress to anyone reading this take pictures of your kids they wont stay small forever!!! I really do not have to much to say about the photo nothing fancy or special here just love and affection is all, family is so important nowadays it seems like we all forget that so please capture your children and loved ones these memories can last forever if you take care.......................and if anyone was wondering I have been having computer problems again so its been awhile but she is back up and running now so watch out for some fresh updates coming your way!

The Golden Hour

MMMMM you put the crab in the bucket? yes you do! One early April morning I went for a little drive and came across this gem of a setting, a perfect sunrise on a super low tide what a good day to be crabbing and let me assure you the man in the picture was filling his bucket with ease this day. what a good way to spend the morning outside instead of sitting around the house. The exposure is a tad out of focus but I shot at F7.1 so you can barley tell anyways, pretty happy with it considering I was using my shit tamron lens again, almost no editing in this one it was seriously that bright out that day, it was damn near impossible to measure the light for my camera. Almost that time again things are warming up here on the north island, time to rinse out the ol crab buckets!

First shoe on the tree!

Here is some crazy ones for you guys, these are my sons first runners on the shoe tree. What a better way to immortalize the first shoes then the ol' tree, I have put many shoes on there since i was a kid and I plan to  keep doing it lol. As for the pictures themselves it was a single exposure that i then created copy's of with different exposure values then overlapped to make a crazy over-edited HDR ounce again because I love them lol, then I cut out the shoe and de-saturated the second one for a cool selective color look. I edited these fast as hell just to get something on here, its been a few days so they have a couple really rough unpolished spots if you look up close but still came out pretty neat.

Portal to Asgard?

As I was watching the new Thor movie last night watching them teleport back to asgard they fly in some crazy light tunnel through time and space and it looks like a crazy rainbow beam of light, it reminded me of this weird picture I got years ago. This was taken at the quatse river fish ladder I really did not know what I was doing, I was just playing around with settings and ended up with this super over exposed gem, somehow these crazy light rays and weird bokeh blurs showed up. It really is not a good exposure at all the movie just made it come into my mind so here you go lol. This is a 2 second exposure at F22 on a tripod, I am surprised the light rays showed up at all, at 2 seconds long I would have thought it would just be blur but I guess not. Really wish I could take another properly exposed frame and overlap the light rays on it that would be a cool picture maby next time.

Bent outta shape?

Well here is something you do not see everyday, this deer must of had some fight or it just never grew back in rite, or maby it never fell off who knows. But what I do know is he hung around for awhile I spotted him a few times but only had my camera this ounce. The pictures are weird as hell I shot them with my tamron zoom and it has the craziest depth of field blur ever, that combined with grass equals CRAP! but oh well the subject is neat so I am going to share them with you anyways. Have you or someone you know ever ran into one of these bad boys?

BIG 5 TODAY!

Here is george my first born, today he turns five years old wow time flies. I could not have asked for a better son, he is so polite and kind its amazing he fills my hearst with pride and joy like nothing else could I would not change him at all even if I had a choice he is perfect. The picture was a quick shot of him making his birthday cupcakes last night and one from the day he was born, precious moments indead 99% of the reason I love photography is getting to keep these memories with me forever alot of people take it for granted but not this guy im loading up 1000s and 1000s of pictures. Anyways the first picture I edited in about 2 minutes and it shows lmao look at the dark spot on his head where I covered up some color real fast hahaha, oh well its all about him for me nothing else matters. I have to go do birthday stuff now big day for my big boy!

Ma Dawg

This is my dog Duke he's just shy of a year old now and what a great dog he is. The little bugger is pure bread beagle a real hound for sure he cant keep his nose out of anything, besides that he is great with the kids and for the most part a well mannered puppy. Taking photos of him is another story I swear he hates my camera, he never lets me take pictures of him lol. Not too much to say about the shots.....the bottom pic I was trying to get his eyes only so I shot at f 2.4 putting a lot of his face out of focus no big deal. There will be more pics of this little devil to come in the future he's just too damn cute not too.