I put some of my images up of the area around where I live in northern Phoenix. This may be a desert, but that doesn't mean it is barren. These images will show you a little bit of what it's like to walk around in the Sonoran desert. They were taken as far back as 2008. Some scenery, some flowers, some wildlife, and a lot of cactus...
{Updated April 20, 2012 - new images are at the end]
Wow! I decided to try to make a web page showing most of the places Connie and I have traveled since we met. We do love to travel, and especially to places where we can scuba dive. We've been to a lot of places in 5 years! There are a LOT of pictures at this link, but it's because we've been busy. You'll see...
A few pictures from Nassau in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, 2012. We visited the Atlantis Resort, went on a Powerboat Adventure, and ... ate at the Poop Deck.
We went on a Blackbeard's Cruise (scuba dive boat) in the Bahamas for a week of diving in February 2012..
A trip on the Dolly riverboat on Canyon Lake in Arizona in November, 2011.
I went to a school Christmas play to take pictures of my granddaughter. I ended up taking pictures for the school yearbook partway through the play! The kids did a fabulous job. They were also quite amusing when they didn't think anyone was watching them.
Craig and family spent two days at the Iowa State Fair in August 2011.
Craig and Alicia even rode the Ejector Seat. Emily went on rides
until she puked, and then went on some more!
Here is a video of Alicia and Craig riding the Ejector Seat.
(You need to install the Photodex plugin (which should happen automatically on a Windows pc.)
More vacation pics. New Orleans, Carnival Cruise, a bit of diving in Belize, a bit of sightseeing in Cozumel, etc.
Craig takes a balloon ride with his daughters.
More scuba diving in Cozumel and Costa Maya.
October 2010, Bryce Canyon.
Why did it cost us $139 to replace a microwave bulb? Here's why.
Seven weeks after a horrible motorcycle wreck near where we live, I photographed items left at the scene.
[Updated March 25, 2011]
Desmond is a Siamese, born May 24, 2010.
Bella is a Shih Tzu, four-months old on March 26, 2010.
Here are some of my best owl images taken in 2010.
Testing various lenses on wildlife in 2009 and earlier.
Connie attended training sessions in September, and we went to a luau as a perk.
On a business trip to Georgia, I took time off to see my friend race his motorcycle at Road Atlanta.
We got together with some friends on a rainy day in January 2010 and visited the Renaissance Festival.
Another trip to the Phoenix area Renaissance Festival 2011.
Some scuba diving in Cozumel. Sharks, eels, lobster, crabs, Splendid Toadfish (really!), and more.
Cozumel residents hid their children, rubbed their rosaries, and lamented the times when our dive group set out to drive around the island.
Our first trip to Maui, in May 2009. Also visited Lanai, and Molokai.
Our second trip to Maui, in September 2010. Shorter trip, more diving, less driving.
We dove Molokini Crater (front and back walls) and Turtletown. Saw (and handled) an octopus. Saw sharks, turtles, and even a manta ray at the back wall.
Did more diving on our second trip to Maui, including two trips to Lanai. Dove the Carthaginian along with a submarine!
My first chance to get photos of the Hoover Dam from the new bypass bridge.
[In Process] - Some images from my week at Novell's BrainShare 2011
Connie and I drove to Utah and spent a week with our Novell friends. Rode quads for the first time.
Some images from my week at Novell's BrainShare 2010
February 2009 - This is a web show (images and movies) made into a slide show with music. It's pretty big, as these sorts of things have to be, at 100MB+. However, it's a beautiful show, and I'm proud of it. You will need to click on the image in the center or on 'loop all' to start it. (It should start playing without having to download the entire show, but it's still a lot of bytes.) If you don't have the Photodex viewer installed, it should prompt you and then install it automatically to your browser.
San Carlos scuba dive trip from July 26- 29, 2008. (Early) underwater photography. As the years have gone by, our underwater photography has improved a lot over this, but the sea lions at San Pedro Island are still a treat.
In Costa Rica, there is this job I know, involving jumping in a river with a dead chicken and crocodiles...
A few shots of unusual stuff.
Examples to show your wife why you do not now, and probably never will, be the best example of someone with 'too much camera gear'.
Here are some examples of using a 10.5mm fisheye lens on a DX format camera.
I'm slowly getting landscape shots up.
Camping with friends at Kartchner Caverns during the Orionids meteor shower.
Some shots I like, cropped to 1680x1050.
Thanksgiving Photos 2008 Portraits done during Craig and Connie's Thanksgiving 2008. | Thanksgiving Photos 2009 Portraits done during Craig and Connie's Thanksgiving 2009. |
Various lens and camera tests I've done.
I wanted to post some examples of higher ISO shots I've done over the last couple of years, with a D300 and a D700.
My Thinktank Airport Accelerator camera bag loaded with as much camera gear as I can pack onto an airliner. Two camera bodies, nine lenses, two flashes and misc stuff - 31 lbs currently. I wear this on my back, and the Speed Racer on my front (holding point-n-shoots in underwater housings) when I fly. And I pack a tripod and other gear in a suitcase. Yes, I do not travel light...
My Thinktank Speed Racer camera bag loaded with camera and lenses. This gives an idea of what fits into this very comfortable and useful bag.