The Little Things, African Violet

Hello everyone

As a photographer and in any business it's important to have goals. Sometimes the accomplishment can be monetary value

or a confidence booster. One of my goals for this coming year is that I want to increase my floral/macro collection. I came up with the name 'The Little Things,' to ensure the focus is on macro images. Here on this African Violet I used a small depth of field, low f-stop, to blur the background. Background control is very important with a close up shot like this, also I used a little Topez Buzz.

Hope you enjoy

Nick

Gone fishing

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Here's another image from the small mountain stream near Worlds End State Park. While capturing the whole falls and stream a fisherman aka my father in law came in to cast a couple of times for some native trout. This image is all about being in the right place at the right time. The hardest part was getting him to get into the shot.

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Nick

Standing Guard

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These rock formations are along the Loyalsok creek by the entrance to Worlds End State Park. They mysteriously appeared during the Sullivan County bowhunters festival this past September.

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Nick

Worlds End State Park

Hello everyone, sorry for the delay in posts, it's been pretty busy around here. This past weekend I was up in Sullivan County and Worlds End State Park. This mountain stream is outside of the park. The water level on all of the creeks and streams was amazing.

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Nick

The Little Things

Hello Everyone, while shooting a barn scene this summer. I happened to look into a grassy area by a fence pole. That's where I found this little guy. I was able to get a few shots off. He didn't seem to be in a rush to go anywhere.

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Nick

Windmill & Barn

Hello everyone, these past couple of week's I've been going over past images from the summer to see if there is anything I missed. This shot came from an outing with Ed Heaton around Strasburg. We both processed our images in B&W. I feel that it gives a look from a different century. A time in place where things moved a little slower.

I also want to give a thank you to all my viewers of this blog. I never realised how many view's I've been getting till I checked out the stats to this page. Thank you and your comments are always appreciated.

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Nick

Kelly's Run

Yesterday I hiked parts of Kelly's Run nature preserve near Holtwood. Part of the plan was to scout out area's to shoot for fall color's the other part was to see how low the is the water. Now we've had a hot and dry summer so I knew the water levels would be low, but I didn't think they would be that low. This scene was hidden between a couple of boulders and it was the only 'white' water I could find. This gorge has nice tumbling water down a gorge and if it isn't for the steep hike in and out I'd shoot more often. Hopefully we can get about 3-4 inches of good soaking ran so these creek's can fill up again. Enjoy

Nick