Marty December 5th, 2007
This phenomena is known as a sun pillar, and it’s created by the presence of ice crystals in the atmosphere between the sun and the photographer. This is known as a lower pillar because the beam is coming from below the sun (normal pillars rise up from the sun when it has just dropped below the horizon). Continue Reading »
Marty December 2nd, 2007
It’s been a long couple of months, so yesterday the wife and I decided to go out in the freezing cold and … bird (we’re crazy that way). Well, yesterday at Forsythe NWR* it was raptor central. Continue Reading »
Marty November 15th, 2007
I just wanted to put up something that I started working on a week ago. I thought it might be interesting to see how the creative process worked for me doing some of the gummi shots I did at Halloween.
The seance shot that I did was one of the last concepts that I drew up … almost a parting shot, but it ended up being one of my favorite shots.
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Marty October 29th, 2007
The gummis are back. Every once in a while I decide to get creative, and I came up with some good Halloween Gummi ideas last year on about Nov. 3rd. So, this year I prepped early and did some playful scenes. Stay tuned for a few more to come. Continue Reading »
Marty October 11th, 2007
Well, it’s official - my wife is a professional photographer. Continue Reading »
Marty October 2nd, 2007
This past Saturday, I finally had a few hours in the morning to get out and do some birding. Almost all of fall migration has gone by and I had yet to see any warblers. Time has been a precious commodity, and so I got up at the crack of dawn Continue Reading »
Marty September 5th, 2007
Catalpa Sphinx Moth (parasitized)
Ceratomia catalpae
When I was hiking around Palmyra Cove last Sunday, I came across several Catalpa trees that were rife with large caterpillars. And most of those caterpillars were rife with something else - little eggs all over their bodies. Continue Reading »
Marty August 2nd, 2007
Not a whole lot of time to write now, so I figured that I would just throw up some pictures from Longwood Gardens from last weekend. I’ll be back soon. Continue Reading »
Marty June 6th, 2007
Last weekend started early for me, as our company has ’summer hours’ - meaning that assuming you put in your time, you get out of the office at 3 p.m. on Fridays between Memorial and Labor days. I happen to think it’s a great idea, and enthusiastically try to support it. I say ‘try’ because I’ve yet to actually leave at 3 - my record, so far, is 3:30 because I’m a sucker and things come up at 2:55 all the time. 
When I got home, I really needed to get out and take some pictures. I’d been fairly cooped up all week at work, and needed some outside time. Shari wasn’t feeling well, so I ran out to some local ponds in search of dragonflies. The hunt wasn’t entirely successful as most of the local ponds had little more than Common Whitetails running around, although I did see some cool damselflies, including my first Citrine Forktail.
