Lisa earn's award for Best Amphibian at the Glennie Nature Competition.

Lisa earn's award for Best Amphibian at the Glennie Nature Competition. 

"The judging for the thirty-third (33rd) George W. Glennie Memorial Nature Salon was conducted on March 16 at the Greater Lynn Photographic Association's club house. The judges for this year’s salon were Jake Mosser, Art Vaughan, and Mike McNeill. It was a challenging competition with 900 images from clubs around the world. We had clubs representing the following 7 countries & 21 U.S. states "

http://mvcameraclub.org/Glennie/2013/ResultsSlideShow/Awards/bestOfCategory.htm

Pixel (the red-eyed tree frog) learns to skateboard

Pixel (the red-eyed tree frog)  learned to skateboard,  thanks to my friend Edie who found him the perfect sized skateboard. As you can see he had a blast! He really got very good very quickly, even able to transverse the railing on the stairs (fourth photo). At one park, see the third photo, he had a lot of on lookers, haven't they ever seen a red-eyed tree frog skateboard before? I also think he was very proud of how much AIR he got at the last skateboard park (see the last image). Tomorrow Pixel is going canoeing, he really likes Connecticut!

Gianna at Grand Central Terminal

Gianna at Grand Central Terminal, see more here

Gianna met us at Grand Central Terminal for a HDR photo shoot, she was wonderful to work with! Flexible mentally and physically. I cannot say enough wonderful things about her!

Grand Central Terminal Vertorama

We have been photographing inside Grand Central Terminal lately, with tripods, doing HDR and long exposures and zoom blurs. We also lead workshops there, see more about our workshops and classes here.

There have been some great Grand Central Terminal (Susan Candelario and Jason Hipp) Vertoramas being made lately so I had to try my hand at it. You can see more of my GCT photos here.

This image was created  from 77 photographs. 11 positions, each one with 7 exposures. 

HDR'ed in Photomatix and then stitched in Photoshop. 

The final image was 20 inches wide by 48 inches high.

This next set of  images were created  from 35 photographs. 5 positions, each one with 7 exposures. 

HDR'ed in Photomatix and then stitched in Photoshop.

Grand Central Terminal

We have been photographing inside Grand Central Terminal lately, with tripods, doing HDR and long exposures and zoom blurs. We also lead workshops there, see more about our workshops and classes here.

You can view more of our GCT images here.

Blizzard 2013

Hamden had the honor of being "the bulleye" for Nemo, the Blizzard of 2013 -- we had 40 inches of snow!

I like this image below for perspective, Buddy is our 100 pound Golden Retriever...

We saw a plow on our Street Friday evening, then we did not see one again until the following Friday! A neighbor's grandson did come Monday with his small pickup truck and he made a path down our street.

The weather after the blizzard was actually quite nice, sunny, not too cold. A lot of snow melted, these icicles were from water dropping from above...

And an artistic (Fractalius) version of the image above...

one last piece of snow resisting the wind...

I made sure to clear a path to the birds feeders while Tom was digging us out in the front. As I was putting the bird feeders back up I noticed a feather at my feet. 

An artistic rendition of the feather above...