And now, the news!

For those of you following my journal, you know my posts are somewhat sporadic. I've set up a proper site for my photography work, http://www.studio-axis.com/

As with most sites on the web, it's not finished, and it's not quite what I want (the web designer and I are currently having a disagreement) but it's up there and oddly, the third hit already on Bing.

I'm nowhere on Google's ranking, but then I didn't expect to be, why I'm already on Bing I'll never know, but that's okay, for the dozen or so people that DO use Bing, I'm easily found :)

BTW, this pic to the left is yours truly. Good self-portrait photography is difficult.

Test Run

I was given a Nikon D1 for the pocket change in my couch. Worn, battered and unloved I took it in and cleaned it up, smoothed over the worn spots with gentle paints, brushed away the dirt and took it out to run it through a field test.

Okay, that's all very marshmellodramatic but the D1 is a piece of history, and the images it can still take, are very nice.

For example, the one just to the left of this text. Taken on a stormy day on my way to a client's office.

I think I will not be keeping it (after all, the D1x is superiour is almost every way) but I will make sure it goes to a good home.

If you want it, let me know.

Proof!

Give in to what you cannot fight, walk among us!

Sorry, just in a Misfits mood. Captured (heh heh) this little guy in the wilds of Colorado. Sorry I've not updated this site sooner, but I've been working on my new site and been a tad behind in stuff (so what else is new?)

Stopping the motion

Waterfalls shot, a wider view than the last one. With the sun behind the trees, and some clouds overhead I couldn't quite stop the motion of the falls, but overall I think this shot turned out well.

Alternative View

I'm running out of things to say about the beauty of Colorado, so I'll let the images speak for themselves.

Wild Wild Life

Lots of wildlife (no, not fratboys) casually sauntering around Colorado, including foxes, rabbits, sheep and deer.

This doe was untroubled by me getting really close, and as such, I got some great shots of her feeding.

Stripes

Not from a park or a monument, just caught driving from one place to another. Once again the colours make the image (plus the lone tree in the upper right)

Lost

This was the last shot I took on a Compact Flash card. I changed cards and continued to shoot in the area (including caputing a heavy oncoming storm) but somehow in the process of transferring the files from CF to DVD, I'd lost that set.

A bummer as I was looking forward to seeing them, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

I think the skull is from a fox, I saw quite a few foxes out that way, but I don't really know.

Not Pointy!

I don't recall where I took this, Colorado National Monument I think, but a nice landscape with great sky ties it together I think.

Pointy!

The sky really makes this image. After a while I'd gotten used to seeing rocks jutting from the landscape everywhere I went and trying to capture them in new or interesting ways was taxing. But when the clouds rolled in suddenly everything came together (cue Beatles music)