Paddletramp Photography

Who doesn't love a pretty flower?! | Comments [4] | Post a Comment

Tuesday Jun 30, 2009

I love how this flower photo turned out. I used close-up lenses screwed onto the front of my lens, and also shaded part of the flower from the sun with a big piece of paper (it was a very hot sunny day). The close-up lenses gave a really nice shallow depth of field, which makes most of the photo look kind of painterly to me. It took me more...

Welcome to the World | Comments [6] | Post a Comment

Saturday Jun 27, 2009

How do you get a photo of a baby bird coming out of it's shell? You guess what day the egg will hatch... and then you keep checking the nest every half hour til you see it start to crack. Then you run like hell to get your camera.

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Awesome. Love that it looks as if he is wearing a helmet!

Posted by Jamie on June 27, 2009 at 06:28 PM CDT #

high Debbie,
On this subject, you took plenty of beautiful pictures. One more !

Posted by François-Noël on June 28, 2009 at 01:29 AM CDT #

Extraordinary moment you captured. WOW!

Posted by Marcie on June 28, 2009 at 09:24 AM CDT #

Excellent capture and I really like the selective focus. Such a delicate little thing!

Posted by Susan on June 28, 2009 at 04:02 PM CDT #

Born with a helmet! :) Incredible texture on this one. Lovely, just lovely.

Posted by Goncalo Figueiredo on June 29, 2009 at 04:55 AM CDT #

wonderful image, superb composition and dof

Posted by Andrew on June 30, 2009 at 05:12 AM CDT #

Quetico Beaver | Comments [6] | Post a Comment

Tuesday Jun 16, 2009

A busy beaver making eye contact with me while paddling in the Quetico Wilderness in Canada.

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Beautiful shot of this Beaver. Perfectfocus and composition even while paddling. WOW

Posted by Thomas on June 17, 2009 at 11:46 PM CDT #

Great find!!! Love how he's looking right at you. Wonderful color and composotion.

Posted by Marcie on June 19, 2009 at 09:02 AM CDT #

Those baby chicks shots... what kind of birds where they?

Posted by Timothy O'Shea on June 19, 2009 at 12:36 PM CDT #

Timothy,

Those birds are Finches. (If you are asking about the series of baby birds in the nest). If you mean the yellow baby chicks that are by some rocks... those are baby Canadian Geese. And the recent baby bird shots where the bird looks like he is glowing from his mouth... those are baby red cardinals.

Posted by Debbie Hartmann on June 19, 2009 at 07:39 PM CDT #

I can't help but think "here's lookin' at you kid"! Nice capture!

Posted by Susan on June 21, 2009 at 09:21 AM CDT #

It's 11 p.m., do you know where your pants are? LOL!! I did not have a current favorite quote but I do now. Love this shot and your other wildlide shots are wonderful!!

Posted by Terry H. on June 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM CDT #

Glowing From Within | Comments [9] | Post a Comment

Saturday Jun 06, 2009

The light that is lighting up the inside of this baby red cardinal is the sunlight shining through leaves of the tree directly into his mouth. The bit of sunlight shining through the leaves created a spotlight effect that I couldn't have planned better myself. I am constantly amazed at my friend Mother Nature.

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This post has been selected as PixyBlog's Daily Shot for Sat, 6 Jun 2009

Posted by Pixy on June 07, 2009 at 03:04 AM CDT #

Amazing ! well done !

Posted by François-Noël on June 07, 2009 at 04:18 AM CDT #

Love this!
Beautiful light,
beautiful life.

Posted by Kevin from OrganicPIX.com on June 07, 2009 at 10:04 AM CDT #

bsolutely incredible. WOW!

Posted by Marcie on June 07, 2009 at 11:15 AM CDT #

Interesting picture, when I first glanced at it I thought it was a snapping turtle.

Posted by John T. on June 08, 2009 at 07:17 AM CDT #

wow! that is great, and i think to the power of life looking at that light in it's mouth. excellent !!!

Posted by paolo on June 08, 2009 at 12:53 PM CDT #

this is fantastic! just wow :)

Posted by Briony on June 08, 2009 at 01:18 PM CDT #

This definitely has the WOW factor! Amazing...and congrats on the daily pic!!!

Posted by Susan on June 10, 2009 at 07:18 PM CDT #

Its not just awesome, its simply incredible. I have never ever seen such lighing in this kind of composition. I wondering how you managed that effect. WOW.

Posted by Thomas on June 13, 2009 at 12:20 AM CDT #

Who doesn't love a pretty flower?! | Comments [4] | Post a Comment

Tuesday Jun 30, 2009

Welcome to the World | Comments [6] | Post a Comment

Saturday Jun 27, 2009

Quetico Beaver | Comments [6] | Post a Comment

Tuesday Jun 16, 2009

Glowing From Within | Comments [9] | Post a Comment

Saturday Jun 06, 2009

3 baby cardinals | Post a Comment

Saturday Jun 06, 2009