He's B-a-a-ck!

Well, folks — thanks for your patience while I was gone.  It was fun keeping in touch while on the road, but it is also nice to be back home with the full suite of tools with which to work.

I’d like to say welcome to some new folks who have joined the class since I left: Susan McRae, Wyatt Riegel, Michael Blahitka, Dana Davis and Shealagh deDelley are all new to the group.  I look forward to hearing “hello” messages here in the blog from those who have not introduced themselves.

Timing counts as the deep hues last only minutes

And it seems we had a bit of a tough winter, so it must be doubly nice for those of you who are beginning to feel the warmth of spring in these longer days. 

Now that I have had a nice satisfying time taking photos of exotic locales, I am going to be back to working on technique and will share those ideas here.   If you have a technique you’d like to play with, don’t be shy to fire a message here to the blog and we can have some fun with it.

Having said that, I have been enjoying low-light photography, and will feature a few of those in this blog entry.  This is a nice area to work in, as it allows you to take control of the light — though mixing ambient and artificial light depends a great deal on timing.

Mixing artificial and ambient light is fun.

And for those of you who didn’t know — we Nikon users were experiencing some dismay to find the Nikon plant was affected by the Tsunami inJapan.  They are (as of today) back on line and producing again, subject to intermittent power supplies.  This is no cause for wild cheering among the Canon crowd, by the way!

On that topic, here is a great podcast that sometimes gets a little too “Nikon” but often deals purely in imaging and interesting techniques.  It’s called “The Image Doctors” and I listen to these podcasts on my iPod while driving back roads on weekends!   

You should too.