Tag: Nikon Z 85mm f/1.8 S
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London Trees
Since our London hotel was in South Kensington, we walked the length of Hyde Park and St James’s Park (which run east-west and touch corner-to-corner) several times to reach Westminster Abbey and the surrounding area. There are a lot nice trees along this route, and four of this week’s images are from Hyde Park alone.…
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10,000 Sunsets
I love my new home in Colorado for a lot of reasons, but after living in Tucson for 29 years, there are a few things I really miss. We recently found a Mexican restaurant that makes us feel like we are in Arizona, so I think that issue is resolved. The two remaining biggies are…
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Barrio Viejo Encore
I know that I promised last week that this week I would move on from Barrio Viejo, but if you followed the comments on last week’s post, you know that I succumbed to Rob W’s request to publish some stragglers that didn’t make the planned three posts. I keep my weekly posts fairly concise with…
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Barrio Viejo Doors
After having so much fun photographing doors and windows and such in Santorini, Greece, the previous April, last fall I spent some time on two consecutive Sundays out wandering around in a colorful old neighborhood south of downtown Tucson called Barrio Viejo. I had driven through the area a number of times, but the only…
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Whitewater Draw Landscapes
The sandhill cranes are the main—but not only—reason to visit Whitewater Draw. While the immediate area is pretty flat, there are mountains in the distance in nearly every direction. Arizona, of course, is frequently blessed with colorful skies that often can be exploited by compositions that show a lot of sky, such as the image…
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Winter Afternoons at Whitewater Draw
About 100 miles east of my former home in Tucson, Arizona, and well south of Interstate 10 is the Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area, winter home to roughly 30,000 sandhill cranes. Interestingly, the number of sandhill cranes at the much more famous Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is only about 10,000, although the latter compensates…