Longwood Gardens Christmas

Good times just having Fun! Valerie

Butterfly

Always difficult taking shots like this as butterflies general are moving or flapping there wings. A high shutterspeed help but difficult to get depth of field somewhere in between are results like this...Gary

        Centennial Lake, Columbia Maryland , 18-200 Nikon Lens, Nikon D90 camera and beautiful fall      foliage. Maple tree shot at Brookside Gardens.Valerie

Waterfalls in centrel New York Finger Lake Region

Warterfall photography is always challenge. In order to get the water to make that ghosting effect you must us a long shutter speed and a tripod. On this trip to the Watkin Glen State Park in Ithica New York I found that the addition of a neutral density filter allowed much better results. The other crucial factor was the sky was overcast with clouds, direct sunlight on water will ruin your attempt at long exposure photography. Arive early in the morning at your destination if the sun is going to be out...

Robert Treman State Park Ithaca New York

Robert Treman State Park Ithaca New York

Buttermilk Falls State Park Ithaca New York

Buttermilk Falls State Park Ithaca New York

Buttermilk Falls State Park Ithaca New York

Buttermilk Falls State Park Ithaca New York

Taughannock State Park Ithaca New York

Taughannock State Park Ithaca New York

Taughannock State Park Ithaca New York

Taughannock State Park Ithaca New York

Hector Falls Watkins Glen New York rt 414

Watkins Glen State Park New York

Watkins Glen State Park New York

Watkins Glen State Park New York

Watkins Glen State Park New York

Watkins Glen State Park New York

Watkins Glen State Park New York

Eagles Nest

Norfolk Botanical Gardens

F-13 ISO 200 shutter 1/200sec.

On Safari in Cabela's Sporting Goods Store Hamburg Pa.

Butterfly in VA. Botanical Gardens

Camera Nikon D-300 Lens Nikor 18-200mm f3.5-5.6
ISO 200 / f-14 / Shutterspeed 1/200sec.

Washington Monument at Night

Camera Nikon D-300 Lens Nikor 18-35mm
Iso 200 Program mode with tripod

The Lotus

Visits to The Aquatic Garden In DC, I think they are some of the most Beautiful flowers in the world. Valerie

A Rose by any other name

A Rose my husband gave me, shot with Nikon D90, used a Nikor 18-200 mm lens, a yard of black velvet (I love that fabric) ISo 400 1/50 of sec F 5/6. window light. Valerie

Norfolk Virginia Botanical Gardens Panoramic

For this panoramic shot I captured 13 individual pictures (witch were overlap by 25% each) and used adobe photoshop photomerge to stitch them together. If you try doing this use a manual setting on the white balance function in order to keep the color temp from changing from shot to shot. Make sure you pan evenly thur the course of your shot's to keep from having to crop after your photomerge is completed. It's definitely worth the trouble and effort to end up with results like this...Gary

Water Lily at Longwood Gardens

These shots were taken with a Nikon D-300 and the Lens was a nikor 80-400mm

ISO 100 Shutter speed 1/60 sec. f-11 to 25

It's better to take these type of photographs before the sun gets to bright, of course I didn't get there early enough but I am happy with these results...Gary

Norfolk Botanical Gardens