Taken from the home of friends in Ben Eoin looking out over the East Bay arm of Bras D'Or Lake. It flashed by so quick that I didn't have time to reset the shutter speed on the camera. So far it's the only eagle we've seen while here.

barn

Couleurs d'automne à Hoeilaart

Herfst kleuren in Hoeilaart

In KB skies

This was from a location prom dress shoot.

Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms.

—Roderick L. Evans

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Life happens even when we have other plans. We start out with our plan A for life, but somehow we find ourselves live our plan who’s letter is much further down the alphabet,

As melancholy as witnessing those moments there is a poetry to it for those who catch a glimpse of them. Just like a fish does not know he is in the ocean he also does not see the outcome of the overwhelming sound of silence in the ocean of noise.

I shot this with the 28-400mm f 4-8 Nikkor lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 140. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Egyptian Goose, Tilgate Park, Crawley, Sussex, Autumn 2022. Cropped by ~50%.

from the Economist and Sun Digital Photo Archives

Lighthouse History

The Louisburg Lighthouse was first built in 1730-34 and was the first Lighthouse built in what is now Canada and second to the Boston Light (1716) in North America . The lantern was destroyed by fire in 1736 and a new lantern was installed in 1738. It was badly damaged in 1758, when Lighthouse Point was used as a battery location, and demolished during the final siege of Louisbourg Fortress, which was razed by the English. In 1842 a wooden lighthouse was built, with a foghorn added in 1902. This building was destroyed by fire in 1922. Then in 1923 this octagonal and concrete lighthouse was built. De-staffed in 1990, it is still operational as a beacon and is a tourist attraction with visible archeological ruins.

It is a Canadian National Historic Site.

with files by Wikipedia

If you get too close, you’ll become poetry

-Xien

From my three weeks in Namibia—

I shot 27525 captures. That is after pitching the Beverly out of focus ones and the ones where the camera decided to take a picture whilst I was walking.

I chose this one because I have been repeatedly been asked “how how close did you get?”

This close. About 12 feet. This is at 260mm on the 100-400mm S Nikkor. If I got any closer I would not become poetry, I’d be lunch.

The system in which I came up with to not have to bring a laptop and be able to back all my images up with my ipad. Worked swimmingly. I shot on Delkin black 850 & 150gb cards. Which is the key to all of this fast read and fast downloads. I brought three 4tb Sandisk Blade drives. I used the Lexar WorkflowGo2. I was very hesitant to buy anything Lexar. I have had less than stellar luck with their cards. That said the workflowGo did the job.

This is one of a bazillion Lion captures I have. I have images of Lions, Leopards, Cheetahs, Caracals, Elephants, Hippos, Rhinos, Water Buffalo, Wildebeests, two types of Baboons, two types of Zebra, Brown Hyenas, Wild Dogs, Warthogs, Oryx, Mongoose, Read Heart beast, Springbok, Sable, Eland, Black Faced Impala, Impala, Crocodiles, Kudo, Waterbuck, Dik-Dik (so I did take Dik-Dik pics), Steenbok,Scrub Hare, Rock Hyrax, Side Winder snakes, African Ground Squirrels, Cape Penguin and so many birds I can’t even begin to name them and those are just the animals I can remember.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

Shot with the Nikon Z6II using the 100- 400mm S lens with the 1.4 Tele converter. Post processed wit NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiKcollection plug-ins.

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Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting and post processing my images.

With that said-

One of the core tenants of my work is this: Practice does not make perfect, a perfect practice makes perfect.You have to practice of practicing. Which is why I always am practicing at practicing.

The ultimate pursuit is the pursuit of attaining the Zen state of Shibumi- effortless perfection and elegance. A state of doing that is thoughtful thoughtless thought. Practice like you have never won and preform like you have never lost. Mastery is the variation of repetition over time.

I was taken by this image, as is true with all my images, as I was walking to a a performance rehearsal of the next ballet to be staged by the National Cuban Ballet. I this this empty practice room the space was filled with the ballerina. Her focus was so strong I felt it as I walked by and had to step back and let her take me to where she was.

Every issue of an image needs to be solved at moment of capture. I realized that the image of her needed to be in a space big enough to show how she filed it. So I took a second shot that showed the the left side of the rehearsal room. I don’t believe in cropping images. I shoot 99% of my images full frame.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 1/1250 of a second ISO 1800. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”

– Ted Grant

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

I always get asked these four questions: Do you see in black and white, can you teach me how to see in black and white, how do you know when an image is supposed to be a black and white and how come your blacks and white images look better than my black and white images.

Then I heard and read a lot of noise about how it’s all about contrast, contrast light and dark and contrast. Or basically the person positing and exposing these thoughts does not really have a clue.

In the film days when you put black and white film in the camera you saw the image in color and the film recorded it in grayscale base off a specific tonal production curve unique to the flavor of film that was in the camera. SO every image was black and white.

So what makes an image a successful black and white? It comes down to the three core elements (according to Jay Maisel or the four key elements according to me, because I cannot leave well enough alone), Light, Gesture and Color (Jay’s) and time (mine). According to Jay Light and Color are obvious but it is Gesture that is the most important, Gesture that is the most telling.

SO the equation for when an image wants/needs to become a black and white is when the color of the image distracts from the gesture of the image.

For example this image, the colors a lovely, but the truly distract from the gesture of the dancers which is beautiful and timeless.

The point? I have never met an image did not know or tell me that it was wanting to be a black and white image. The gesture of the image will always let you know. As to the rest of it being light a nd dark and contrast contrast and more contrast? That really is the after thought and holds true for both color and black and white.

Ballerina: Lilia Laura Martinez Hernandez

Ballarino: Luis Raúl Fernández

I shot this with the 85mm f 1.2 Nikkor lens. 1/1250 of a second ISO 4000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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The solar eclipse occurred today with a heavy cloud cover obscuring the pivotal moment of total darkness of the sun. The northern edge of the path of totality was located about 30 km to the south of our neighbourhood over Lake Ontario. As a result we only got glimpses of the moon covering up the sun through he clouds. In a way it was OK as I hadn't prepared my cameras to take pictures of the solar eclipse with a clear sky. So I got shots with the brightness of the sun lessened by the cloud cover.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still

– Dorothea Lange

From my three weeks in Namibia—

What I love about photography the most is that even though we are all, as Einstein posited, inertial observers of any given moment and depending on where we are standing when we view the “moment” we all see it differently. With a photograph no matter where we are initially observing the image we all see the frozen moment exactly the same way.

For me the best photographs are the ones that feel as if we are in the space between a moment. Traveling to next but not there yet. Leaving the moment we were in yet not completely gone from it.

Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. T Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Model Hannah, on a Location Shoot

The Kajama is a Tall Ship and cruises the inner Toronto harbour and out into Lake Ontario for 2-hour daytime cruises and sunset tours. It's a 165-foot-long three-masted schooner, popular with tourists to the city.

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.

—Neil deGrasse Tyson

From my three weeks in Namibia—

This is the second image of the My two night shoots

Soooooo I said to myself “Self let’s do a Night sky infrared” nobody told me I couldn’t.

I shot the first image, the image of the sand dune with the Z8 modified for full spectrum by Kolarivision with the 590nm magnetic filter. 24-120mm S Nikkor lens and the second shot of the Milky Way with a 50mm f 1.2 S Nikkor. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Goldfinch / Goudvink

Sometimes, you have to get lost to discover the path you were always meant to take

-Vinh Van Lam

This image is from most recent trip to Cuba.

Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting and post processing my images.

With that said-

One of the core tenants of my work is this: Practice does not make perfect, a perfect practice makes perfect.You have to practice of practicing. Which is why I always am practicing at practicing.

The ultimate pursuit is the pursuit of attaining the Zen state of Shibumi- effortless perfection and elegance. A state of doing that is thoughtful thoughtless thought. Practice like you have never won and preform like you have never lost. Mastery is the variation of repetition over time.

I was taken by this image, as is true with all my images, as I was walking to a a performance rehearsal of the next ballet to be staged by the National Cuban Ballet. I this this empty practice room the space was filled with the ballerina. Her focus was so strong I felt it as I walked by and had to step back and let her take me to where she was.

Every issue of an image needs to be solved at moment of capture. I realized that the image of her needed to be in a space big enough to show how she filed it. So I took a second shot that showed the the left side of the rehearsal room. I don’t believe in cropping images. I shoot 99% of my images full frame.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 1/1250 of a second ISO 1800. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA

#mirrorless #Z6III #NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA

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I I I I find the stage and the players always come.

— Robert Doisneau

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Whenever I looked at Robert Doisneau’s work the action of the subject was always absolutely spontaneous and the framing of the background, the angles, leading lines the geometry was absolutely flawless for such an amazingly “spontaneous” moment. Every time I would look at his work all I could thin of mine is considering a new line of endevour, perhaps one in which I would be saying “would you like fries with that?”

One year for my birthday I was given book of his greatest images. I did something men don’t normally do. I read the instructions. I.e. the introduction. The first line was something to the effect “The great secret to my work….” (GO ON) “is I find the stage and the players always come.”

Doisneau would set up his camera frame the image so it was perfect, the stage, and wait for the “players” to come. They always come. Since they are walking into your world instead of you walking in to their world they are spontaneous and unaware you exist with a camera.

These are greatest lessons I have learned always carry a camera, be taken by the picture don’t take the picture, if you want to take more investing picture stand in front of more interesting stuff and lastly find the stage and the players will always come.

I shot this with the 28-400 f4-8 Nikkor lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 180. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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vincent_versace

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God’s sake, don’t try to be artistic-all wild animals walk the same way

—John Marin

From my three weeks in Namibia—

What I like about this images and the others that will be part of this “picture story” is the flow of gestures. I am just a witness of moments of time that would have occurred regardless of me being there or not and how all the elements of the image conspired unknowingly. I was an invisible inertial observer to the ballet of the moment.

I shot the first image of this picture story with the 590nm magnetic filter. 24-120mm S Nikkor lens. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA

#mirrorless #Z8 #NIKKOR 24-120mm S Nikkor #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA

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We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.

—Neil deGrasse Tyson

From my three weeks in Namibia—

Soooooo I said to myself “Self let’s do a Night sky infrared” nobody told me I couldn’t.

I shot the first image, the image of the sand dune with the Z8 modified for full spectrum by Kolarivision with the 590nm magnetic filter. 24-120mm S Nikkor lens and the second shot of the Milky Way with a 50mm f 1.2 S Nikkor. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA

#mirrorless #Z8 #NIKKOR 24-120mm S Nikkor #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA

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The trail affords a chance to clamber over the rocks and sit and watch the North Atlantic Ocean.

Close-up of a vibrant moss rose, showcasing its intricate details and vivid colors #mossrose #rose #flowers #flower #flowermacro #macroflower #natgeoindia #natgeoyourshot #nikonphotography #nikonasia #picoftheday #photooftheday #nikonnxstudio #nxstudio #bbcearth #nikonindiaofficial #natgeowild #nature #naturephotography #nikonphotography #photography #macro #macrophotography

vincent_versace

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God’s sake, don’t try to be artistic-all wild animals walk the same way

—John Marin

From my three weeks in Namibia—

What I like about this images and the others that will be part of this “picture story” is the flow of gestures. I am just a witness of moments of time that would have occurred regardless of me being there or not and how all the elements of the image conspired unknowingly. I was an invisible inertial observer to the ballet of the moment.

I shot the second image of this picture story with the 590nm magnetic filter. 24-120mm S Nikkor lens. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA

#mirrorless #Z8 #NIKKOR 24-120mm S Nikkor #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA

#wacom #calibrite #onone #sunbounce #fineartphotography #kolarivision #shotonnikon

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Mikoyan-Gourevitch MiG-29 Slovaque

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.”

Ruth Bernhard

I am[laying with something new in Nikon’s Studio NX, Flexible color picture control (FCPC). SO we are clear if you are a Nikon shooter and you are not processing your raw files in NX Studio you are truly doing your images a disservice. !00% of all of my images are converted from the .NEF file format to tiTiff in Nikon software since the inception of Nikon Capture. That is going all the way back to the first Nikon DSLR the D1.

I am working on creating FCPC settings that replicate great BW films from back in the day. This image was post processed with control points and an FCPC that I created to emulate 125iso film made by a USA film manufacturer.

I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III and the 50mm f 1.2 S Nikkor lens. I used a 10 stop B+W ND filter. Image raw processed in NX Studio.

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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

— Cesare Pavese

From my three weeks in Namibia—

In the instant that I shared between the leopard seeing me and me seeing the leopard is the moment that we both saw each other and the connection between us took the image. I remember this moment with absolute clarity. I do not however remember the day in and exact sense. I just remember the blur of it to get me to the moment of clarity.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 100-400mm Nikkor with the 1.4x extender. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA

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It’s kinda fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney

This image is from most recent trip to Cuba.

Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting and post processing my images- Then I went Cuba. Then I came back 0n the 6th. Then I had to put my entire studio back together from prepping to bug out from the fires

That said…

In my work I am in the practice of practicing. Practice does not make perfect, a perfect practice makes perfect. Which is why I always am practicing at practicing. With the pursuit of attaining the Zen state of Shibumi- effortless perfection and elegance. A state of doing that is thoughtful thoughtless thought. Practice like you have never won and preform like you have never lost.

I was taken by this image, as is true with all my images, as I was walking to a a performance rehearsal of the next ballet to be staged by the National Cuban Ballet. I this this empty practice room the space was filled with the ballerina. Her focus was so strong I felt it as I walked by and had to step back and let her take me to where she was.

Every issue of an image needs to be solved at moment of capture. I realized that the image of her needed to be in a space big enough to show how she filed it. So I took a second shot that showed the the left side of the rehearsal room. I don’t believe in cropping images. I shoot 99% of my images full frame.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 1/2000 of a second ISO 12000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA

#mirrorless #Z6III #NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA

#wacom #calibrite #onone #sunbounce #fineartphotography #kolarivision @nikonusa #shotonnikon

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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant – the only harmless great thing.

-John Donne

From my three weeks in Namibia—

There is something humbling about standing 10 feet away from a creature that is as big as a three story house. Even more humbling is when a creature that size sees you, looks at you then through you.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

Shot with the Nikon Z8 using the 24- 120mm S lens, Kolarivision IR Conversion. Post processed wit NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.

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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our sense to grow sharper.

- Bertrand Russell

This image is from my euphemistically named “2_DO_DROID” a 16tb with 182 GB left of space.

Sorry it’s been yet another long minute since I last posted. It has been a work filled, fun filled, stress filled project rich few weeks.

That said…

When ever I have a moment between deadlines I rummage through the the 2 do drive. It’s full of almost pictures and images that at the tie I knew there was something there I just did not possess the “something” needed at the time to get it there.

This image is one of those. I shot this image 10 years ago with a D750 and the 28-300mm AKA the “street sweeper” lens.

I found the files in a folder named “PEACOCK” all the other folders had the standard naming/numbering convention I use. There is a children’s book about a peacock who finds himself living amongst a flock of pigeons. So I figured since coincidence is the universe’s attempt at remaining anonymous I should look inside. 3:47am I diminished the file and pulled a print.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

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I have been chomping at the bit to be able to talk about one of the new features in the Z8 3.0 firmware update. Specifically the ability to do a pixel shift / focus shift series of captures. Wow…… the color fidelity, and incredible detail is mind boggling but having your cake and eat it too with being able to mix wide ope with critical aperture for the sharpest and creamiest Bokeh again Wow…..

Pixel Shift is an option where the camera moves the sensor during a series of captures. This series is then merged in the Nikon NX Studio software. In this case, the pixel shift option was set to the maximum capture option of 32 images. The camera exposed an image then moved the sensor… about half the width of a single pixel… and exposed the next one. For 32 images. Those 32 NEF (RAW) files were merged into one massive NEFX raw file that now has a resolution of about 180,000,000 pixels.

Focus Shift Shooting is an option where the camera makes an exposure then shifts focus to a different plane and makes another exposure. The cool part is that the camera is automatically setting the shift movement so that a series of images can be stacked on post in such a way to increase the depth of the PLANE of focus. This results in a subject the can have a nearly unlimited amount of the subject focus. Not just more depth of field, but depth of actual in focus.

The Z8 FW 3.0 is the first time anyone has offered both at the same time on a full frame professional camera.

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