Owls

"All About Owls" Seminar at the Raptor Education Foundation in Brighton CO. We got to meet and photograph five birds. Typically when I shoot this sort of subject I rely on the "spray and pray" strategy. The downside of which is figuring out what images I like out of the 220 I took that evening.

The first cut is any image that doesn't have perfectly sharp eyes.

That still leaves a lot of shots that are almost identical. 

Second cut is a bad exposure or pose.

Unfortunately even after that I've still got 80% of my original selection remaining.

I think this guy was my favorite of the bunch. He was very expressive.

Even more owls

Steps

Decay

Boot

Blinds

Careful approach

School House

Caribou Ranch stair to house

Stump at Caribou Ranch Open Space

Blue Bird Mine debris

Cardinal Mill doors and track

Cardinal Mill

Two weekends ago, the Boulder Open space hosted a tour of various hard rock mines in the mountains above Nederland Colorado. This is the stamp Mill for the Cardinal mine. This week we will look at the jones we visited during this tour. 

Walker Ranch side yard

Walker Ranch #4

Walker Ranch #3

Walker Ranch #2

Artists Day at Walker Ranch

Walker Ranch is a parcel of the Boulder Open Spaces parks system. Today they hosted an open house for Artists and photographers to photograph the site and the interior of the buildings. I hot three rolls of B&W negative film and made a few digital IR shots. I'll be showing the IR shots this week.

Cabbage

Backyard Model railroad

Backyard Model railroad

Happy Fourth of July

Or as they say across the pond, that day celebrating American unpleasantness

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Garden Model Railroad

In addition to the trains and track layout, their set up included a number of historically accurate buildings from a local mining era trail route.

Back Garden Railway

Went to an open house yesterday for a Club that specializes in model train collectors that build their layouts in their back yard.