Daily Photo: Grasses Green
Filed Under: Photography
Tall grass has the kind of calming effect on me that ocean waves have on coastal people. I associate it with tranquility.
Filed Under: Photography
Tall grass has the kind of calming effect on me that ocean waves have on coastal people. I associate it with tranquility.
Filed Under: Photography
The new camera is performing satisfactorily. I’ve become obsessed with sharpness lately. The first round of pictures I took were overwhelmingly out of focus and it left me really confused. The camera has image stabilization, so it should take sharper pictures than before, yes? I think the new focusing system was to blame though. It has 11 focusing points instead of the old three point system and that takes some getting used to. I’m using my tripod pretty heavily now and it’s helping. Also, the two second delay timer. This thing just seems super sensitive to shake from pressing the shutter.
I really like how this dragonfly photo turned out, although I probably should have went portrait in the framing.
Hi! My name is Jeremiah Tolbert, but you can call me Jeremy. I am a fantasy and science fiction writer, photographer, and web designer living in Northern Colorado. I am currently starting a new job and cannot take freelance work at this time. Drop me a line if you have any questions or comments. I love hearing from new people and I now have a lot more time to chat.
Hi Folks. After a ton of work on the part of myself, Sarah, and my sound engineer and good friend Nate Periat, we’ve finished and posted our first Dr. Roundbottom Field Sounds podcast. It’s only 5 minutes long, so don’t hesitate to just go to the site and hit play. Please let me know what [...]
Do you remember that Disney CG film Dinosaurs? It’s original concept involved a feature length movie with animals that only emoted, and never spoke. Having always been a big fan of computer animation, I was excited at the early rumors of the film. Unfortunately, Disney execs got involved and the result was the talky-travesty that [...]
I forget where I got this, but I think that it’s the level of quality I’d like to see in more book trailers online:
Having Tim Curry as a narrator is probably outside of the range of what we can afford as SF/F writers, but still. Let’s go over what makes this awesome:
Tight pacing. 2 minutes [...]
Located 15 minutes south of Fort Collins, Coyote Ridge is a natural area consisting if a couple hundred acres of prairie. A trail runs from the road up across several ridges. Today, I walked to the base of the second ridge before coming back. I’ll make the full hike to the end [...]
The Dream Zine?
I hear what you’re thinking, “You mean your dream magazine wasn’t the Fortean Bureau?” At the time, it was everything I could make it be with the constraints (financial, content, format) I worked under. And even though the magazine is on semi-permanent hiatus, I still follow the publishing side [...]



see clockpunk.com for information. Strobist Info: Three lights! FInally got a three light setup going. One FL-36 bounced on an umbrella pointing at the background. A speedlight into a softbox camera right, up close to the foreground figure (rear figure is the same person, added from a different exposure). Finally, a Vivitar on 1/4th about 10 feet back extreme camera left as a fill.


Dragon flies are big enough that I can take some very high magnification shots of their faces. They look so unusual at this scale, but quite beautiful, in my opinion.





