Rob’s Hot Shots: PEI Set 2 – A Little Less Simple
I wonder how many thousands of tourists walk by North Rustico Beach in PEI National Park on a yearly basis? During high season, I suspect that 1000s of snapshots are taken on the beaches of the park, and you figure that North Rustico Beach, being right at one of the entrances of the park, would mean that many other photographers have captured these scences. Yet, a 15 minute Google Image and Flickr search yields no images even remotely similar to these two.
Read MoreRob’s Hot Shots – PEI Set 1: Simplicity
During our June vacation in Prince Edward Island, we were greeted with rather foul weather for the first 6 days – heavy cloud cover, strong winds, drizzle and rain. The light was flat, and the beautiful colors of the PEI landscape were not to be seen… Typical Maritimes weather, but not in mid-June! This weather forced me to get a bit creative, and gave me a great opportunity to test out my latest filter: the Lee Big Stopper, a 10-stop (!!!) neutral density filter, which slows down exposures by a factor of about 1500.
Read MoreParting Shot of 2010 – Gustav’s “Hot Shot”: Truhin’s Pillars on Christmas Night
G’day Everyone and Happy Holidays,
Due to visit my in-laws on Christmas day, Cheryl suggested, instead, that I stay home and nurse a mild head cold I came down with on Christmas Eve. It’s not what you think, my in-laws, in occasional measured doses, are a real treat, like watermelon wine or fried dough at the county fair. I really did, and still do, have a cold. So, I stayed home, bundled in my new, cozy fleece jacket and pants I found under our Solstice Tree, a welcome gift from Cheryl, and worked at my hobby table building a cinema for the New England & Erie Railroad, our HO ceiling layout that runs throughout our house.
Read MoreGustav’s “Hot Shots” From the Tom Jordan Memorial Boreal Coast Tour
G’day Everyone,
We’ve recently returned from another outstanding Tom Jordan Memorial Boreal Coast Tour and rather than extolling the photo opportunities of this tour, let me simply show you a couple of the images I harvested this year and let our esteemed participants offer their commentary. By the way, if you’re still wondering about the name of this tour, you’ll have to either 1) come on the tour or 2) purchase my memoir – http://www.sojournsinnature.com/store.php#Nesting. 
Gustav’s Hot Shot – Niagara Falls Aerial
During the recent early spell of summer around the first week in April, I grabbed the opportunity to spend a couple of days with my cousin Harry in Buffalo. My friendship with Harry goes back to the summers of the 1960′s and early 70′s when he and I would hunt and fish and ride dirt bikes on my uncle’s farm in the Allegany Mountains of western New York.
Harry earned his pilot’s license shortly after returning safely from Vietnam where he spent two tours of duty as a helicopter gunner. He’s an avid and skilled pilot and owns a small Cherokee single engine plane. He frequently flies into the municipal airport here in Newport, Vermont and I’ll go and pick him up and we’ll pal around like we used to, going out in my canoe for the day and target shooting in the meadow behind my house.
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