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Tower Grove Park |
Posted: November 03, 2022 |
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Today I purchased the Canon RF 24-240 mm lens.
My intention is to use it on my Canon R5
camera to replace the scenario where I have two
camera bodies… one with my Canon EF 24-70 mm and
the other with my Canon EF 70-200 mm.
I took it out for a spin in Tower Grove
Park. The light was mid-day and therefore not
optimal for photography. The focal range would seem to
facilitate what I
was hoping to accomplish.
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Forest Park |
Posted: December 10, 2021 |
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When I woke up this morning we
had foggy conditions so I decided to visit some of my
favorite Forest Park locations to capture some "moody"
images. The conditions weren't as foggy as I had hoped
but I believe I got some decent captures for my efforts. |
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Lafayette Square |
Posted: November 16, 2021 |
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I had lunch (meatloaf) at
Sqwires with the Quirk's and Mary Strope. After lunch, I
did some photography in the Lafayette Square area. There
are some really photogenic homes in the area as well as
Lafayette Park. After my last fall photo outing, I
thought fall colors were trending "past peak". Boy was I
wrong! |
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Missouri Highway
19 |
Posted: November 11, 2021 |
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First time ever driving Missouri
Highway 19 south from Cuba, MO. Colors seemed to be
mostly "past peak". |
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Tower Grove Park |
Posted: November 10, 2021 |
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After lunch, I went to Tower
Grove Park to check out
the fall colors. Things seemed close to "peak". |
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Fall Colors |
Posted: November 09, 2021 |
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After lunch, I went to Forest
Park to check out the fall colors. Things seemed close
to "peak". |
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Shaw Nature
Reserve |
Posted: November 08, 2021 |
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Rick Schuessler and I decided to
hit Shaw Nature Reserve today to catch some fall colors.
We certainly did not expect to be treated to such
WONDERFUL clouds. They were simply quite spectacular. |
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Highway 21 |
Posted: November 04, 2021 |
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Another day on my quest for Fall colors. This
time I dove Highway 21 south from St. Louis.
These photos were taken at the Sandy Creek Covered
Bridge State Historic Site. |
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Tower Grove Park |
Posted: November 03, 2021 |
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Another day on my quest for Fall
colors. This time in Tower Grove Park. I believe this is
park is the prettiest in all of St. Louis. Others may
not agree but that's my take. |
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St. Charles
County |
Posted: November 02, 2021 |
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Went looking for Fall colors in
St. Charles County... Augusta & Busch Wildlife. Colors
are not peak as yet but it was a nice outing. |
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St. Louis Art
Walk |
Posted: October 25, 2021 |
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There is a two mile stretch
along the Mississippi River where artists paint murals
on the levee walls. Many are very good. This was my
second time visiting. From memory, it seems that their
are many new murals.
I then drove through the Lemp neighborhood of downtown
to catch a few snaps. |
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Forest Park |
Posted: April 05, 2021 |
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Beautiful 80 degree afternoon,
so I decided to make a trip to Forest Park and capture
some Spring landscapes.
These shots were all taken hand-held. |
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Forest Park |
Posted: January 13, 2021 |
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The
temperature was in the 50's and I had not
done any photography this year so I decided
to go to Forest Park for a bit. My goal was
to capture the stark look of the trees
without leaves.
These shots were all taken hand-held.
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Lone Elk Park |
Posted: December 10, 2020 |
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Rick Schuessler and I visited Lone Elk
Park, the World Bird Sanctuary and Bader
Park. I paired my Canon 500 mm with
my Canon R5
to capture some Elk photos. Took a few
landscape photos there as well with my Canon
24-70 mm. World Bird Sanctuary - nice selection of
birds but it was difficult to get a clear
shot of the birds due to the wire of the
displays. Really like the photo of the Great
Blue Heron.
The last photo (Canon 70-200 mm) was taken
at Bader Park which is designed to
accommodate model plane hobbyists. Pretty
amazing to watch the radio controlled guys
do their stuff!
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Hawn State Park |
Posted: November 22, 2020 |
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Today was a good "cloudy" day so I decided I
would take a long drive (1-1/2 hours) to
Hawn State Park. I have backpacked many
times in this park and as I have recently
had a buzz for woodland photography, I
thought Hawn would offer some nice photo
ops.
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Lafayette Square
Doors |
Posted: November 15, 2020 |
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Took my Canon 135 f/2 lens out for the day
with the new R5.
I went to the Lafayette Square part of
St. Louis. This area is one of a number of
areas in St. Louis where folks have
purchased vintage homes and lovingly
restored them. One characteristic of these
homes that stands out for me is the ornate
entry doors of these homes.
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Forest Park |
Posted: November 08, 2020 |
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Went for another Fall outing
in Forest Park today. I would say that the colors are
right about peak or a little bit past. |
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Highway 79 |
Posted: November 02, 2020 |
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After a morning dental visit in St. Charles,
I spent the rest of the day driving Highway
79 looking for excuses to depress the
shutter button on my new Canon R5 camera. |
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Augusta MO -
Plus more |
Posted: October 31, 2020 |
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Today the weather was very nice so I spent
the whole day on photography. I started out
around Augusta MO. I had visited the above
barn/out building in early October and wanted
to return when the fall colors were closer
to peak.
I then drove to Meramec State Park where I
had never been before. Captured a few decent
photos there.
Tonight was the "blue moon". I was unable to
get to a good location where I could catch
the moon as it was first rising and
therefore the "blue" moon. The next best
thing was my backyard where I had shot the
moon several nights ago. We had some
cloudiness but just like with landscape
photos, they provided some interest to the
resultant capture. Some tree branches chimed
in and I came up with a pretty decent
Halloween photo.
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Forest Park |
Posted: October 28, 2020 |
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After being on order for six weeks, my new
Canon R5 camera arrived. I took it out for
my second Forest Park outing today. All of
these shots were taken with tripod support
(and a two-second shutter delay). It is not
obvious with these size photos but the 45 MP
does translate into more detail when viewing
the full size photo close-up.
I also played around a bit with the focus
stacking feature of the R5. The three focus
stacked images I took start with the
fungal growth on the tree trunk. I
combined these images in Photoshop to get
the final images that are displayed here.
This is a pretty easy process both in camera
and in Photoshop. I foresee using this
technique for those special shots in the
future.
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Forest Park |
Posted: August 30, 2020 |
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The weather was a bit cooler this morning so
I decided to depress the shutter button on
my camera for the first time this year.
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Blood Moon |
Posted: January 25, 2019 |
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I had planned to go to Forest Park
in order to get some foreground interest in the shot.
As I came out of my front door and looked up in the sky,
I realized that the moon was too high in the sky to get
a shot with any foreground interest so I set up my
tripod in my driveway. It was quite cold out but I was
dressed for that. I was out there for about 45 minutes
taking photos.
As you can see from this photo, I am not very
skilled at obtaining a sharp focus on celestial objects.
If you follow this blog, last summer's Milky Way photos
also highlighted this weakness as well.
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Searching for Fall Colors |
Posted: October 22, 2017 |
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I went on a scouting trip to Forest Park today in search of Fall
colors. No where near peak colors as yet but I took a few
record shots.
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Cathedral of St. Louis |
Posted: February 02, 2017 |
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Today I decided I would go to the
Cathedral of St. Louis on Lindell Blvd. I am not really sure if I
have ever been inside this building before but I am
positive I have never taken photos there.
I took my Canon 5D IV camera and two lenses... the 135
f/2 and the 24-70 f/2.8. After taking one or two shots
with the 135, I quickly switched to the 24-70 to capture
a wider field of view. I shot at ISO 12,800 to get a
faster shutter speed. I took most of the shots on my
tripod.
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Ben Scharff Baseball Game - Tamron 150-600 |
Posted: May 22, 2016 |
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I went to see Ben Scharff play in a
baseball game on Saturday afternoon.
It was a beautiful day to watch kids play baseball. kid
around with the parents & siblings and take a few
photos. For most of these photos, I used a monopod for
camera support.
In case you were wondering, Ben's team lost.
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Forest Park - Tamron 150-600 |
Posted: May 15, 2016 |
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I continued using the new lens
today in Forest Park.
I went to the pond area along the east end of the park.
I was hoping to spot some water fowl but there weren't
any.
I did however meet a group of young fellows who are from
India. They are in St. Louis for several months working
on an IT project. We had a great time together. Nice
folks.
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Forest Park |
Posted: May 16, 2016 |
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The weather was very nice today
(albeit a bit on the humid side for my tastes).
After picking up some tickets to go see the Yonder
Mountain String Band at The Pageant on April 9 and
having a sandwich at Salume Beddu, I decided to go to
Forest Park for some early spring photos.
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Fall Colors |
Posted: October 25, 2015 |
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Rick Scheussler and I decided on a
photo outing to Shaw Nature Reserve and Lone Elk Park
along the Highway 44 corridor.
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A Set Back in Time |
Posted: January 17, 2015 |
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Awhile back I had driven through the
neighborhood where we lived until I was nine
years old. The apartment buildings were
blighted but seemed to offer some bit of
character to them.
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Ferguson Missouri |
Posted: November 30, 2014 |
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It was a quiet Sunday
morning in Ferguson. Very few folks were out and
about. No demonstrations going on. I took photos
of a number of signs that had been painted on
the buildings.
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Augusta Missouri |
Posted: November 07, 2013 |
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I decided to visit Augusta, Missouri today. It
is located in St. Charles County just west of the Missouri
River. It was a very nice day and I got a few good shots of the
town and the Augusta Winery.
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St. Joseph Missouri |
Posted: September 03, 2013 |
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On my drive out to and back
from Driggs each summer I had only stopped in
St. Joseph, Missouri to get gas and/or eat a
meal. This time I decided to head west to the
waterfront area hoping I might discover some
nice photo ops.
The riverfront definitely
did not offer any great photo ops but we ran
into a section of town called "Museum Hill". It
offered up some beautiful old homes.
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Soulard Market |
Posted: May 08, 2013 |
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I decided to visit to the Soulard Market
today for my photography outing.
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Shaw Nature Reserve |
Posted: May 12, 2013 |
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I made a visit to Shaw Nature
Reserve today. It is a nice "park" and
offers some nice photo opportunities.
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Shaw Nature Reserve |
Posted: October 24, 2012 |
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This was my first ever visit to the
Shaw Nature
Reserve. Unfortunately the fall colors were
mostly past
prime, but this is a place I will definitely
visit next Fall. The colors in the photo above
are not too shabby.
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Forest Park |
Posted: October 23, 2012 |
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Since Fall colors are about at their
peak, I decided to visit Forest Park this
afternoon.
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Saturday Photo Trip to Augusta |
Posted: October 20, 2012 |
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I decided to take a drive to
Augusta MO in the hopes of catching Fall colors at their peak. The leaves were pretty
close to peak and I had a good day.
I went to the Montelle Winery
where there were lots of folks enjoying the wonderful weather,
the Fall colors, a great band and, of course, a
glass or two of wine. Oh goody. I get to take
photos of pretty women.
After the winery, I drove around the area
looking for some other photo ops. I was able to
get both landscape and detail photos of Fall. I
missed on my attempt at some old buildings as I
was shooting into the sun when the sun was too
high in the sky.
I moved on to the
Busch Wildlife Area, drove the loop road and stopped at a number of the lakes. This
photo was taken about one hour before sunset. I post processed this in Lightroom 4.2 using
some
presets from Matt Kloskowski.
All in all a good day of photography!
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Missouri Highway 94 |
Posted: February 27, 2010 |
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Drove up Highway 94 in Missouri in search of
some eagles today.
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US Highway 64 |
Posted: December 06, 2009 |
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This is something you don't see every day.
Highway 64 was under construction for over a
year. Traffic was re-routed and St. Louis
residents had to make big compromises. As a
"thank you" to the public, folks were
allowed to visit Highway 64 on foot, bike,
stroller, skateboard, etc. the Sunday before
it was opened to traffic.
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Augusta Missouri |
Posted: November 03, 2008 |
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I took a drive out to Augusta in quest of fall foliage.
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Forest Park |
Posted: April 27, 2008 |
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Good day to go to the park so I did.
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Forest Park |
Posted: December 05, 2007 |
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It was a nice overcast late afternoon, so I
decided I would go to Forest Park to a
wetlands area to take some photos.
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Soulard |
Posted: April 21, 2007 |
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My photography class went to Soulard Market
today. There are a great number of
opportunities to take photos with amazing
colors.
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Forest Park |
Posted: November 01, 2006 |
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I went to Forest Park today to enjoy some fall colors.
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Forest Park |
Posted: May 29, 2006 |
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Went to Forest Park today.
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Forest Park |
Posted: May 17, 2006 |
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Spring in Forest Park.
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