Have you ever....

dreamed of going on a photography "hunt" or shoot in the wilderness of Alaska? Ever dreamed of getting a great photo of a Grizzly bear in the pristine wilderness? How about an out standing image of Bald Eagles? Would you like someone to guide you to places like: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Gates of the Arctic National Park, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Katmai National Park and Preserve and the Kenai Peninsula? I know that I have.You might check out this page:http://www.alaskanalpinetreks.com/About_Us/About_Us.htmlfor a start. When and if I get the time and money to go there, these are some of the people that I am going to contact. Their blog and web site are very nice and professional in my opinion. May your Christmas have been as joyful and blessed as mine. May you have a bright and shining New Year. 

More Photographic Perspiration and Inspiration.......

Saturday, December 18, 2010 was pretty much a dim, dull and rainy day in the Winter Haven, Fl. area as you can see from these photo's. 

More Photographic Inspiration and Perspiration......

I was down at lake Sears before the sun came up on Saturday, December 18, 2010. It was still close enough to dark that I was pushing to functional boundaries of my Kodak CX7430 camera when these birds showed up. 

More Photographic Inspiration and Perspiration......

I have no idea who owns this Harley Davidson, but it became an attractive nuisance to my Kodak Easy Share CX7430, 4.0 Mega Pixel camera. My camera has a mind of it's own and practices ''mind over matter" (it does not mind me and that doesn't matter to it). The blurry spots were apparently cause by a spot of "fog" on the lens.  

More Photographic Perspiration and Inspiration.......

This video can show you how blustery it was when I took it, but it can't show you how BITTERLY COLD it was in central Florida on that day. It was however under cloudless blue sky. Did I mention how BITTERLY COLD it was on December 13, 2010? 

More Photographic Perspiration and Inspiration.......

While I was looking for cold damaged plants to take pictures of I came across this to take a picture of. I think that the pinkish part is a flower head, but I have no clue of where it came from. 

This plant is a definite victim of the recent bitter cold here in Central Florida. I think that it was some kind of Daisey, but I am not a Botanist. 

 I took the picture below as an experiment by setting the camera to "close up", setting the timer and laying it under the flower.

It looks like a nice "happy accident" to me.

More Photographic Perspiration and Inspiration....

In another display of trying to push my poor little 4 MP camera well beyond it's normal point and shoot limits, I put it on a tripod and started shooting before the sun topped the horizon. 

As you can see from the graininess of the same picture above and below, it was still technically too dark to get even moderately good pictures. It was a fun and interesting time to listen to the world start to wake up, though.

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