DA BEARS!

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:09:14 +0000

Doug and Sheila called tonight, momma bear was asleep in the back yard with two babies. We were able to photograph them for a couple of hours.

Macro Flowers

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:59:07 +0000

Having just undergone back surgery, my wife was the recipient of several beautiful flower arrangements. That means…MACRO TIME!

First Saturday Car Show

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:27:26 +0000

May the 4th kicked off the 2013 season of car shows near our home. The First and Main Town Center does a car show every first Saturday. Today’s show was hosted by the Mustang Club. I am a sucker for old Mustangs, I love those cars. I walked around and got some decent shots.

American White Pelicans

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:07:21 +0000

There have been some Pelicans hanging out at Fountain Creek Nature Center. I went down there at lunch today. I guess I can probably blame “finding nemo”, whenever I do a pelican voice in my head, it has to have an Australian accent.

Bald Eagles of Fountain Valley School

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:43:21 +0000

A friend took me on the campus today to see the eagle’s nest. Both were there, and we were able to get a glimpse of both babies. I got caught changing settings and “chimping” and missed one of them take off from its perch! next time, next time.

Big Horn Sheep

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:14:54 +0000

Today about 30 minutes before I left work I saw a tweet about a herd of Big Horns over by Glen Eyrie. I took the long way home and drove over to check it out. The herd was about 18 head, all Rams. These guys amaze me. The beat up horns, the marks on the foreheads, just the look they give you…”don’t get too close, I will KNOCK YOU OUT!” The guard indulged me and let me hang out for a bit and get some great images. enjoy!

Snowy Day Herons

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:27:39 +0000

I went over to the lake at lunch yesterday. There was a gentle snow coming down, and three herons were on the same end of the lake. They were more interested in the fisherman’s stringers than me, so I managed to get pretty close.

Dressunited.com site Review

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:45:56 +0000

I recently ordered a t-shirt from Dress United. Dress United is a great site for ordering custom shirts and other items and they are a sister site to printcopia.com. The design portion was great, very easy to use. Check out the images below, it shows the front side design portion, and the back side design portion. As you can see, I used my very cool logo for bigmanwithacamera.com. I did mess up the design portion a bit, on the front I should have put the text into two lines, and made it a bit bigger. That’s not the sites fault, it was strictly a design mistake. The back looks awesome. The quality of the t-shirt is great. It’s a nice hanes cotton. I am a big guy (duh!), the hanes 3x is not a very big 3x. Trust me, I have a bunch of 3x t-shirts! it fits fine across the chest and belly, it is just not very long. So, when a big guy like me puts the shirt on and reaches for the sky, I might flash a little skin if you know what I mean! In short (hey, a pun!), the site is great. It’s super easy to make the design, and it’s also quite fun. I would highly recommend it. If you check them out, I have a coupon code for 30% off. Go to www.dressunited.com/redeem and type in the code BLOG30OFF4U. This code will give you 30% off and free shipping in the US. If you order a shirt, drop me a comment and let me know what you think.

Lie down with dogs

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:34:50 +0000

While walking the dogs yesterday, we took a little break so Laurie and Taylor could practice with the volleyball. I put my new 40mm pancake lens to good use.

Beaver Sighting

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:56:08 +0000

We met downtown to walk the dogs after work. We saw out first beaver of the year. He/She was a baby, really small. We’ll try and get back down there at dusk this weekend and see if we can see how many are in this years “litter”. The Heron let me watch him for a little while, no koi while I was watching. Taylor took the dogs pictures, with my 7D and 40mm.