Old Fossil

This wonderful guy was in the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City, UT. A truly awesome display of dinosaurs. I left my tripod home so had to hand hold while shooting in very low light. This one was for 1/6th of a sec. I am feeling like an old fossil, I think I will change my on-line photo to this one. LYLE

Full Moon

I shot this last night with a 500mm lens on my D700. I was actually mildly surprised at the outcome. I did crop into it just a bit to get it big enough but even before I cropped it it looked pretty good. The lens has an aperture of f/4. It is very touchy and hard to focus. LYLE

Strawberry Flower

I went out at noon today looking for something to shoot. There is this nice little stream running past the conference center belonging to the Church. There are strawberries growing along the bank. I was shooting in manual but this has been quite manipulated prior to posting it. LYLE

Farmington Bay Sunset Vert

This is another shot of Farmington Bay. I quite liked the composition with the cracked mud foreground and clouds that bring you to the mountains. I shot it in Aperture Priority, f/8, 1/200 sec, as I said before, it didn't matter which way I turned the camera, it was a great scene. LYLE

State Capitol Dome

I used a borrowed 500mm mirror lens (Quantaray) that is manual focus and very difficult to use. I took about 15 different shots with it and only saved 3 of them due to poor focus. But this one came out quite nice. I did have to straighten it up and I put a light vignette on it just to get it to punch a bit. LYLE

Dark Tulip

A friend of mine has one of those $125.00 500mm fixed lens. It is a mirror type that is totally manual and very touchy. I was about 4 feet from the flower and shooting in manual with that lens. I seriously underexposed the photo but liked it very much when I opened it. This one has not been touched in Photoshop at all, just the way I shot it. LYLE

Farmington Bay Blue Sunset

This is a 5 shot HDR that I tonemapped and Photoshopped, (there, I said it), I did it!! But then I think of myself as an artist rather than as a photographer. LYLE