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My 65th Birthday Present!
My beautiful wife Cheryl commemorated by 65th birthday with this beautiful CASE brand knife that she had inscribed. I’m now officially a senior citizen. I’ve been a collector of folding pocket knives for many years and this addition just made my day! I’m especially fond of CASE knives as they are made in the USA, good quality and are affordably priced. The American flag on the stag handle couldn’t have been more perfect for an old patriot like myself. Thank you honey!!! This knife was not photographed conventionally but rather I light painted it. Here’s the nitty gritty: 1. Knife was set up on a table top in my studio.…
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Moth resting on a flower.
Caught this moth taking a rest on a beautiful pink flower. Photogaphed with a Nikon D7100, 24.3 MP DSLR and a Nikon 40 mm MACRO lens. ISO 100, F11, 1/125th. MANUAL MODE
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Ant on a pink plant
I happend to catch this ant wandering around a flower. Ants actually do seek nectar from flowers but because they have very little hair so there is no place for pollen to stick on them so they are rather poor pollenators. Photographed with: Nikon D7100, Nikon 40 mm MACRO lens, Nikon SB-400 flash (hand held off camera), tripod mounted. ISO 400, 1/100th, f11, MANUAL MODE.
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Model Train meets Real World – New Amtrak Station, Wallingford CT
This image begins with a trip to Wallingford CT where, along with my wife Cheryl, we photographed the new Amtrak Train Station. This station was built about three years ago and ia 1/4 mile north of the original Train Station. Then the Conrail GP-40 locomotive, N-Scale (1:160) Atlas train, along with Kato’s N-Scale Amtrak passenger cars were photographed in my studio. It is important to photograph the miniature trains, (each car about 3″ long and 1″ high), at as close to the same perspective as where they are going to end up in the actual photograph or the image won’t be usuable. I do this by having the train station…
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Model train meets real world. Train crossing Middlefield CT.
An Atlas model railroad N-Scale, 1:160th, Conrail GP-40 locomotive from the 1970’s with freight cars was photographed in my studio using a Nikon D7100, Nikon 105mm F2.8 lens. The train consisted of 62 images all at various focus points and merged into one final photograph using Helicon Focus Stacking Software. I also photographed the railroad crossing and old building at the Middlefield CT train crossing on West St. Using Photoshop CC 2022 I merged the miniature train image into the real life image of the Middlefield train crossing to create this image.
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Model train meets real world. Harrison Rd., Wallingford CT
An Atlas model train, (N-Scale 1:160), of a Conrail GP-40 locomotive from the 70’s with cars was photographed in studio. A 1970’s diecast model Ford Pickup was also photographed in studio. A Nikon D7100 with a Nikon 105MM, F2.8, MACRO lens was used. The train consisted of 62 images all at various focus points and merged into one final photograph. The car consisted of 18 images all at various focus points and meged into one final photography. Helicon Focus stacking software created the final images. The scene is a railroad crossing on Harrison Rd. in Wallingford CT. photographed with a Sony A7RII 42.2 MP mirrorless camera and a Sony 24-105,…
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Model train meets real world. Original trains station downtown, Wallingford CT
Using photoshop I merged a close up photo of an N scale (1:160) model train with an actual image of Wallingford CT’s downtown railroad station. The locomotive EMD SD P4 F and each passenger car is about 5″ long and about 1″ tall. They type 1 phase II which represents the type of engine, cars and paint scheme that rain the tracks of Amtrack in CT during the late 70’s and 80’s. The Wallingford Railroad Station, built in 1871 by the Hartford & New Haven Railroad on the Springfield Line is an historic building as still stands today. It was a daily stop along Amtrak’s New Haven, Hartford, Springfield line…
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From the “cactus” family of plants
This plant is from the cactaceae family best known for cactus’s. This is one of our house plants and it’s an all green plant. It has numerous “spikes” on it’s leaves. I rendered it B & W in photshop. Photographed with a Nikon D7100 24.3 mp DSLR and a 40mm Nikon macro lens. To ensure sharpness throughout the image I took (16) images at different focus points and “focused stacked” all the layers into one final image. ISO 100, 1/125, f8, various studio lights.
