Living relatively close to an airforce base does provide the opportunity to catch some cool shots of our latest acquired fighter jet here in the Netherlands: the F-35, or in full: the “Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II”. This brand new toy is not without controversy however…
As I wrote in my previous article, I have been trying to learn more about image editing since I started my photography. And In the early years I reached out to a handful of professional photographers to learn the secrets of the trade. It was the last photographer I reached out to, if I recall correctly, who offered to provide a critique of my images…
OK, this is probably my longest article ever, but one I’ve been trying to get ‘on paper’ for quite a while.
In my previous post I referred to the fact I’ve spent the last decade, since I started my (digital) photography journey, figuring out how to transform the images I captured on my camera into something more similar as the ones we’re used to seeing in magazines and on the web.
Initially, I thought the ‘problem’ was with my camera (the Nikon D300S – my first DSLR); then I thought it was with my lenses, then I thought it was simply my lack of photography skills and experience, and then I figured it was probably a combination of all…
It has been over 10 months since my last post; I don’t know but it just seems that time is accelerating each year – I should lookup Einstein’s theories of relativity again.
So what is new and what has changed? Well let’s see…
For starters, I have been very busy with my regular (non-photography) work last year and at the start of this year with ongoing travels – not to Yellowstone or the Masai Mara unfortunately so not much chance to combine work with travel & photography. And then…
I know, this doesn’t make any sense. And I don’t know what I was thinking when we had visited Yellowstone’s ‘Old Faithful’ geyser earlier and went on to explore the geothermal springs in that same area, carrying my Nikon 600mm f/4E FL lens. For whatever reason I may have had hopes for some wildlife to pop up, but we had no such luck.
We had almost reached the end of our trail…
