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Conowingo Eagle Season 2011

Joel — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:34:28 +0000

While there were a few more eagles this week, there still aren’t as many as I remember seeing in years past.

Ophelia Swell

Joel — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:54:58 +0000

Katia, Days 2 & 3

Joel — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:26:09 +0000

In the interest of keeping everyone sane, I’ve merged the images from Katia into one large gallery. The images I chose as “selects” were those that I felt captured the peak action, position and focus… in other words, the best images I was able to capture over the course of the storm. If you can’t [...]

Katia, Day 1

Joel — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:38:23 +0000

Katia’s swell was making itself noticeable this afternoon and around high tide there were some spotty shoulder to overhead sets arriving. A moderate onshore wind was keeping things a bit bumpy and making the waves closeout, however. For this reason, I didn’t get in the water with the SPL housing and decided to just shoot [...]

Irene Pics

Joel — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:35:25 +0000

Meh. It was a weird weekend… a lot of running around. Lackluster slop from Irene started to pick up by late Friday, and just when it was starting to get good everyone was ordered out of the water by the rangers ~ 4pm. Beach access was cutoff everywhere. A driving ban went into effect on [...]

Irene is almost here…

Joel — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:59:00 +0000

And people are losing their minds. I don’t know… maybe it’s me, but I’ve been through a lot of hurricanes up and down the east coast and I don’t ever remember this much hype before. I must be getting old. We get some strong winds, we get a load of rain for a day or [...]

Surf Weekend with the SPL Housing

Joel — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:51:04 +0000

My first weekend in the water in a long time… and my first time with a waterhousing attached to my wrist. So incredibly different than shooting from land with the big guns, and a lot to get used to. Some highlights:

Gallery: Full gallery can be found at this link

What I learned: [...]

Re-organizing Lightroom Catalogs

Joel — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:16:40 +0000

Old habits die hard. Ever since Lightroom was launched in 2007 I’ve been organizing my Lightroom catalogs by year. Each January I’d fire up Lightroom and start a fresh catalog for that year. It kept things neat and tidy. Catalogs remained within a reasonable size, ran quickly and if I had to find an image [...]

Adirondacks

Joel — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:19:14 +0000

I asked for clouds, and clouds I got – along with tons of rain.

Four straight days of clouds, mist, thunderstorms & heavy rain made hiking and photography rather difficult. Steep vertical climbs on slick fungus-covered boulders, wet roots and muck greeted me at each trailhead. What a difference from flat old Delaware. The challenge [...]

Testing out Ecto, MarsEdit

Joel — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:20:52 +0000

In an effort to make scheduling and writing blog articles more efficient, I thought I’d try out some dedicated software on my MacBook Air.

Ecto and MarsEdit were my two picks, and of those two I really liked MarsEdit better because it was able to edit pages as well as posts. However, after trying to [...]

Forcing Myself to Write

Joel — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:58:48 +0000

It’s been mighty quiet around here on the blog, but I can assure you it’s *not* because I haven’t been busy.

I’ve been going through one of those overly introspective phases/ruts where I’m second guessing everything. Should I post this? Is it “worth it” or does it even matter to anyone out there? Meh. I’ve [...]

Waiting For Spring

Joel — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:38:11 +0000

Nothing extraordinary, just a relaxing look at a few backyard critters doing their thing in the snow.

Music: Frost Waltz by Kevin MacLeod/incompetech.com

My Expandable 10 Terabyte Storage Solution

Joel — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:55:22 +0000

I tried to ignore it. Tried to shut it out. Tried my hardest, but the nagging, uncomfortable voice in the back of my head wouldn’t go away. Whenever I’d sit down to start importing gigabytes upon gigabytes of images to my office workstation the voice would become more persistent. It kept whispering to [...]

Backyard Bandit: Coopers Hawk Visits Feeder

Joel — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:00:16 +0000

Here at the ranch, we like to keep several well-stocked bird feeders setup to help our little passerine friends make it through the rough winter months. It would appear, however, that someone else has been noticing the generous amount of winter bird traffic being generated by our little endeavor.

A few weeks ago while headed [...]

Barnegat Inlet, Early January

Joel — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:00:17 +0000

Frigid. Windswept. Hostile.

And yet many creatures choose to call this place home, even at this time of year. I enjoy visiting them in the dead of winter when they’ve reclaimed what’s rightfully theirs.

Suiting up for the sub-zero sand hike still reminds me of some kind of half-assed lunar landing, but the long journey is [...]