John Guilford's Photo Gallery: New Pictures

The most recent 9 pictures

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Unless otherwise noted, through 2011 all pictures taken by me with a Nikon D70 camera.
Depending on the focal length, the lens is most likely either the Nikkor 18-70mm AF-S or the Sigma 70-300mm DG APO.
Starting in 2012, I switched to the Nikon D7000 with either the Nikon 18-105VR lens or the Nikon 70-300 VR lens.

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Backyard Hummingbird
Date: 09-May-2012 Time: 2:31:53 PM Exp: 1/200s @ f/9.0 ISO: 200 Lens: 300.00mm Meter: Aperture Priority		This has been a good year for hummingbirds at our house with four plus birds buzzing (humming?) around our feeders. They are brave little birds and didn't mind my sitting 5 feet away on the deck photographing them. This guy was in the full sun, and the dark tree trunk in the background was in the shade, so the background appears black. I like the detail in the feathers that you can see in this image as well as his stunning coloration.

Waimea Rainbow
Waimea Canyon, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, is sometimes known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific. It is about 10 miles long and up to 3,000 feet deep. After we got rained on near the top of the canyon, the sun broke through, resulting in this rainbow.		Date: 21-Feb-2012 Time: 3:08:07 PM Exp: 1/250s @ f/8 ISO: 250 Lens: 18mm

Snowy Owl with Heron
Date: 11-Feb-2012 Time: 1:35 PM Exp: 1/640s @ f/9 ISO: 200 Lens: 300mm		It is rare for normally Arctic snowy owls to visit Washington state. This year an irruption of owls have been visiting. While photographing the owls along the north shore of Boundary Bay in British Columbia, a heron walked by behind the owl. This photo is a collage of three separate pictures (there weren't really three herons, it is the same one three times).

Splash of Wine
A splash of wine erupting from a goblet, this was a created image. I saw this technique on the internet, and I thought "I could do that." It is a bit messy, and it took a number of tries to get the timing down, but it was a fun way to spend a winter afternoon.		Date: 02-Jan-2012 Time: 2:43:41 PM Exp: 1/200s @ f/10.0 ISO: 200 Lens: 40.00mm Meter: Manual Flash: Manual

Butchart Sunken Garden at Night
Date: 06-Aug-2011 Time: 10:39:55 PM Exp: 2.1s @ f/4.0 ISO: 400 Lens: 18.00mm Meter: Manual		Butchart Gardens near Victoria on Vancouver Island, BC contains wonderful gardens. My favorite is the Sunken Garden that was built about a hundred years ago on the site of an old quarry where they had mined limestone for a cement factory. In 1953 miles of underground wiring was added to provide night time illumination. I especially enjoy this garden at night. This is a time exposure from the north rim of the Sunken Garden. Several places in the garden you can see "ghosts" of people who moved during the time exposure. The stack in the background is all that remains of the original cement plant.

Ross Fountain at Butchart Gardens
In Butchart Gardens, near Victoria BC, is the Ross Fountain, installed in 1964 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Gardens. The fountains are illuminated and constantly changing. At night it puts on an especially colorful show.		Date: 06-Aug-2011 Time: 10:26:48 PM Exp: 1.3s @ f/4.5 ISO: 400 Lens: 70.00mm Meter: Manual

Mt. Orville and John Hopkins Glacier
Date: 20-Jul-2011 Time: 9:44:14 AM Exp: 1/320s @ f/9.0 ISO: 200 Lens: 70.00mm Meter: Aperture Priority		Glacier Bay National Park in southeast Alaska is a stunning place. The scale can be so vast it can be hard to grasp the scale of things. This is Mt. Orville (10,272 ft), first climbed in 1995, towering over the John Hopkins glacier. From this distance, it is hard to appreciate the size of things. The John Hopkins glacier is a mile wide here, extending 250 feet above water (the size of a 25 story building) to 200 feet underwater. The glacier itself is 12 miles long and is flowing about 10 feet a day on average. It is one of the few tidewater glaciers currently advancing (most are receding). The glacier is actively calving as can be seen from all the floating ice in John Hopkins inlet. This picture was taken from a cruise ship about 5 miles away from the glacier's face.

Chihuly Bridge of Glass Closeup
This is a small part of the roof of the Chihuly Bridge of Glass at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA. This is a 500 foot long pedestrian overpass next to the museum. The 20 by 50 foot ceiling, called the "Seaform Pavilion" is made of 2364 glass art objects from Dale Chihuly's "Seaform" and "Persian" series and showcase an underwater motif. This image was made looking straight up from near the floor of the overpass.		Camera: Canon S410 Date: 09-Apr-2011 Time: 4:31:40 PM Exp: 1/125s @ f/2.8 Lens: 7.41mm Flash: None

Lanham Creek In Winter
Date: 19-Feb-2011 Time: 1:21:50 PM Exp: 1/3s @ f/14.0 ISO: 200 Lens: 31.00mm Meter: Aperture Priority		While snowshoeing up Lanham Creek near the Nordic Center at Stevens Pass in Washington, this little cascade caught my eye. I didn't have a tripod, and had to brace the camera against a tree for this 1/3 second time exposure. By that time of the day in winter, the sun had already left the valley floor, and it was dark enough to make it easy to take a long enough exposure to blur the running water.