Earth Images Blog by Wayne Nelson

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Every once in a while I begin to put together a post and I realize that I really don’t have anything to say.  My usual answer to that dilemma is to go ahead and publish a post anyway.  So here … Continue reading →

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In a recent post I illustrated that I occasionally will make a close-up action shot of a bird, but accidentally cut its wing off…in the visual sense.  At minimum focusing distance this can happen with a small bird as well.  I … Continue reading →

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It seems like I have been writing a lot recently about clean and simple compositions.  There are images that will not fit that template that are also important. Flowers make some of the best “busy images”. Flower pictures with out … Continue reading →

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I meant to mention in yesterday’s Everything Old is New post that as far as I can remember, none of those images had ever been shown before. That is why I entitled it the way I did. The images were old, … Continue reading →

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One of the compositional concepts I deal with most often on these pages, is “clean and simple”  Less is more would be another appropriate cliché.  I do believe that any photographer who shares a large portfolio of work, needs variety.  … Continue reading →

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Unique lighting conditions always provide a mixture of difficulties and opportunities.  This extreme side lighting in Monument Valley gave a luminous quality to those foreground flowers.  At the same time it left much of those distant rock forms in near … Continue reading →

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Short Stories that is:  It seems there is nothing I’d rather do than collect a bunch of pictures and talk (or write) about them. Over the years when the opportunity has arisen to get some really close flight shots of … Continue reading →

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Photography:  What possible job or hobby could anyone have, that allows them to share subjects that fill us with passion, and do so with images that allow us to show our personalities.  I think this goes doubly when the natural world … Continue reading →

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We are on the cusp of a brand new year.  I mentioned in my Christmas issue that New Years Eve or Day, is not a favorite holiday of mine.  I have nothing against NYs, it is just not special to … Continue reading →

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This is not meant to be an anthology of my all of my Great-blue Heron images.  Too many of this species for that. The pictures below were all made at just two nests in one Illinois rookery.  Despite the similarity … Continue reading →