Gulls

Potomac River

There are few photographic clichés as timeworn as a gull sitting on a piling, but there is something irresistible about it just the same. When I woke up I saw these gulls enjoying the early morning calm before beginning their raucous day. It's not my fault they were sitting on a piling.

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Persephone

Potomac River - August 25, 2013

The sailboat Persephone makes her way up the Potomac River last Sunday evening. Sailboats this size are not a common sight on the Potomac, and boats with a junk rig (also known as Chinese lugsail) are even more unusual.

Window and chimney

Claiborne County, Mississippi

Wild grass

Greene County, Virginia 

This photo was taken with the new Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC OS MACRO lens that I have been working with over the past couple of weeks. My "testing" of this lens consists of simply taking pictures and examining the results. There are plenty of places on the internet that test and report on lenses in great technical detail with resolution figures and MTF charts and such, but I am mostly interested in how the pictures look. This photo is a good example of what I consider to be very pleasing rendering of out of focus areas. This is the first lens made by Sigma that I have owned, and so far I am quite happy.

The wild grass pictured here is very common in this area, but I have not been able to identify it. It might be Purpletop (Tridens flavus) but I am not sure. Anyone know what this is called?

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Update: A couple of readers have informed me that this is Johnson Grass (Sorghum halepense)

August on the lake

Greene County, Virginia

A couple of weeks ago I purchased a new Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC OS MACRO lens. This lens is part of the new Sigma lens lineup that was announced last September and became available in Pentax mount earlier this year. The photo above was taken on my first outing with the new lens. I will have more pictures to show, and more to say about this lens in the coming days.

Botanicals #7 - Hosta

Greene County, Virginia

Third Sunday - August 2013

Franklin County, Mississippi 

Meadville Presbyterian Church - 1910 

A few miles down the road from Bude, Meadville is the county seat of Franklin County. The Presbyterian Church was organized in 1906 and dedicated this wood frame building on May 29, 1910. This photograph was taken in April, 2013.