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These are some of the photos I have taken on my journey
around the world. The photo above is of a mother Rhesus Monkey and her
baby. Africa you say? No!
Right here in California at the Sierra West
Wildlife Sanctuary near Santa Rosa.
There are so many sanctuaries here in California
that you really don't have to go to foreign lands to see these beautiful
animals in a natural environment.
This pair was less than 30 feet away from me and I was
shooting with a Sigma DG 50-500mm lens (actual mm was at 410mm) at F6.3 with an
exposure time of 1/125 second. No flash
needed as the day was bright and slightly overcast.
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It was a dark and stormy... well; you know the rest of that
story. This photo is of the Elmore, Minnesota
main water tower which sits on the only hill in this quiet little Southern
Minnesota town located about 10 miles East of Blue Earth right along the Iowa state
boarder. Being the Mid-West there are days where you can go from bright
sunny and no breeze to the most severe weather that is so often reported on in
the news. My mother-in-law lives in this farming community and we go back
as often as we can to visit. On this particular day the clouds rolled in
like a vengeance. Wind sheers, lighting, and rain so heavy that within a
few minutes of taking this photo I could not see this water tower. I
titled this photo "The Best Place to Live Next to During a Lightning
Storm"... the title is what most people would expect... however, the
people who actually live right next to the tower lost all their power when a
lightning bold hit the tower and part of the strike hit their home and knocked
out all their kitchen appliances... Yes... FRIED them!
On this photo I used a Sigma DC 18-50mm lens (actual shot
take at 33mm approximately 150 feet from the water tower). I shot the tower at F3.5 with the setting at 1/50
of a second. I was lucky that there was a light coming from a very small break in the clouds and it hit the tower just as I was taking this shot. I guess time is everything... yes it is!
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