These are images from various locations. I share them with you because of the beauty in our world.

If you are interested in copies for your wall, or wallpapers for your screen,let me know! You can right-click and open in another window to enlarge if you like. Remember these are purposely low quality to reduce chance of theft.

There are buttons on the Print Worthy page to download a few wallpapers as a gift.

Equipment I Use

I started with Canon years ago with the AE1 Program film camera. I loved the science behind photography after having done darkroom work in school. I didn’t have enough money, raising a family first, to afford the costs of film and developing. I got my first starter digital SLR, the EOS Rebel T5, but found the learning curve difficult. My biggest brain “duh” was understanding how the menus changed what buttons to push when you changed the settings. Once I figured that out it was fun again.

I invested in a better “pro/enthusiast” body, the EOS 90D, with a 32.5 megapixel crop sensor. I didn’t realize two things… the award winning “dual-pixel” auto focus system doesn’t function when viewed through the viewfinder!… it kicks in only when using the “live view” on the rear screen. AND the high pixel sensor demands high quality lenses to work well. The kit lenses just can’t deliver. This left me disappointed in my sharpness in photos. I thought it was something that I was doing wrong. So I had to then pay for “better glass”, as they call high quality lenses.

The lenses that I use with the 90D are…

Nifty Fifty; Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 (lightweight and great with low light)

Canon EF-s 35mm f/2.8 macro (good for macro and regular with good low light use)

Canon EF 70-200 f/4 zoom (no image stabilization means tripod use only)

Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD G2 zoom (excellent by the way!)

Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM / Contemporary zoom (love it!)

I do cropping and minimal editing with Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. I want the images to reflect what I saw while taking them. The new noise reduction works pretty well. It is hard to get a good shot of a hummingbird on a cloudy day with 1/2000 of a second without having lots of noise due to high ISO. It’s not like I am lying to win a competition or something unethical. I just want to show nature at its most lovely.

I’m saving up and researching for my next camera body, something in the Canon R# lineup is likely. Still considering mirrorless full frame. It would give me better auto-focus and the lower focal range I am missing out on since the crop-sensor multiplies everything by a 1.6x factor. I definitely want “in body image stabilization” and two card slots. The R5 looks tasty but the cost is tough to swallow if something better is on the horizon. Can’t afford dropping 6K to 10K on equipment willy nilly. There are rumors of a R5 Mark II coming out soon. Fingers crossed it does.