South African Travels continued...

Can't say enough about the time we spent at Zulu Nyala in June.

South African Travels

My trip to South Africa was an amazing excursion into a world unlike anything I've experienced before. My photography has been limited to western Pennsylvania for most of my life. Going outside of my world here and traveling to Zulu Nyala was a big step toward expanding how I look at things and therefore photograph them. Just back and already I'm thinking about my next trip to a place to capture more unique images.

Whitetail Winter

A photo from last winter.

Test

A royal wedding in Sewickly. Shane and Johanna were married on June 4, 2011.

Portrait of Rachel

View from the Brooklyn Bridge

Twisted Branch Whitetail Farm

Buhl Park

January 2011

iPad Shipped Today

I preordered an iPad on March 30th and was planning for delivery after April 12th based on the confirmation email I got. However tonite I just received and email from Apple saying my 64GB WiFi iPad has shipped. I'm excited, I got to play with one last Saturday at MacOutfitters in Cranberry, PA and I loved the photo app. As an iPhone user I can't wait to be able to have a little more elbow room with this thing and I'm looking forward to some of the new apps being released for like Netflix and ABC . I'm looking forward to the possibilities this iPad will have as a tool for photographers, mostly as a presentation device.

Vincent Laforet has plans to send his portfolio out digitally to art buyers on iPad's and has already order a number of them with that in mind. I'd like to see Lightroom in a scaled down version for the iPad that would make presentations at weddings possible or as a way to present my photos to clients as well. But sorry, at least for now my iPad is going home with me!

Updated Home Page

http://tomdarbyphotography.com

So I got tired of the water falls image on my home page and created a new page from a set of photos I took recently of a Carolina Wren. My wife has been watching one of the birds come to the feeder the last few years but has never seen the pair together until the other day.

Winter Sunset

Finding color an images in the winter can be a challenge but this shot was worth pulling off the side of the road for. I just hope I did it justice.

Happy New Year!

I took this photograph in December but I never posted it so here's one to start the year off right. My 2010 Western Pennsylvania Calendar is now available as either a desk calendar or a wall calendar. Please let me know if your interested and I can give you a price with shipping to mail one or more out.

Playing Catch UP

This photo reminds me of sitting in a church with beautiful stained glass windows. So thats what I call it Nature's Stained Glass Window. Hope you like.

Its All About The Environment

Its amazing to me that I can be standing beside a beautiful lake with all the fall colors reflecting brilliantly off the surface of the water. Then as I'm composing the image in my viewfinder I spot something out of place. No its not the sign for a truck stop in the distance that bears down on you as you drive along the interstate. I can almost disregard that since its a minor item in the image. The thing that seems even more out of place is right near me in the lower left hand corner of the image. A white toilet is emerging out of the water like some alien space ship. Why would anyone decide that they needed to dispose of a toilet in a lake? The effort alone of getting it there makes me wonder. Not just the fact that this is pollution in its most hideous sense. I hope you like today's photo even though I left the toilet in the picture and didn't photo shop it out for esthetic purposes.

Home Page Updated

New photo of Leesburg Falls in Mercer Co., Pennsylvania. I know its been a long time since I've posted here and I need to get caught up. I promise more new photos coming and hopefully some exciting news about some upcoming photo projects. You can this photo and more on my home web site: http://tomdarbyphotography.com

Tom and Barb dancing at their wedding

Tom and Barb's wedding was a beautiful affair. They danced the night away at the reception.

Tricked Out Trucks

And another one from the same shoot.

While I'm on the subject of photographing vehicles. Here's a couple of images from a shoot I did for Jones Performance Inc. of West Middlesex, PA.

Shelby Mustang GT500

Sunday I did a photo shoot for the owner of this beautiful 2008 GT500. The owner is from West Virginia but we shot the car on the South Side of Pittsburgh.

5D Mark II Test Video

This is my first attempt to do a video upload to the blog. This is nothing more than me filming my tomato's and lily growing on our back deck in the rain. Comments are welcome as always
This video is much smaller than the 1080p HD video that the camera produces. It has been compressed significantly by the blog process to work in this space.