Steve Walker

Great series. I am especially fond of the one where he is standing on his tiptoes, ready to take off. Well done.

I didn’t intend to show all images in the gallery, just the 1 high key picture. I tried to delete the post but that didn’t work. The oof shot was just one that my wife asked for. It includes my tendency to overestimate the steadiness of my hands.

Thanks, guys. This one was nestled in the shade and down low.

Your composition focuses us. Nicely done.

I agree with Tersha. Must be the definition of the prairie.

The front hooves on the top image seem shaggy. I wouldn’t have expected that in a show horse, especially during the jumping. You’ve captured both riders and horses paying attention. I particularly like the manes– sharp and obviously in motion from their movement. Well done.

Sweet. Probably less recreation and more about food hunting.

Thank you, but this is an example of how photographs are not purely representations of life. This is less the setting and more the way I feel about it at times. Our porch and yard are much messier than it appears in the background here. There are 2 major highways within 2 miles of our house; and, frequently, a lot of road noise results.

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Love the lighting. The fallen petals add informality to the otherwise formal structure.

Thank you. At 7am, it’s already too warm and humid to make that easy so my photo has to conjure the feeling as a substitute.

Photography calls us to find joy in being alive by seeing rather than sleepwalking through our days. Well done.

My experience was much like yours. I didn’t even try to add my 2x teleconverter. The set up is too heavy for my ballhead and gives lens creep. I also had to use live view, zoom in to manually focus. It takes practice and calm under time pressure.

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Very inviting. Nice leading line, of course. Crunchy textures and an overall gorgeous scene and pretty spectacular sunrise/set.  Golden hour light always makes me say “ahhhh.”

To my eye and monitor, the cloud at the top of the frame is a bit dark, as though a graduated filter effect was a little more than needed, though I have seen and have…[Read more]

I do like this. I have little to no success with clean edits that remove objects, probably because I am using Lightroom rather than Photoshop which is much more powerful for this sort of change.

For good measure, another from a different angle…