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Awkward family photo

Skipping rocks on the water and dreaming of setting sail and seeing the world.

Me sitting atop a retired box car with the cowboy boots and the blue jeans. This was also meant to be a self portrait.

There was NO ZOOM used here. This hawk boldly but altertly allowed me to lay in a prone position and photograph him from just under 2 feet away as he began to pick this squirrel apart.

Sunset near Seattle.

Long exposure picture of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Mallard duck and his reflection near the Hoh Visitor Center at Olympic National Park, Washington.

River crossing on the summit trail to New York state's highest peak, Mt. Marcy.

Dock benches on Lake Washington park, rendered in
Photoshop to enhance shape, character and lessen normal metal and dark wood tones.

pallet knife rendered photo of old Fort Worden Command Bunker near Pt Townsend, WA

Surf fisherman casting on the pacific shores of Oylimpic National Park near Kalaloch Lodge and camp ground.

A boy and his dad under the Huntington Beach Pier, in the bright light of a late afternoon sun, taken with a 300 mm lens to obtain the basic form of the boy.

Enjoying the camp fire

Fly Fishing The Arkansas at Buena Vista Colorado

Mine at Victor Colorado

Wagon in Manitou colorado

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts rises above in the Kansas City skyline.

Sunrise the day I left Virginia

Flower on GSW campus

Prarie dog in South Dakota

10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

A boy and his dad under the Huntington Beach Pier, in the bright light of a late afternoon sun, taken with a 300 mm lens to obtain the basic form of the boy.

A boy and his dad under the Huntington Beach Pier, in the bright light of a late afternoon sun, taken with a 300 mm lens to obtain the basic form of the boy.

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Photo Information

Copyright:

© LeRoy LaCelle.
All rights reserved.

Image Source:

digital

Date Taken:

05.2010

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24

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Camera Information

Date Uploaded:

Sept. 30, 2012, 10:11 p.m.

Camera Make:

Camera Model:

PENTAX *ist DS

Focal Length:

300mm

Shutter Speed:

1/125

Aperture:

f11

ISO:

ISO200

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PHOTO LOCATION Huntington Beach, California, United States of America