Black powder

When shooting a black powder rifle, the shock of the percussion and the subsequent smoke hide any detail of the blast that produced them.   Luckily I was able to capture that moment in this shot.

Wedding in Tuscany

We hiked up to the local hill top castle town, Certaldo, during our stay in Tuscany at Tre Stelle winery.   The church was being readied for a wedding later that afternoon.    The bride and groom's car drove up as we were taking in the scene - you can't get much more perfect than that can you.   Great opportunity to capture a local event.

Nighttime in San Gimignano

This shot was taken during a lighting festival of the hill town - San Gimignano-  just after sunset.   ISO was set at 1250, 55 mm, f2.8 at 1/24 sec.

Trevi Fountain

This is a time-lapse photograph I took at Trevi fountain in Rome.   I set the ISO to about 50 and the shutter to about 1/5 of a second at aperture F/11.     Final processing was done in Adobe Lightroom.

Eagle II

Two more photographs of the Eagle as it took fight and flew away.

Eagle

This eagle was perched on the branch in a shallow wet land area near Ft. Casey.    I was able to get within about 100 yards before it decided that I was close enough.

Digesters

The digesters were too stubborn to completely go over with the digester house.    Amazing to see these riveted steel pressure vessels - each 90,000 gallons in size, lined with 6+ inches of brick.

Photography Technique

Becoming an Athlete - Behind the Scenes from Max Riché on Vimeo.

This is an interesting video documenting how a series of photographs was setup and made using strobes to be later combined into one image.

Guitar Making

Click on the photograph above to take you to a gallery of images documenting my construction of a Hauser inspired classical guitar.

Amanita muscaria

Apparently I've exceeded the number of photographs that I can upload to my blog. Did not know that they are uploaded to Picasa. As a result future photographs will be linked to my photography web site in an unlisted directory. What a pain.   Below is the first.

Found this darling in my yard - a whole crop sprung up over night.   According to what I can find on the internet about this beauty is that it is a poisonous psychoative fungus.  Apparently this is eaten and deaths are rare.