January 2016 – A Photo A Day (Squarespace)

01-31-16 Winter Sports

There are a few good things about Minnesota snow. (Read More)

By Scott Shephard

People in warm climates sometimes ask why people live in cold places like Minnesota, where this photo was taken. There are many answers, most of which are convincing to someone like me. First, it’s home and that’s generally where family is. Second, if everyone moved to warm climates, place like Honolulu, San Diego and Cancun would be more crowded than they already are. Third, I am concerned that the cold weather apparel and tool industries would collapse. (China’s economy is already a bit unsettled!)

A less convincing reason is that we have snow and warm places don’t. Yesterday, when I was watching Brian and Glenyce sled down the hill at Minnesota State Fair Grounds, I was thinking that they can’t do that in Hawaii. And sometimes, when I walk on freshly fallen snow and hear the crunch under my shoes, I think that someone who has lived in southern California their whole lives has no idea of what they’re missing.

And the good thing about snow in the upper plains states is that it will melt away sooner or later. Maybe in May . . . .

Canon 5DIII 1/250s f/6.7 ISO200 102mm

01-28-16 Don’t Forget Glenyce Jane!

The equal time rule suggests that I should post one of Glenny J.

By Scott Shephard

If Glenyce Jane has looked at my photo blog recently, she might notice that the score for 2016 is sister Irene 2, Glenyce 0. That could lead to all kinds of things, including sibling rivalry. And I wouldn’t want to be party to that.

The problem was than on the day we were set up for the studio photos you’ve seen recently, Glenyce was not exactly cooperative. If I had been a better photographer, I’m sure that I could have done better than I did. But this photo works. It was my idea to bring in another “member” of the family. The Cabbage Patch doll was a willing and relaxed subject. Glenyce, on the other hand, wasn’t interested in my camera. She did smile once but not at me. That’s OK because sometimes it’s better if the subject is unaware of the camera.

Canon 5DIII 1/125s f/8.0 ISO100 58mm

Glenyce Jane

Sep 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, children, grandchildren, black and white, b&w

Sep 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, children, grandchildren, black and white, b&w

09-26-16 Come to the Window

Sep 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, children, grandchildren, black and white, b&w

Sep 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, children, grandchildren, black and white, b&w

Sep 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, children, grandchildren, black and white, b&w

Sep 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, children, grandchildren, black and white, b&w

Jul 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, 3 year old, black and white

Jul 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, 3 year old, black and white

07-26-16 Glamorous Glenyce

Jul 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, 3 year old, black and white

Jul 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, 3 year old, black and white

Jul 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, 3 year old, black and white

Jul 26, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, 3 year old, black and white

Jul 10, 2016

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Jul 10, 2016

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

07-10-16 Sister Act

Jul 10, 2016

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Jul 10, 2016

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Jul 10, 2016

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Jul 10, 2016

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Jun 14, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, playhouse

Jun 14, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, playhouse

06-14-16 Inside Looking Out

Jun 14, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, playhouse

Jun 14, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, playhouse

Jun 14, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, playhouse

Jun 14, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, playhouse

Feb 19, 2016

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Deb Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, infants

Feb 19, 2016

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Deb Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, infants

02-18-16 Trio

Feb 19, 2016

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Deb Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, infants

Feb 19, 2016

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Deb Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, infants

Feb 19, 2016

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Deb Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, infants

Feb 19, 2016

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Deb Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Irene Bernice Shephard, infants

Jan 31, 2016

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sledding, snow, Minnesota, Brian Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Minnesota State Fair

Jan 31, 2016

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sledding, snow, Minnesota, Brian Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Minnesota State Fair

01-31-16 Winter Sports

Jan 31, 2016

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sledding, snow, Minnesota, Brian Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Minnesota State Fair

Jan 31, 2016

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sledding, snow, Minnesota, Brian Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Minnesota State Fair

Jan 31, 2016

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sledding, snow, Minnesota, Brian Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Minnesota State Fair

Jan 31, 2016

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sledding, snow, Minnesota, Brian Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard

Minnesota State Fair

Jan 28, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

Jan 28, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

01-28-16 Don’t Forget Glenyce Jane!

Jan 28, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

Jan 28, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

Jan 28, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

Jan 28, 2016

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

Nov 8, 2015

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Glenyce DeGeest, family

Nov 8, 2015

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Glenyce DeGeest, family

11-08-15 Center of Attention

Nov 8, 2015

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Glenyce DeGeest, family

Nov 8, 2015

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Glenyce DeGeest, family

Nov 8, 2015

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Glenyce DeGeest, family

Nov 8, 2015

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Irene Bernice Shephard, Glenyce Jane Shephard, Glenyce DeGeest, family

Nov 4, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, fall, leaves

Nov 4, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, fall, leaves

11-04-15 Curiosity

Nov 4, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, fall, leaves

Nov 4, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, fall, leaves

Nov 4, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, fall, leaves

Nov 4, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard, fall, leaves

Oct 14, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

Oct 14, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

10-14-15 “Act Natural”

Oct 14, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

Oct 14, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

Oct 14, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

Oct 14, 2015

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Glenyce Jane Shephard

01-27-16 Father & Child

Am I obligated to give equal time? (read more)

By Scott Shephard

It seems fair that since I posted a photo of Katie and Irene a couple of days ago, I should post one of Brian and Irene, taken from the same morning session as Monday’s photo. This one is posed, of course, and all of the actors are playing their roles perfectly.

The people are real and so are the smiles. So what’s not to like?

Canon 5DIII 1/125s f/9.5 ISO100 58mm

And how about one from the first week of Ibby’s life?

01-25-16 Mother and Child

Even in “posed” photos you capture real and special moments. . . (read more)

By Scott Shephard

I don’t have the opportunity to do much studio portraiture these days and when I do, it’s rare that children have are my subjects. But in December Brian and Katie came to stay at our house for a while and I volunteered to do some family portraits.

This photo isn’t at all what we were trying for – Irene is supposed to be looking at the camera and smiling. So much for that! But what I got instead is a “real” photo of a real moment in the lives of Katie and her youngest daughter. And I like it, though you’ll have to forgive my bias. 🙂

Canon 5DIII 1/125s f/9.5 ISO100 73mm

Here’s one taken when Ibby (aka Irene Bernice) was about a week old.

01-12-16 Photographer At Work

What shoes do you wear when you go out to take photos? (read more)

By Scott Shephard

You may know our youngest son Jon as the captain of the Un-Cruise Adventures ship Wilderness Adventurer. But when he is on hiatus, as he is this winter, he spends some of his time in Hawaii. This year it gave Deb and me a good reason to go to Hawaii, too.

Here Jon is setting up for a photo at the Hawaiian Tropical Botanical Garden, where the orchid photo I posted a couple of days ago was taken. Like many good photographers in Hawaii, he is properly equipped: good camera and lens, solid tripod and fashionable flip flops.

Canon 5DIII 1/30s f/4.0 ISO400 55mm

01-11-16 Big Island Morning

Do you visit the Photo A Day blog once and a while? Thanks is you do. (read more)

By Scott Shephard

First, if you subscribe to this blog via email, thanks. It turns out that I have been sending the daily posts to the wrong group so I think I am welcoming some of you back. I hope you stay. Of course, if un-cluttering your life is a 2016 resolution, you can easily unsubscribe to this blog. But how about attacking that bloated junk drawer in your kitchen first? Or your sock and underwear drawer? Or you car’s glove compartment.

Second, those who are my friends on Facebook will have seen this photo already. Sorry to repeat myself.

But what about the photo? Well, it’s really 5 photos layered and processed as an HDR. And you’d never know it, but the sun was about 20 minutes from coming up. I shot this in twilight and needed a flashlight to see the camera settings! The longest exposure was 30 seconds and it looks almost like mid-day. There I go bending reality again. 🙂

I will also mention that the waves were crashing onto the rocks but the long exposure makes the water look relatively flat. The only evidence of the waves is the spray, which looks like low fog in this picture. More bent reality!

Finally, look closely and you will see two people in this photo sitting on the far shore by the palm trees. They are waiting for the sunrise, not for me to finish the 1 minute photo sequence. Because they are pretty sharply focused, they obviously sat very still for those 60 seconds.

Hawaiian sunrises will do that to you.

Canon 5DIII f/16.0 ISO200 40mm (5 shot HDR sequence)

01-09-16 Flying In Formation

Nice flowers. (read more if you want)

By Scott Shephard

My wife tells me in friendly ways that if I say too much in a blog post, people will stop reading. So today I’ll keep it simple:

Nice flowers. Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden. Hilo, HI.

Canon 5DIII 1/180s f/2.8 ISO400 100mm

01-08-16 Life Returns. Slowly.

After the volcano erupts, life returns. (read more)

Scott Shephard

One of the things that is striking about the so-called Big Island of Hawaii is that it is the “youngest” of all of the Hawaiian islands. What that means is that it is only 500,000 years old. On a human scale, that is really old, of course. But compare that number with the age of the rocks in the Black Hills in my home state of South Dakota – geologists say that they are around 2 billion years old. On a human scale that’s almost unimaginable.

But compare either the age of the Black Hills or that of Hawaii with the fact that the moss covered rocks you are looking at bubbled out of the depths of the earth in 1960. And a few miles from where I took this photo, you can walk on parts of the earth that were formed an hour ago. (The walk is imaginary given that the stones would melt your shoes.)

For me, the paradox of Hawaii is the lushness of so many parts of the island juxtaposed with the seeming bareness of places pictured here. But in the 55 years since the eruption that formed this ground, if you look closely, you will see that life is abundant. Give this area another half million years and watch out! It will be a jungle. Maybe.

Isn’t it odd that the “maybe” in that last statement is up to us and the choices we make today about preserving our planet? What took billions of years to form might be destroyed by 200 years of human inattention.

Canon 5DIII 1/15s f/16.0 ISO200 100mm

01-07-16 Into the Woods

Dark and mysterious? That’s how I saw it. You may have seen something else. (read more)

By Scott Shephard

Not too far from the place I captured in yesterday’s photo, I found this location. And, like many things I see in Hawaii, it is amazingly photogenic. This road is called Pohoiki Road and runs for a few miles though trees that arch over and shade the road.

I am fascinated by this place and suspect that the locals who drive this road every day don’t even notice its mystery and beauty. That leaves me wondering what we in the Northern Plains see every day that a person born and raised on the Big Island would be impressed with? Miles of flatland, covered in wheat, corn and sunflowers? Frozen lakes that you can walk on? Thunder and lightning? Lingering twilight that seems to last for hours in midsummer? All of these and many more are bound to impress.

Canon 5DIII 2s f/16.0 ISO400 24mm

01-06-6 So Many Textures

Can you call yourself a photographer when you don’t take your camera out of the bag? (read more)

By Scott Shephard

The most important part of getting a decent photo is getting the camera out of the bag. For me, believe it or not, that hasn’t been a regular thing for the two weeks we’ve been on the Big Island in Hawaii.

And so this morning just before sunrise I told Deb I was going out to look for photos. She asked, “Where?” and I said, “I don’t know. Maybe the lava fields nearby.” But the lava fields didn’t call me. Instead, I ended up at a place called Isaac Hale Park. I got out of the car (without my camera) walked out onto the rocky shore and watched the surf roll in.

I was actually back in the car with the motor running when my inner photographer voice, which I had put on mute weeks ago, asked, “Really?! You’re too lazy to take a photo of this?” I ended up taking many more here but this is the first one I processed.

There’s a lot going on in this photo – maybe too much. But at least I took my camera out of the bag . . .

Canon 5DIII f/16.0 ISO100 28mm (3 bracketed exposures combined in HDR Efex 2)

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