Photo Featured on NEPA Poster
July 4, 2008 | Filed Under General, Jamaica, Outdoor | 2 Comments
A photo I took earlier this yea of a Zenaida Dove foraging in Emancipation Park has been featured on a National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) bird shooting season poster. It was kinda cool when I was contacted through Flickr and asked if my photo could be used and to think when I first took the shot I had no idea what kinda bird it was, but my recent interest in birds has taught me a lot and is already paying off. Below is the section of the poster which features my photo and further below is the original.
Click here to view the entire flyer
The Original Zenaida Dove Picture
I’m back home in Jamaica
June 30, 2008 | Filed Under Fauna, General, Outdoor, vacation | 1 Comment
After four onder weeks in the US I am happy to be back home. For 2 of the four weeks I was away I was without the proper use of my camera because I had misplaced the charger and so the batteries were dead. In the later half of the trip though I managed to get a replacement charger at a popular electronics store and I have started to update my flickr account with 2-4 pictures per day and will continue to do so for many weeks to come. Check there regularly for pictures and I will be posting some of my more favourite ones here as well. Here are a few below:
Empire State Building Second Da in New York
US Capitol Building in Washington DC
Air Jamaica on the Runway in New York
Flamingo in the National Zoo Washington DC
Do you love me?…buy me this car!
April 29, 2008 | Filed Under Events and Happenings, General, Outdoor, motor vehicles | 6 Comments
I saw this sexy work of European engineering art at the Liguanea Fine Art and Photography Festival that I attended over the weekend.
It was a great festival and I strolled around looking at the various booths, snapping pictures and meeting and greeting accomplished and upcoming artists. I fell in love with the Audi TT Roadster on display at the show though. I want it!…but being able to have it will take lots of work so I now have one of these pictures as my desktop wallpaper for…inspiration.
Learning about birds through Photography
April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Fauna, General, Jamaica, Outdoor | 6 Comments
The latest thing photography has opened my eyes to is birds. There are all kinds of birds in Jamaica of all shapes and sizes but since taking up photography I have really learned to appreciate them and learn their proper names and characteristics. At first all I thought about them was that they would make interesting photographs but after many days of photographing pelicans and seagulls in the Kingston harbour and snapping shots of various birds in emancipation park I have come to appreciate them, especially after being attacked my a vicious Greater Antillean Grackle who didn’t want his photo taken and heard a Northern Mockingbird mimic the sounds of a car alarm.
Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Grackle that attacked me
Looking forward to taking more photographs of birds in Jamaica. I will be planning a few trips as soon as the finances allow me to but right now birds ate one of my favourite things to take pictures of.
This shot of a Northern Hummingbird is one of my favourites
Emancipation Park Panoramic Picture
March 1, 2008 | Filed Under General, Jamaica, Outdoor, panoramic | 5 Comments
My first panoramic trial and error pictures were of Kingston harbour, decided to try another panoramic shot but this time of Emacipation Park which as I said in a previous posts is one of my favourite locations currently to get my newbie photography action on.
My friends think it’s dark but I like the lighting in the shot, the sky and the park lights which were just coming on in the evening.
Speaking of emancipation park I have been having almost daily photo sessions with birds at the park. I have watched them fight, bathe and hunt worms. It seems that spring is in the air and the birds are out in their numbers. I have already posted a few on my flickr page but expect an update here and a few of my better shots as soon as I find the time to sort through them all.
New Kingston Jamaica Skyline Photographs
February 26, 2008 | Filed Under General, Jamaica, Outdoor | Leave a Comment
I work on a tall(ish) building by Jamaica’s standards. While collecting my minimum wage monthly salary statement yesterday in the accounts department of the government ministry I noticed the great view from the 11th floor of the building of the skyline of New Kingston. Snapped a few shots, the better looking of which are posted below.
Moon Elipse Last Night
February 21, 2008 | Filed Under Events and Happenings, General, Outdoor, Sky and Astronomy | 1 Comment
Normally an eclipse of the moon would not be a very interesting event to me, but as a photographer I am learning to appreciate, look forward to and of course take pictures of more things in this life. I took a heck of a lot of pictures and saved the best 3 of all them. Check out my favourite one enlarged below as well as the thumbnails of the other two. ANy of my Jamaican friends or other photographers anywhere in the world take any pictures of this “astronomical” event?
Flower Lovin’
January 17, 2008 | Filed Under Flora, General, Jamaica, Outdoor | 4 Comments
I love photographing flowers and I have tonnes of pictures of them although I have only uploaded a few to my Flickr account. Here are a couple of my favourites so far.
View more in the Flower and Plants section of my flickr albums.
Emancipation Park
January 10, 2008 | Filed Under Flora, General, Jamaica, Outdoor | 2 Comments
One of my favourite places to take photos is the Emancipation Park in New Kingston, Jamaica. I pass it almost everyday on my way home from work and it’s a popular meeting spot for me and my friends. Here is a selection of some of the photos I have taken there over the past few weeks.
