Nature and Wildlife Photographer Tony Middleton's Blog

Busy Busy...

2009-02-03T09:25:00.003-05:00

Sorry again for not posting anything in so long, but I've been busy leading the activities for my local camera club, and sharing my knowledge of photography. As soon as the weather here in Indiana gets better, I'll be out and about shooting again. I'm working on my studio technique right now so I will post some of my efforts as soon as I feel I have something that looks decent.

Still Alive!

2008-11-03T11:36:00.004-05:00

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted, but I hope to be back on a closer to normal schedule (once a month???) again soon Here's a recent fall picture to hold ya over till I can get back again with some more news.

Who's evolved?

2008-04-15T20:04:00.001-04:00

Had to share. Taken at the Toledo Zoo over this last weekend.

Cranky Model

2008-04-05T18:32:00.004-04:00

I sympathize with you glamor photographers out there. My model was giving me a mouthful about interrupting her dinner break. See if I call her agency again!

New Chapter

2008-03-28T13:00:00.004-04:00

I've been a Pentax photographer for twenty five years now, but today I bought a Nikon D60 and so far I'm really liking it. I'll still have my Pentax cameras, but will slowly begin moving to the Nikon side as money allows.

A New Face!

2008-02-19T21:20:00.002-05:00

After much thought, and searching for the kind of graphics that more reflected my personality, the web page has been updated. Check it out, drop me a line to let me know what you think.

The problem with Winter...

2008-02-06T20:45:00.001-05:00

It's just so hard to get out and find something interesting in nature to get a picture of. I've got a few things to show you.

And so it begins

2007-12-05T23:09:00.001-05:00

The first snow hit us here and I felt the need to do the Black and White thing with the snow on the plants. It's gonna melt in a few days, so I'll get some more after the next snow fall.

Last of the Fall shots

2007-11-25T22:57:00.000-05:00

The weather here in Indiana is starting to get close to freezing at night so I suspect that this will be the last of my fall shots. I was exploring Cope Environmental Center on the outskirts of Richmond Indiana to get this shot.

Sunset

2007-11-17T13:23:00.000-05:00

The clouds were reflecting the sunset real nice this night. I wasn't in a good spot to get a real nice shot, but still pretty.

Website closer to my mind's vision

2007-11-11T14:04:00.000-05:00

I've done some hacking over the last few weeks, and gotten my website, almost to where I want it to be. I tripped across a great Gallery program for making a slide show, of sorts, so it can make posting more galleries easier for me to do. For now the most recent shoots are posted, and I'm sorting, and adding more as I decide what is worthy, and what must die.

It may be longer between posts as we've hit the rainy season here in Indy and I'm opposed to going out in the rain to not get good shots anyway. As I'm going through my archives and sorting, I'll ad some gems here as I trip across them.

Here kitty kitty!

2007-10-29T00:33:00.000-04:00

Had to share this one. On a mini safari to the local zoo for some Halloween festivities, the lion decided he was ready for a closeup. We could literally hear him purring.

No!!! Film is not dead yet?!?

2007-10-28T15:28:00.000-04:00

I love the fact that people think that film photography is dead. In just the past few months I've had people give me their old film based things like lenses and darkroom related stuff just because they found out that I'm a active photographer. Although most have gone totally digital, I still get a thrill by developing my own pictures. Something about the totally analog, wet chemical process that gets into my blood and makes me want to make magic with silver and water.

As soon as our bathroom restoration gets done, I'm going to set up my temporary darkroom and play again with some of the new (brought back from the dead?) toys that I've recently inherited. I'll post some prints when I get a chance.

2007-10-23T19:18:00.000-04:00

One of my favorite shots from last weekend at Lake Erie across from Cedar Point Park.

The heat is on, but the weather is cool!

2007-10-23T18:00:00.000-04:00

Well I've got the blog pretty much where I want it as far as appearance so now the heat is on to get my main web page shaped up so it is more in the line of what I meant it to be. When I started this whole "photograph3r" thing, it was my attempt to get some of my photographic art out into the world and possibly make a little spending money while at it.

I've got around eight or so of my prints in various Coffee Houses and Restaurants in the area, but so far no sales. A shot to the ego to say the least, but I'm hanging in there and improving my skills as I go along.

The leaves are starting to change so I need to go to my favorite parks in the area and get some good fall pics before all the color is lying on the ground. Hopefully I can can get some pretty pictures to share with you all before the week is out.

2007-10-22T19:50:00.001-04:00

That's more like it, bigger is better. One of the paths in a local wooded park.

2007-10-22T19:45:00.000-04:00

Okay, the first post as a test. This picture was taken at the inlaws of one of my favorite subjects, the semi domesticated squirrels.

I am photograph3r, and you can too

2007-10-22T18:44:00.000-04:00

First time at doing this blog thing, but here it goes.

Photograph3r is my artistic outlet for my photographic urges. I by nature gravitate towards Nature and Wildlife photography. I can and do some people shots, but find animals and nature much more enjoyable to shoot. I'll try and post on a somewhat regular basis pictures from my latest outings.

Enough for now till I figure out what I am doing here.