Becca's Photographic Adventures
 From here you can
navigate to my various photo galleries, documenting in most cases my
vacation experiences.
I hope you enjoy the pictures, accessible
via links in the left column of this page. All
copyrights are reserved, no commercial use without prior permission from
me, etc., but if you'd care to download a copy of a given photo for
personal use as your computer desktop wallpaper, please feel free.
Galleries
Following are the galleries currently posted:
- Northwest Vacation 2002—Pictures
taken during a solo road trip in 2002, during which time I visited
various spots up the west coast from Mendocino to Seattle, also
featuring Crater Lake.
- Northwest Vacation 2003—A
year later and a similar trip, although in reverse order. Here
though, the only photos are from Crater Lake and Mendocino.
- Southwest Sojourn 2004—A
trip in May '04, visiting the Grand Canyon, Sandia Crest, the Jemez
valley, and Bandelier National Monument.
- Yosemite National
Park 2004—Our second trip of the year, this time to Yosemite in
August.
- Close to Home—Photos
from local parks and from near my home in Boulder Creek.
- Experiments—Extreme
digital manipulation of various photos, which some might think
interesting or artistic, and others might think quite demented and
indicative of mental breakdown.
- Becca's Treehouse—A
gallery featuring the treehouse I started building during the summer
of 2004, in progress as of this past November.
- Death Valley 2004—Photos
from a mid-December day-trip to various places in Death Valley.
- Monterey 2005—A
few of the pictures taken during our February 2005 trip to the
Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The Photographic Equipment
Until just a few years ago, the best camera I'd owned was a 35mm Canon
Rebel SLR. Nice camera in all, but there was one major problem.
Every single shot was equivalent to some money out of pocket for the
film and processing.
Then in early 2002, we got a
Fuji Finepix 6900 digital camera.
Listed as a 6-megapixel camera, it was actually a 3-megapixel model that
achieves seemingly higher resolution through interpolation.
Freed of the incremental cost of taking each picture, I finally had the
freedom to take as many photos as I wanted—which
meant I was also free to make lots and lots of mistakes as I learned the
craft of photography. Actually, it was "re-learning," as I'd had
taken a year of photography and graphic arts back in high school—but
that was long enough ago that I might as well have been starting out
from scratch.
Eventually, I began remembering what shutter speeds and aperture
(F-stop) settings were all about. Not to mention the utter
necessity of using a tripod when doing extreme telephoto shots.
Early in the summer of 2004, we upgraded again—this
time to a camera that comes close to being considered a
"professional"-level piece of equipment:
The Canon
EOS D10.
(We'd considered its less expensive sibling, the
Canon Digital Rebel, but decided the extra features were worth the
additional cost.) The Canon is one fine digital SLR camera, and
I've had a lot of fun using it during vacations to the U.S. Southwest
and to Yosemite this past year.
One of the things I find amusing is that when I
first started using the Fuji, I almost never switched from the Auto
setting—essentially letting the camera make all the decisions as to
exposure, F-stop, and so on. Nowadays, I'm almost never off the
Full Manual mode, on either camera.
Lately, my spouse and I have been experimenting
with our new photographic printer, the
Epson Stylus Pro 7600.
It's a huge monster capable of printing
up to 24-inches wide and it takes roll-type photographic-quality paper.
It's one hell of a printer, but the results have been really sweet.
(Now if we can only find enough wall space to display our prints!)
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