Thanks guys - it was more of a vacation than a photo trip - understand that the lady was with me during all of these, so I had limited...patience levels...mixed in with this;) She's a sweetheart for putting up. "Hold on honey, I want a 58th exposure of this chipmunk thing."

The animal shots, Joe, are where I have the most fun...if only I owned a 500mm...I find the tricks to start with are getting to their eye level, for one - being very careful to watch the background, too - emptier the better (that moose was in a forest, lots of clutter) - and then making sure the eye is in focus. Art Morris' books on bird photography are my bible for exposure with them - lots of ways for the meter to be fooled with critters.

For Sprague Lake, that's about an hour after sunrise. It's a dual exposure, one for the sky and one for the foreground - made a sort of ND filter with a gradient mask in PS CS2, and blended them. Tweaked the saturation and the contrast, and that's it.



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