Was purging some photos from when I was first playing with my R6 and found this among them, felt it was worthyof a quick edit. #corgi #corgination #corgisofinstagram #corgicommunity #canonr6m2 #canonr6mii #canonr6mk2 #canonr6mkii

Stepping outside of my comfort zone some more. Decided to bring my camera along to my wife's tennis tournament last night. My long lens is not ideal for low light but with TopazAI and Lightroom I was actual able to save a bunch of decent shots. Unfortunately I was not able to shoot at the fastest shutter speed to really freeze all the action. I had to shoot almost all of these at iso25000 so I am impressed I was able to save these.Here's a few from last night. Please tag anyone you recognize. I will also be sharing these with the people later. #sevenhillstennis #beginnersportsphotography #beginnersportsphotographer #canonr6ii #canonr6mkii

Some more photos from my recent trip to Sloppy Floyd, unfortunately the sun didn't come out on the day I had a chance to take photos, but I was pleasantly surprised by some of these. #sloppyfloydstatepark #sloppyfloydstateparkga #fall2024 #fallphoto #fallphotos #fallphotodump #fallphotography #fallphotographer #fallphotography🍂🍁

This will be a multipart post, went camping at Sloppy Floyd this weekend. Was able to get some pictures of a blue heron that was just hanging around fishing of course he caught a fish on the other side of the lake where I couldn't get a good shot of that. #birdphotos #birdphoto #birdphotography #blueheron #blueherons #blueheronsofinstagram

Made an attempt at taking a picture of the moon last night. I probably should have tried focus stacking to get the leaves more in focus.

More photos from my recent trip to NC. These are from all over, the forest road from Cherohala skyway, Road to nowhere in Bryson City, and the sunrise from the mountain top where we stayed in a tiny house. #roadtonowhere #roadtonowherenc #fallcolors🍁 #fallcolors #fallcolors2024 #fallcolors🍁🍂 

These photos and more from this fall can be viewed here:

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Finally getting around to editing all the photos I took the other day in NC, visited the Cherohala skyway, Bryson City, and the surrounding area. Will have a couple posts seeing I have tons of photos. These are some I took with my drone. 

These are cropped but the full photos can be viewed here:

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#cherohalaskyway #cherohalaskywaync #dronefallcolors #dronephotos #dronephotograpy #dronephotography #dronephotographer

Part 3 of 3 Recent trip to Cloudland Canyon. One of these days I will figure out how to post my vertical photos without having to crop them for instagram. Most of these cropping was fine but one in particular I am not happy with what I had to choose to lose. On another note, Finally got a decent shot of Bella, I just had to stand and the bottom of some stairs she was too scared to go down lol. #corgi #corgination #corgisofinstagram #cloudlandcanyon #fallcolors #fallcolor #fallcolors🍁🍂

Part 2 of 3 from our recent trip to Cloudland Canyon. It was kind of crazy how the colors seemed to pop overnight. Spent a lot of time down at the water falls, but didn't end up with much I liked. Got an ok sunset on our last night. #cloudlandcanyon #cloudlandcanyongeorgia #fallcolors #fallcolor

Part 1 of 3 Recent camping trip to Cloudland canyon.  really didn't want to crop some of these for instagram so they will be posted separately so I can maintain most of the ratios. #fallcolors🍁 #fallcolors2024 #fallcolors🍁🍂 #fallcolors #fallroads #fallroad

Some more photos from todays Fort Mountain trip, had to post these separate as I exceeded the instagram limit on my last post. Decided to take Broknsmurf for the drive up. The classic mini seems to get all the love lately, figured I would see some mountain roads so might be fun. I also got to test out my custom modes on the new camera and was able to capture this motorcycle going around the corner. Probably need to bump the shutter speed a bit, but the mode is more for wildlife. If the rider happens to see this photo shoot me a message ill send you the file (full discloser Its a pretty deep crop so not sure how useful it will be). #r53s #r53mini #r53squad #fortmountainga

Decided to go to Fort Mountain today to see if there were fall colors yet, some little hints here and there but not quite colorful yet. Decided to just play with Lightroom to see what I could make of these. Trying to get better at woodland photography, best way to do that is to get out there and take pictures. I kind of like the filter I put for the overlook though, definitely blown out of proportion on what the leaves look like but I like the transition to black and white, much more interesting then the hazy blue sky. I also decided to just crop all these in the 1:1 format that instagram always seems to recommend, gotta say on some of the photos it kind of works.  #fortmountainstatepark #fortmountainstatepatk #fortmountainstatepark_ #fortmountainstateparkga #woodlandphoto #woodlandphotos #woodlandphotograph #woodlandphotoshoot #woodlandphotographs #woodlandphotography

Went for a hike at Allatoona creek yesterday, been wanting to go for a while but kept getting busy. Felt it was a good time to play with the new camera and get some ideas for fall shots as well. #woodlandphotograpy #woodlandphotographs #woodlandphotography #woodlandphotographer #falliscoming🍁 #falliscomingsoon #allatoonacreekpark #allatoonacreektrail #allatoonacreektrails

Picked up a new camera last night (Canon R6 Mark ii), finally got a full frame. I wanted something that would work with the stuff I seem to shoot most. Since I have been slowly doing more wildlife photos that included a fast shutter. 

So I got the dogs to run around the yard this afternoon and snapped some photos with my 100-400 lens, I am really impressed with how well the auto focus works and holds a moving target. I was also shooting really fast (1/1600) and some of these photos were shot at an iso as high as 25600, yes I had to use Topaz photo AI and LR to clean them up, but with this same lens and my R50 before these photos would have been completely unusable. Oh and I do have Joro spiders in my yard, just have to look hard enough, found them way up in the trees. #canonr6m2 #CanonR6II #canonr6ii #canonr6mkii #canonr6mark2 #corgi #corgination #corgilife #corgisofinstagram

Was amateur hour taking these photos, forgot to charge my batteries. If I had more air time I think there would have been a better shot. These turned out ok, the fog was pretty cool though. 

#redtopmountainsp #redtopmountainga #redtopmountainhiking #redtopmountain #redtopmountian #redtopmountainstatepark #djimini3pro #djımini3pro

More Photos from our camping trip, having to post them separate because instagram doesn't like different aspect ratios. #redtopmountainsp #redtopmountainga #redtopmountainhiking #redtopmountain #redtopmountian #redtopmountainstatepark

Photos from a recent camping trip to Red Top Mountain. #redtopmountainstatepark #redtopmountainsp #redtopmountainstateparkga #redtopmountainstatepark🌲

My drink enjoying the sunset while camping. Wasn’t expecting the sky to turn into fire.

My next festival is fast approaching, be sure you to come on out and see me.

Fall is fast approaching, so this means its time for all the spiders to decorate my house for Halloween. This guy has been setting up shop the past few nights a couple feet away from our porch light. I will be the first to say I am not a huge fan of spiders but I do find them interesting. Figured this was a good opportunity to play with my macro lens, it was hard to get the body and legs into focus, I still need some practice with that. I also got way closer to it than I thought I would, because this is a tight corner and his body is facing the house I had to tuck myself behind it with not much room to flee if it decided to get on me lol. #spookyphotos #spookyphotoshoot #spookyphoto #spookyphotograph #spiderphotos #spiderphoto #spiderphotoshoot #spiderphotography

Day 31, Finally made it to the end of the month. I figured it would be fitting to use one of the last photos I took on our recent trip. I had tried almost every morning to get a good sunrise photo but the was not having any luck. Then when we did get a decent sunrise I somehow lost my cpl filter walking across the beach, never did find it. Coupled with my lens fogging up constantly. I was happy to snap this shot. #sunrisephoto #sunrisephotos #sunrisephotoshoot #sunrisephotograph #sunrisephotographs #sunrisephotography #beachsunrise #beachsunrises #beachsunrise🌅 #beachsunrise☀️ #beachsunrise🌇 #beachsunrise☀️🌊 #beachsunrisephotography #huntingislandsc #huntingislandsc🌴 #huntingislandsc🏖 #huntingislandscsunrise #theresabirdinthere #theresabirdintheretoo

Day 30, Another shot from our hunting island camping trip. I had all but given up on getting any wildlife shots this morning. But I checked one more area and when I thought all was lost I heard this guy in the tree. I was able to get quite a few shots before it flew off. #huntingislandsc #huntingislandsc🌴 #birdphoto #birdphotos #birdphotography #birdphotographer #woodpeckers #woodpecker #woodpeckerbird #woodpeckersofinstagram #woodpeckerphotography #woodpecker

Day 29, just got finished wrapping up a beach camping trip. I managed to capture the milky way 3 nights in a row, by the third night I think I finally got my settings right to create a sharp enough image to share. For those that care iso 800, 10 second shutter f1.8 at 35mm. Today will be a twofer because I like both of these in their own way. #huntingislandsc #huntingislandsp #huntingislandbeachsc #huntingislandbeach #huntingislandlighthouse #huntingislandstatepark #huntingislandstateparksc #huntingislandsouthcarolina #milkywayphotos #milkywayphotography #milkywayphotography #milkywayphotographers #milkywayphoto #astrophotography #astrophotographer #astrophotography_ #astrophotographyworld

Day 28, More fall photos. I can't wait for this fall as I found a new love for aerial road photos taking these shots. This is from the Cherohala Skyway (I think on the TN side). #dronephoto #dronephotography #dronephotography #dronephotographer #dronephotos #dronephotograpy #djimini3pro #djimini3prophotography #fallroadphotography #cherohalaskyway

Day 27, The Euharlee Covered bridge. I almost didn't take any pictures this morning because when I got to the bridge I didn't find it interesting. But ultimately decided to put the drone up seeing I drove all the way there. I love how this one turned out in the end. #coveredbridgephoto #coveredbridgephotos #coveredbridgephotography #fallphoto #fallphotos #fallphotography #fallsunrise #fallsunrises #fallsunrise🍁 #fallsunrise🌄 #fallsunrise🍁🍂 #euharleega #euharleegeorgia #euharleecoveredbridge #euharleecoveredbridgefallfestival

Day 26, Figured I should post a dog photo seeing its national dog day. One of my first action type shots back when I got my first "real" camera. #nationaldogday #nationaldogday🐶 #nationaldogday🐾 #nationaldogday🐶❤️ #nationaldogday❤️ #nationaldogday🐶🐾 #corgi #corgilove #corgilife #corgiworld #corgination #corgicommunity #corgisofinstagram

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