Digital Slide Show

Digital Slide Show

Wildlife photographers often shoot animals and birds in the wild.  That means no TV or TV in a language we don’t understand.  It can mean living in a tent or on a boat in a remote part of the world.  Personally I love the wilds even if it means biting mosquitos and tsetse flies, blood-sucking leaches and ticks, or stinging wasp and bees.

Places like these have a minor problem.  It's nearly impossible to shoot in the dark without special lighting setups or doing star-trails.  Thus we use evenings to download photos or entertain one another.  Since we are all photographers, what better entertainment could there be than digital slide shows.  Some of us elect to show the best of our images to an trapped audience.  We all try to give the presenter encouragement.  No critiques.  Those are done privately with a professional.

For your enjoyment, I thought I would present an abbreviated version of the slide show I gave in Brazil.  At least those photos are ready to be seen.  My recent Brazil photos are not available yet because I’m reorganizing my whole body of work for Lightroom, which I am in the process of learning.

This slide show is based on four photo-shoots we did last year (2014):  Costa Rica (CR), North Carolina birds (NC), and a Reptile (R—captive animals), and Tanzania (T).

I should warn you, my tastes in photography are eclectic.  I’m more of a nature photographer than a wildlife photographer per se as you will see.  I’m going to divide the show up into 7 or 8 parts each one based on a different subject for my photography.

DSS Part 1: Flora

Sunrise in Costa Rica
by Jeter Skeet

This shot was taken from across a bay of the Pacific coast.  I wish that I could have finished the frame of vegetation around the sunrise.  Maybe I can do some cloning in Photoshop.

A Stem of Red Flowers and Buds (CR)
by Jeter Skeet

This was a favorite of hummingbirds as the flowers bloom sequentially.

Lily Pads (T)
by Jeter Skeet

You don’t expect to see lily pads in the middle of the Serengeti Plain, but we did.

Azaleas (NC)
by Jeter Skeet

Ah, Spring in Carolina, and what do beautiful flowers need, but a song.

White-Throated Sparrow (NC)
by Jeter Skeet