http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress Information about sensitive habitat, wildlife and enviromental issues Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:56:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Global Warming and CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons) was first discovered by Professor Sherwood Roland.  In his article he describes how the CFCs will deplete ozone that is in the stratosphere.  The depletion of the ozone will allow more solar radiation to enter the atmosphere.  This will cause the surface of the earth ... http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress/?p=27 To follow up on the CFCs is gases that retain heat. (A green house acts on a different principle.) Some gases that retain heat is C02 and methane. Co2 is more of a problem at the moment because there is more of it in the atmosphere. ... http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress/?p=25 How has the atmosphere worked before the burning of fossil fuels? Well there has been global warming for a long time. Actually with out global warming the earth would be too cold and life as we know it probably would not exist. So how does it all work? ... http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress/?p=26 Well finally made it back from South Dakota and processed some images of the farm. The can be found here photographs of Paul Nelson Farm The last post talked briefly about how the farm is operated. Here in Southern California (OC) there is not much open ... http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress/?p=22 Well I have been in South Dakota for a few days now. Sorry for not getting my post up earlier. I have a series of articles on global warming and one article on how photography can be used to help. I want to take this time to go through ... http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress/?p=21 The red egret photographed here shows and uncropped photograph with a cropped photograph. I then did some saturation, and used levels to find a right balance, in raws mode I adjusted the Black levels Exposure Saturation (I will talk more about the curves, layers, etc and printing in the near future. ... http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress/?p=20 One of the challenges of nature photography is working with what is at hand. Sometimes you cannot get any closer to the subject. Some animals are very sensitive to people and you can try and camouflage or just stay back. In the case of the red egret ... http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress/?p=19 Today at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands it was very quite. There were not many birds about. Then I came upon the Red Egret. There is a pair that came up from, it is believed, Baja California a couple of years ago and they have been around since. The ... http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress/?p=18 The apples and the poppies photographs are some of the best examples of ideas I had in my mind of pimages that I wanted to get. One photograph took me about 6 shots the other took me about 1000 shots. Let’s back up and find out how I ... http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress/?p=17 The artistry of photography. A lot of books and seminars talk about the technical and some even talk about composition but why do some photographs really stand out and others, well others are just snap shots. There is the usual. Keep the main point of the image (like the ... http://www.naturephotographywithapurpose.com/wordpress/?p=16