You all know how much I’m in love with my iphone…and how I love to use the camera apps! I just got the lo-mob app the other day and it’s quickly becoming one of my favorites! I haven’t had a chance to run through all of the goodies this app has, but here’s a few photos below taken with it…and yes, I like stop signs 
Check out some of these shots from the lo-mob flickr group!
1. Bighorn Sheep, 2. Counting Pennies, 3. flag, 4. BDA ->, 5. Night Train, 6. 49/365, 7. Out From San Diego, 8. within fingers reach, 9. pie, 10. photo, 11. Life: Ding Dong, 12. Evening glow, 13. Write it Down, 14. , 15. Ivinghoe series 1 of 4, 16. Bowling shoes
Happy shooting!
When you live in the boondocks (like us)… it’s definitely a different experience….
It can be beautiful
It can be creepy (till you learn who is dangerous and who is not)
It can be cute and adorable
It can be hard work
It can be interesting
It can be scary
And it can be slow…
I’m not talking turtle slow…I mean internet slow. When we first moved here several years ago, our only option was Hughesnet (satellite internet)…and it was horrible. When it worked, it worked great…but if it rained the internet went out, in the evenings the internet was slow. And customer service? Oh gosh don’t get me started on that! Then, we tried wireless internet. You know, those little sticks that plug into the USB port on your computer? Wireless was better, but still nothing like DSL. You just didn’t have that constant internet hook up. It would go down, it would go back up, it would go down, and so on….
And then, it happened. DSL has come to the boondocks! We just had a phone line installed the other day. Yes, you read that right, we JUST got a phone line installed. We never had a land line out here. Never needed one. We had cell phones and wireless internet, so why bother? Ok, back to the DSL… it’s installed and it’s WONDERFUL. Tonight we picked up a wireless router. So now, when we’re at home, I can be on the PC and my husband can be on the laptop in the other room. We can even sit on the deck and use the laptop. Also, our iphones get Edge service out here. In town and where we work they get 3G, but out here it’s Edge. With our DSL and wireless router the iphones now have Wi-Fi at home!
It’s so lovely! Even after having to wait years for all of this internet goodness, I still wouldn’t trade living here for anything else in the world!
Although the blog comments on yesterday’s post don’t show it…I got a ton of great responses from my interview with Klaus Peter yesterday. Stay tuned to the blog, because I’ve got a lot more photographer interviews in the future! I plan to interview wildlife photographers, portrait photographers and more. Interviews are one of my favorite things to read on other blogs, so I wanted to be able to have some of my own on my own blog….
So…watch the blog for more!
Here’s something I’d like to start doing regularly on the blog, photographer interviews! Let’s get right to today’s, an interview with wildlife photographer, Klaus Peter.
What’s your name?
Klaus J. Peter a.k.a. kjpweb
Where do you live?
Minneola, Florida
Link us to your website and/or blog:
http://kjpweb.com Virtua Gallery
What type of photography do you do?
Wildlife
Have you ever taken any type of photography class?
I actually studied it along with Graphic Arts at the University in Muenster, Germany.
That was in Film times and included extensive darkroom work.
How long have you been a photographer?
Since 1974 – but with a long stretch of no Photography at all in between
Do you have a way for people to purchase your photography online?
Only indirectly: http://virtua-gallery.com/wp/purchase-images/
Name one person/photographer that has influenced you the most in the way you shoot?
No one in particular
What gear do you carry with you?
Body (Nikon D2x) Wide Lens – 18-55mm, Zoom – 100-300m f4, 2x Converter,
Flash, Better Beamer, Spare Batteries, Tripod (only if REALLY needed)
What gear do you carry with you that’s not photography related?
MP3 Player and Speaker, First Aid Kit, Plastic Bags, A lot of water – and Coffee
in a thermos in the car. If needed Folding Chair
What’s your favorite photo of all time that you took?
If you could only use one camera and one lens, what would they be?
Nikon D 300s, Sigma 120-300mm f 2.8 + 2x Converter
Where do you purchase most of your camera gear?
No Specific place – Online B&H, Offline – Colonial Photo & Hobby, Orlando
Next camera gear purchase will be….?
Replacement for my 100-300mm lens and D2x
What are your favorite places to go shoot?
Gatorland, Circle B Bar Reserve, Green Cay, Viera Wetlands
Favorite time of day to shoot…morning or evening?
Morning, Evening, Noon – hey – anytime!
A photographer you admire?
There are a lot of photogs I can only look up to.
Only one real Bigshot among them:
Joe McNally – for exceptional lighting techniques
But there are some pretty normal people out there, too, that
are as good or better as most of the celebrated Photographers:
Ken Conger – exceptional Wildlife Photographer
Edgar Thiessen – always emotional Wildlife shots
Andreas Stridsberg – enormously creative
Richard Steel – image perfection
What was your very first SLR or DSLR camera?
A Yashica FR – fully manual
Best tip you’d give someone just starting out in photography?
Shoot, Shoot, Shoot – that you reach the point in the aspect of Photography
that is nothing more than craft ( the “How to use the camera”), where it
is no longer something you have to actually think about.
What is the next bird/animal that is on your ‘list’ that you’re hoping to photograph?
I so would like to see an American Coot! (Oh no – I think I already got one)
Peregrine Falcon, I guess.
What is one impression you hope the viewer takes away from your photography?
Some kind of satisfaction for having seen animals in their natural beauty, what most
people can’t!
Favorite blogs you read?
Mac or PC?
PC
What software do you use the most to edit your photographs?
FastStone image viewer, to sort through
Photoshop 3, 4, 5, 6 ,7, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4
Thank you so much Klaus for doing this interview!
