About Me

Colleen Easley lives in Olympia, WA with her husband Dale and 2 cats. Photography has been her hobby for 40 years. Currently she is working on a 365 project which requires that she take at least one photo every day and publish it to her blog. You may follow her on Twitter and/or Facebook by clicking the links below. To see all the photos of her 2010 project, click the link below under LINKS.

Recent Posts

Herding - I Mean Photographing - Cats

Short and sweet – photographing cats is not easy!  They don’t stand still, they don’t like any lights shining in their eyes, they move at exactly the time you’re hitting the shutter, and the list goes on!  I put on the 90mm Macro again today to see what kind of indoor portraits I could get [...]

Dead Stuff can be Beautiful

We’re definitely into winter here in the Pacific Northwest.  Over the past week we’ve set some records for low temperatures.  In Olympia, where I’m located, we have had 6 and 7 degree mornings several times this week.  But although it’s cold, there’s been no moisture; which thankfully means no shoveling of snow!  The skies have [...]

80-400mm Zoom

Nikkor 80-400mm Zoom

I bought a new lens – well, about a month ago now. I’ve been wanting to write this article for awhile, but I hadn’t had a chance to use the lens very much up until now, so I had no example photos for a gallery.

What I bought was an AF VR-Nikkor [...]