David Mathre Photography

This Day of the Year

  • Twelve-Years Ago Today. Semester at Sea Spring 2013 Enrichment Voyage. Day 22 of 52.

    While the MV Explorer was docked in Amsterdam, we went on a Semester at Sea field trip to the Kröller-Müller Museum and Sculpture Garden at Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo, Netherlands. While walking through the outdoor Sculpture Garden, Mother posed with the ´Monsieur Jacques´ (1956) sculpture by Oswald Wenckebach. I processed the image in black and white to avoid some distracting colors in the background. These days I could have just used AI to remove the distractions.

    Mother posing with the ´Monsieur Jacques´ sculpture by Oswald Wenckebach in the Kröller-Müller Museum and Sculpture Garden. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V2 camera and 6.7-13 mm VR lens (ISO 250, 13 mm, f/5.6, 1/100 sec). Converted to B&W with Capture One Pro

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  • Fourteen-Years Ago Today. Semester at Sea Spring 2011 Enrichment Voyage.

    Mother sitting at a bench in front of a street art mural in Cozumel, Mexico. While the MV Explorer was docked in Cozumel, we attended a field program that included Josefina’s Mexican cooking class. On the way back to the ship, we passed this mural where the blue colors matched her clothes.

    Mother sitting at a bench in front of a Mural in Cozumel, Mexico. Image taken with a Leica X1 camera (ISO 100, f/5, 1/100 sec).

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  • Six-Years Ago Today. Backyard Springtime Nature in New Jersey.

    During my afternoon backyard walkabout, I saw an American Robin with a large grub in its mouth. I think the nest is in the nearby Ceder tree. The Fuji camera does emphasize the Robin’s bright orange breast colors.

    American Robin with a large grub. Image taken with a Fuji X-T3 camera and 200 mm f/2 lens + 1.4x teleconverter (280mm, ISO 320, f/4, 1/420 sec).

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  • Sixteen-Years Ago Today. Yosemite National Park in California.

    While driving into Yosemite National Park for a photography workshop with Michael Mariant I noticed something red off in the woods. I stopped to retrieve it if it was some trash but instead found these strange red objects growing out of the ground. When I showed the images that I took to Michael, he told me that they were Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea) flowers. The Snow Plants don’t have any chlorophyll and derive their nutrition from fungi living under the soil near conifer trees.

    Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea) in Yosemite National Park. Image taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 45 mm f/2.8 PC-E lens (ISO 100, 45 mm, f/8, 1/13 sec).

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  • Eight-Years Ago Today. Indoor Cactus Garden in New Jersey.

    I take the cactus in for the winter and rarely see them blossom. I was about to move them outside when I noticed one of the small barrel cacti had small flowers. I couldn’t get the level of detail I wanted with a single macro image. Instead, I made a composite of 24 focus stacked images using a Nikon Df camera and 105 mm f/2.8 VR macro lens (ISO 100, 105 mm, f/4, 1/125 sec) and SB-910 flash (EV -2). The images were processed using Helicon Focus: [Method B (depth map, R = 8, S = 4)].

    Small barrel cactus flowers. Composite of 24 focus stacked images taken with a Nikon Df camera and 105 mm f/2.8 VR macro lens (ISO 100, 105 mm, f/4, 1/125 sec)

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