Friday Turkeys!

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I think patience pays off, after taking about 150 mediocre wild turkey photos in the past 2 weeks I decided to sit and wait for them. I got to the road crossing where I have repeatedly seen them nice and early today. With a big old cup of coffee I sat and waited it out where the light was epic yesterday. I never thought I would have a shot where you can actually see the turkeys breath!
Enjoy your Friday
Bill

Spring has Sprung!

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Had a great morning shooting pictures down by the train tracks. Its amazing how much life is awakening all in one warm day! Here are a few shots from this morning. I would say this is my best Kingfisher photo yet, and today marks a first for me. Although the picture is crummy, I identified my first Widgeon (the duck with the green on its head). I know I said I was going to focus on painting but there is so much life I can not resist going out with the camera!

Cheers, enjoy the weather!
Bill

New Painting #3

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I am happy to say that I was able to work last night for a few hours. I am having difficulty getting photographs to capture the correct color but I feel like I am getting better. If you compare the 3 images in this series there is a LOT of variation that really isn't accurate. For example this latest image is slightly reddish. Hopefully you can get the gist of the progress made. Enjoy! I am posting some wild turkey pictures tomorrow please stop back!

New Painting #2

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"Unfinished Stage 2"

I was able to squeeze in a few hours of painting last night. I am starting to really enjoy working on this. Over all, the orange color is too dark and saturated. This tends to happen when I work at night under my bright studio lights. I have learned to use this to my advantage during certain stages such as this one. Now that I have deep saturation of the fur in place I will do several transparentwashes of white and light yellow and add softness and dept to the next step. I also need to work on the rock and decide how it will 'meet' the water.

New Painting!

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"unfinished Red Fox painting"

Hello and welcome back. Hope every one had a great St Patrick's day weekend. I sure did. We were hit pretty hard with a snowstorm on Friday, large puffy flakes changed over to very granular ice that had the consistency of sugar. Got to love New England weather.

I started a new painting, this one is quite small, 11"x14". I have enjoyed water reflections and fur so much when I saw this image I wanted to paint it right away. Keep in mind this is early on in the painting and lots of refinement is still to come. Check back soon for updates of this and other paintings. I plan to take a slight break from photography to focus back on painting again for the next few months.
Bill

Weekend Fox

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A quick post for Monday. First I would like to mention that I have started a new painting. Also a fox. The idea of working on 2 or more paintings at once has worked well in the past year. This allows me to not only work more efficiently (not having to wait for paint to dry). This technique also allows me to keep fresh and not get 'stale' on one painting. I hope to have some mages of the new painting in the next few days.

A quick note: For you wine lovers I will be having a artshow/opening at Hopkins Vineyard in the scenic Litchfield Hills. Show will be July and August with an opening date to be determined. Stay tuned!

Finally I am leaving you with two parting shots. I was just headed back from an early morning hike on Saturday and spotted a fox in a lower field near my house. As I got closer I noticed what he was doing. A small group of mallards were nestled in waiting for the sun to rise and were about to become breakfast. Fortunately for them they spotted the fox as he made a bold approach and scared them off.

Thank You!

Thanks to everyone who visits me here at williamkramer.com! Last month ( February) was the highest amount of traffic my site has ever seen! I have lots of new and exciting adventures planned for the spring and summer so please, keep checking in! I am off to Colorado today and hope to bring back some nice images and get some good boarding in!

I will leave you with a few shots of some Ring Necked Ducks that have been staying in a small stream in Bethel for the past 4 days. The are very attractive and take to flight as soon as you get anywhere near them!