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Focalfish Photo Blog (Pretty Fly Fishing Pics)

December 9, 2010, by Tom Chandler 3 comments

Nice photo blog apparently run by a bunch of guides with cameras (see, they’re good for something), and some of the work is excellent.

Focal fish

Focal Fish photo blog (click image to see their site)

2010 National Geographic Photography Contest Comes to the Big Picture blog

November 23, 2010, by Tom Chandler 5 comments

The 2010 National Geographic photography contest has found its way to the Big Picture blog, and frankly, most of the work is stunning.

Images like this (a Montana thunderstorm) can’t help but impress.

The 2010 National Geographic Photography Contest

The 2010 National Geographic Photography Contest is worth a few minutes of your day (photo by Sean Heavey)

Worth a few minutes? Damn straight.

See you online, Tom Chandler.

Fly Fishing The Upper Sacramento With Wayne Eng (or, Ahhhhh….)

November 13, 2010, by Tom Chandler 3 comments

Back from a refreshing day on the water (first in a while). Report coming soon. Until now, wish you were here…

Wayne Eng, the Upper Sacramento and a cloudy sky

Wayne Eng, the Upper Sac and a handful of clouds

Veteran’s Day Photos From The Big Picture Blog

November 12, 2010, by Tom Chandler 3 comments

The Big Picture blog gathers news photographs from around the world, and today they published some incredibly moving photographs from Veteran’s Day (like this one):

Veteran's Day

Siskiyou County Rainstorm

November 11, 2010, by Tom Chandler No comments yet
Rainstorm, Mt. Shasta

(click for a larger version)

Photographed on my way to pick up Little M.

Sometimes, it’s downright pretty up here. See you behind the camera, Tom Chandler.

More Proof That All Good Things Emanate From the Underground

September 18, 2010, by Tom Chandler 10 comments

Sure, I shot this upwards of two weeks ago, but at the Trout Underground, the wheels of art move slowly, if at all.

Rainbow

Yes, the rainbow ends at TU/Man Cave World Headquarters

Another Quality Fly Fishing Adventure, Micro-Style

August 29, 2010, by Tom Chandler 4 comments

Back from another Quality Fly Fishing Small Stream Adventure. Wanna guess what they were bitin’?

Small yellow Stone

Even if you can't ID the bug, you can ID the fly fisherman from his fingerprint...

Something resembling a fishing report coming soon – just as soon as I dig out a bit.

See you at the keyboard, Tom Chandler.

Bugs For Breakfast at the Underground

March 30, 2010, by Tom Chandler 4 comments

If there’s one thing I always wanted to see more of over breakfast, it’s extreme close-up photographs of dew-covered insects. And thanks to Alert Underground Reader Axel, that’s just what the Undergrounders are getting:

Insect macro photography

Too close? Too early? Sorry.

You’ll find more pics at the UK Daily Mail site, all of which were taken by a 37 year-old Polish photographer named Miroslaw Swietek – who gets up at 3 a.m. in the morning to catch bugs while they’re immobile.

And yes, there’s not an Undergrounder out there who isn’t right now wondering what an October Caddis/Green Drake/Blue Winged Olive looks like when covered in dew.

To find out, I guess you just have to get up at 3 a.m.

And take great macro photographs.

And find one of the things in the dark.

Simple, really.

See you behind the camera, Tom Chandler.

Fly Fishing Photography With a High Key Twist: Louis Cahill

March 21, 2010, by Tom Chandler 3 comments

Photographer Louis Cahill’s high-key approach to fly fishing photography offers an interesting alternative to today’s typically highly saturated digital photos.

The “barely there” highlights lend his photos an oddly graphic, almost architectural feel – on that you can see more of at his Andros Island photo album.

Louis Cahill, Photographer

The interestingly high-key work of outdoor photographer Louis Cahill,

The under/over photograph is a staple among fly fishing photographers.

Crazy, tilted perspectives and extreme wide angles (the latter all the rage these days) also populate Cahill’s work, and to see 100+ more photographs from Andros Island, click here.

See you nowhere near the equator, Tom Chandler.

TU’s Official Point & Shoot Digital Camera On Sale Now (or, The Such A Deal Dept)

March 12, 2010, by Tom Chandler 7 comments

Alert Underground Reader Gary pointed out the Underground’s Favorite Cheap, Waterproof, Point & Shoot Camera is on sale for $174 (the Pentax Optio W80), and because our single biggest concern in life is our reader’s happiness, we immediately passed this offer along to you:

Want a good deal on a nice waterproof digital camera? Click the picture.

In the interest of not receiving hate mail full disclosure, I’m compelled to point out that I don’t actually own a W80. Instead, the Underground is neatly decorated in photographs taken with my aging W10 (an earlier model), which continues to function just barely well enough to keep me from plundering Little M’s college account in the quest for a new one.

Looking for a near-indestructible, waterproof fishing camera that requires as much maintenance as your average doorstop?

Want something you can drop in the river without penalty?

See you behind the camera, Tom Chandler.

(More Full Disclosure: I receive no compensation for sales of this camera. I just do this because at the Underground, the giving never stops…)

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