A little macro fun today. A tiny flower fly perches on the tip of a blade of St. Augustine grass.
Hope you have a fantastic weekend!
Although it's still 77 degrees today, Fall is beginning to arrive in Texas and we won't be seeing these much longer. I took this photo in Round Top on October 25th when Mindy and I were down there for a combination trailer maintenance and geocaching trip. Goodbye, Summer!
On the day Mindy and I worked on the window display at Winnie & Tulula's, I captured this photo of potted periwinkles in front of the store. Click on the photo to view a slide show of the window display.
This young Athabascan Indian is a college student. She is wearing the traditional sealskin clothing of her ancestory. Traditional, that is, except for one modern convenience... a zipper!
I took this photo in Alaska in 2007. Today I decided to try it with a square crop, sepia tone and vignette. It makes me smile. Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
While Mindy and I were in Boston, we went on a whale watching trip. I hope to blog more about that later, but for now I want to share with you one of the pictures from that little excursion.
Creating a silhouette like this is pretty easy. All you really need is a good amount of difference in lighting between the subject and the background. In other words, high contrast. Of course, it's better if the subject is readily recognizable just by its outline. Then you simply underexpose the subject. In this case, I literally only had to point and shoot because almost everything the light meter was reading was brighter than the fishing boat.
This was already a silhouette straight off the camera, but more hazy and "bland" than what you see here. So I did a little post-shot processing, tweaking the brightness, contrast and saturation levels to arrive at this. I also cropped for a more pleasing (to me) composition.
Peaceful, isn't it? Can you hear the sea gulls? Smell the ocean? Feel the breeze on your face?
Enjoy your weekend!
We're back from Boston! Actually, we got back on Tuesday night. I have been busy playing "catch up." I have also been busy downloading, processing and uploading photos from the trip. I have much to catch up on in the blog world as well.
Most of my photos are not yet ready for public consumption. But since it is Friday, I thought I'd at least throw up a quick f-stop friday post. And, yes, this photo is from our trip. We were sitting in Riccardo's Ristorante in Boston's North End. Very suddenly the light changed and I reached for my camera. Never waste interesting light.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Well, it's Friday again, but I don't have any new pictures that you haven't already seen. So I decided I'd dig back into the past a bit. Almost exactly one year ago, in fact. Flickr has a thing they call "interestingness" whereby all the uploaded pictures are ranked by some top secret scoring system that takes into consideration such things as number of views, number of people who list the photo as their favorite, most searched for, etc.
Anyway, you've already seen my most interesting photo according to Flickr.
Today's featured photo is my second "most interesting," a close up of a Texas Horned Lizard. I shot this with my 100mm macro lens at f/5.6. As you can see, it has a shallow depth of field that really makes his facial features "pop."
This makes me so happy, I could almost squirt blood out of my eyes.
Hope you enjoy it too. Have a terrific weekend!
I'm calling this "f-stop friday." What is f-stop friday? It's where I get to throw a photograph at you for no apparent reason. By Friday, I can't always use my words anyway. This way, I don't take up a lot of your valuable time. Just come by, take a quick look at my picture, then go have a fabulous weekend.
This is a bag of apples courtesy of Judy Hill's home show yesterday.
Go ahead... take a bite!
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