Today is my birthday and I feel truly blessed. (It was actually yesterday but I didn't get a chance to publish the post yesterday). I received two beautiful bouquets of flowers from my co-workers, Laura and Chris. The office took me to a wonderful lunch at Anthony's at the Old Mill. We had a …
Day 175 – A Summer’s Day
Today I woke to pouring rain. But as is typical for this part of Oregon, it can be raining one minute and the sun will be shining the next. Today was no exception. By mid afternoon the sun was shining and the big, black storm clouds were receding into the distance. I went down to …
Day 145 – Red Gerbera Daisies
I'm still practicing with my macro lens and tonight I worked on some red Gerbera Daisies. I tried using different apertures, shutter speeds, and distances from the subject. One thing I have learned is that the macro lens has a very shallow depth of field, even with a small aperture. I wanted to use natural …
Day 108 – Lilies and Roses
We had some more flowers at the office today so I took the opportunity to photograph them and play with them in Photoshop and NIK Software. I'll explain what I did with each photo. I used my tripod to get the sharpest photos I could get. It was an overcast day so I took them …
Through My Lens 