I was at my neighbor's house today and they have some very interesting things in their back yard. They have numerous bird houses - I just photographed a couple. I was hoping one would have birds in it, but no such luck. Some of their flowers are just a little past prime, but they were …
Day 169 – Benham Falls and the Big Eddy
We took a drive to a couple different places today to take some photos. Our first stop was at Benham Falls. There is a lot of water flowing at this time of year and the falls was running strong. It was hard to photograph because of the severe contrast in lighting. It was a very …
Day 168 – More Macro from the Garden
I took these photos this morning while there was still some water drops left over from the watering last night. Our strawberry plants are starting to develop the fruit. The only problem I have with the strawberry plants is that we don't have enough of them to get much fruit. We probably will get a …
Day 167 – Working with Macro and Depth of Field
I'm still working with my new macro lens and depth-of-field. I've found that even when I use a small aperture, the depth-of-field is still fairly shallow with the macro lens. And with a large aperture, the depth-of-field is miniscule. And it changes quite a bit just moving a few inches from the subject. All of …
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Day 166 – Firecracker Sunflowers
I love sunflowers. Whatever color or size they are, I love them. My favorite is the great, big monster sunflower. I went to a local garden center hoping to find one of the big sunflower plant (or even seeds) and everyone else must like them too because there wasn't a giant sunflower plant or see …
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