The most common definition of a "blue moon" is the second full moon within one month. But it originally referred to the fourth full moon in a season - and even that is fairly recent. This is according to an article I read on space.com. This will be the last "blue moon" until 2015 so …
Day 184 – Halfway Point
Today marks the second half of this 366 project. Another difficult day to get out and photograph. Ended up just going across the street to take photos of my favorite tree. I was going to do the moonrise, but I think tomorrow will be a better day for that. The moon is rising in these …
Day 143 – Hazelnut Macro
I picked up a couple of hazelnuts off the sidewalk today and thought they would be a good subject to practice with my new macro lens. These nuts were about the size of a dime and I was happy to see how well the macro lens picked up the detail on such a small subject. …
Day 126 – Full Flower Moon
As has become my monthly tradition, tonight was another full moon, so I had to photograph it. The May moon is known as the Full Flower Moon. The Farmer's Almanac describes it as: Flowers spring forth in abundance this month. Some Algonquin tribes knew this full Moon as the Corn Planting Moon or the Milk …
Day 103 – Experimenting in Photoshop and NIK Software
I wanted to do some experimenting in Photoshop and NIK Software today and I could have played with it all night long. I think it's fun to try new things. Some I like and some are a disaster, but that's part of the fun of it. Both of these photos were taken in the entryway of …
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