The most common definition of a "blue moon" is the second full moon within one month. Â 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. Â Another difficult day to get out and photograph. Â Ended up just going across the street to take photos of my favorite tree. Â I was going to do the moonrise, but I think tomorrow will be a better day for that. Â 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. Â 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. Â The May moon is known as the Full Flower Moon. Â 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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