And this should be the last shot needed to get back on schedule. At some point later in the day will be the actual photo for today. This shot is of a dense bunch of wild flowers growing on the side of the road. There was about a thirty foot swath of them, maybe five or six feet deep. If you look back through this blog you'll find a shot of the exact same flower, only yellow. That strikes me as weird for some reason.
I'm almost caught up now. If my math is correct, I owe one more photo and then I'm back on track.
The first shot is of a dead butterfly I found on the side of the road. I'm just full of romance and whimsy with that shot.
The second shot is actually today's photo. Taking photos of tiger lillies is a pain in the ass frankly. The flower is so big and sprawling that getting the whole thing in focus is tough. This time I went with a long lens and stepped way back. That put the background way out of focus but gave me just enough depth of field to keep the flower focused. I was surprised to discover the spider web in the shot after I took it. It had completely escaped my attention prior to that moment.
My wife and I had a lovely date a few days ago, enjoying a rare moment without the kids. While driving home I noticed the beautiful light as the golden hour arrived and asked if she would let me take a shot of her in that light. This is the first shot I took, before making adjustments to the camera. Later shots were much better in terms of adjusting for the light. But my wife quickly grew bored with all of this and lost the great smile that appeared in the first shot. So I'm going with this shot because a great smile beats perfect camera settings.
And yes, for the record, I have these photos for the blog out of order a bit while I'm catching up. This was actually taken before the dragonfly photo.
More catching up on the photo blog. Nothing much to comment on here. I found this guy in a swamp by the edge of the road. It turned out surprisingly well considering that he was probably twenty feet away.
Sadly, a few days ago my computer was taken out by a nasty virus that I was simply unable to remove. Eventually I gave up and resorted to the nuclear option. I wiped the hard drive clean and installed a fresh new operating system. This became my excuse for finally upgrading from Windows XP. Vista looked like a turkey right from the get go, so I waited it out and eventually Windows 7 arrived. And that's where I am now. It's certainly better looking than XP and has managed not to crash on me so far, so that's nice. I am majorly annoyed at having to reinstall all my software and drivers from scratch.
Anyway, photography did not stop while I was offline for a few days. So now we're going to get caught up.
The first shot is my cat Maggie. I like this photo because it almost makes her look fearsome. If you know my cat, this is hilarious. She is both tiny and the world's worst mouser. Plus, she's almost dog-like in her affections and general neediness.
Up next is this gorgeous sunset over the old DQ. There's not much to say about that. Sunsets are reliable sources of beauty for photographers. I almost feel lazy taking a shot like this and posting it. But it is a great sunset, so deal with it.
I'll be back later today with some more photos to get caught up with. Now I need to work out just how far behind I am...
At dinner my son started showing me his zombie face and vampire face. He's much better at the zombie face. So I thought I'd see just how much extra effort would be needed to get the kid ready for appearing in a movie. Not that much it turns out.
And for the record, it was taco night. No brains.
You didn't see them, because they were pretty dull, but I spent a bit of time yesterday trying to take a picture of a slug. What was interesting is that I stumbled upon something in my camera I didn't realize I had. Or I sort of knew that it was there but hadn't given any thought to the implications. The Canon T2i has a way to zoom in on the live view on the camera's LCD. Now this was mentioned as a feature for video. On my previous video camera, I ignored the digital zoom because it's essentially useless. So on this camera I figured this was the same thing and ignored it.
But then I accidentally turned the zoom on while taking stills. And then a real use for the feature hit me. It makes focusing on tiny objects much easier. With the slug, this wasn't all that exciting. It was only marginally more interesting zoomed in than it was at regular size. But some things are genuinely much more interesting in the extreme close up. This beetle for instance. This shot was take with the kit lens that came with the camera. But I was still able to get a tight focused close up. Pretty cool.
Now I'm excited to break out the macro lens again to see what I can do with this.
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