Look behind trees while walking through the forest and you’ll find remarkable colonies of mushrooms:
Archive for the ‘Macro’ Category
Shrooms! Leave a comment
Still life with leaves Leave a comment
Spiderwebs 3 comments
Captured these webs on today’s morning walk in Vermont.
iPhone, edited with Snapseed
Mushroom terraces Leave a comment
What one can find in a wet forest if you keep your eyes close to the ground:
iPhone
Icicles in the air Leave a comment
It’s just cold enough that the rain freezes instantaneously – time to bundle up in front of the fireplace and not leave the house!
Spirals Leave a comment
I love how nature creates wonderful geometry:
Thorny close-ups 4 comments
I played around with macro photography to get some close-ups of this wintry remnant of a thistle in our backyard. Click on any picture to see them in slideshow format.
Canon 5D Mark II, 100mm macro lens
Fall is here 1 comment
As evidenced by the lovely chestnuts I find on my walks.
iPhone, edited with Snapseed
Playing with pinhole photography 2 comments
Shot these with the Hipstamatic pinhole lens – works great on small objects!
iphone, Hipstamatic app
Cacti Heaven 1 comment
A visit to the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix provides some great opportunities for black&white shots. Click on any pic to view them in full-screen slide show format.
iphone, Hipstamatic
ISO: 32
1/580 sec
f/2.2
lens: John S
Film: BlackKeys B+W
Frozen Foliage 1 comment
Found these leaves frozen in a pond in the Vermont woods:
Canon 5D MarkII, EFL 24-70mm f/2.8
ISO 400
f/5.0
1/160 sec
Still Life of Milk Weed and Bug Leave a comment
No need for further description:
Canon 5D Mark II, 24-70mm lens
ISO 100
f/2.8
1/2000 sec
Geometry of Nature 1 comment
Mushroom Dreams 6 comments
Found a couple of mushrooms in our front yard that lent themselves for some experimentation with black&white processing. Click on any to see them in slideshow mode.
Canon Mark II, 90mm macro lens
ISO 500
f/4.5
1/80 sec
Field of Clover Leave a comment
The sunset behind our house lit up this field of clover beautifully. A reflector helped me get the great lighting on the second shot.
Canon 7D, 100mm EF 2.8
ISO 100
f/8.3
1/60 sec
Summer Blossoms 1 comment
Finally the garden is paying some dividends!
Still life with shell 1 comment
Found on Sanibel Island.
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 320
f/4.5
1/80 sec
slight adjustments in Silver Efex 2
Beach treasure 1 comment
Found on Sanibel Island.
iPhone, Hipstamatic
Still Life of Weeds 4 comments
If I only knew what this is called, that so profusely grows in the field behind our house…
Ice Sculptures Leave a comment
Created by mother nature:
Ice Stalactites Leave a comment
Global Warming? 5 comments
No – it’s just the sun that’s melting the ice and snow around our house – finally!
Canon 7D, EF100mm f/2.8 Macro
ISO 100
f/2.8
1/2500 sec
Silhouettes 1 comment
A good project for cold and rainy days:
Vintage Rose 2 comments
Happy Thanksgiving!
iphone, edited with Snapseed
Black And White Winter Vegetation Leave a comment
This is all that remains in the field behind our house when the temperatures drop below zero:
Still Life with Pine Cones 2 comments
When it gets cold, photography turns indoors. Found these pine cones in the neighbor’s yard, so didn’t have to go far to find something on which to practice my macro photography.
Canon 7d, 100mm macro f2/8
ISO 1,600
f/6.3
1/100 sec
Mushrooms and Seeds 1 comment
A rainy day lends itself to macro photography indoors. Here are two items I picked up on today’s walk:
Canon 7D, 100mm f/.8 Macro lens
Nostalgic Walk through Clinton Leave a comment
Caught these impressions of a bygone era in our neighborhood:
Fall Walk Leave a comment
Some impressions I captured on today’s walk through the neighborhood.
Praying Mantis Visit Leave a comment
I found this praying mantis on my doorstep last week, and promptly took it to my studio (aka table with black backdrop) for a quick photoshoot before releasing her (him? it?). Not a very stationary subject, but these two shots turned out OK.
Canon 7D, 100mm f/2.8L Macro
ISO 1000
1/125 sec
f/3.2
Spring Flowers 1 comment
A stroll through the neighborhood yields some nice color pictures. Finally!
B&W Flower Studies 3 comments
All three were shot indoors with  spring sunlight (finally!) streaming through the windows.
iphone, Hipstamatic
lens: Lucifer
film: BlackKeys
First Touch of Color 1 comment
Spring is coming…slowly.
Canon 7D, EF-S 10-22mm
ISO 100
f/5.6
1/13 sec
Color adjusted in Nik Efex HDR
Horseshoe Crab Study 4 comments
I found a dead baby horseshoe crab on the beach and decided to make it the subject of a practice lighting session. The underbelly was particularly challenging because of all the detail.
Canon 7D, EF 24-70mm f/2.8L
ISO 100
f/8
1/50 sec
Longing for Summer 1 comment
Thought I’d post a few close-ups I shot this summer while it’s snowing and howling outside.
Canon 7D, 100mm macro lens
Adjustments in Color Efex
Winter Frost is Here! 4 comments
These pictures don’t need an explanation: It’s COLD!
Canon 7D, 24-7-mm f/2.8L
ISO 100
70mm
f/2.8
1/250 sec
Mushroom Pavillion 10 comments
This mushroom looked to me like  a sun umbrella for tiny creatures.
Canon 7D, EF 70-200mm
ISO 125
f/8
1/400 sec
World Wide Photo Walk – Guilford, CT 4 comments
On Saturday I participated in Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photo Walk by joining one of thousands of group, this one located in Guilford, CT. We spent a couple hours on the shore taking pictures and exchanging photo tips, and enjoyed ourselves despite the overcast weather. Which means it’s a good time for black&white pictures. Click on any picture to see them as a full-screen slide show.
Happy Breakfast 2 comments
I didn’t plan that, but it looked so delicious I just had to share it. I guess when you make the same breakfast every day, sooner or later a smiley face or a madonna is going to appear in my eggs….
Canon 7D, 24-70mm
ISO 1600
f/6.3
1/20 sec
Fly on Hibiscus Flower Leave a comment
I didn’t know until I looked at this picture on my computer that I had caught this little fly enjoying the hibiscus flower.
Shot with iPhone Hipstamatic
lens: Tinto 1884
film: Sussex
Fossils Making Out on the Beach 3 comments
I was lucky enough to catch the one day when Horseshoe Crabs come to our town beach to mate. There were at least 15 pairs of these ‘living fossils’ (so-called by Charles Darwin because they look just like their fossilized ancestors) horsing around (pardon the pun) in the shallow water.
Camera: Canon EOS 7D, 100mm macro lens
Flower Fireworks 2 comments
Rainy day, so I spent it practicing indoor photography:
Canon EOS 7D, 100mm macro lens
ISO 100
f/5
1/10 sec
I shot a small piece of moss up close, and changed focus while the shutter was open, to get this effect:
Canon EOS 7D, 100mm macro lens
ISO 100
F/2.8
1/30 sec
At the Right Angle 1 comment
Small detail of a wooden patio fence:
Canon EOS 7D, EF 70-200mm
ISO 100
115mm
f/5.6
1/250 sec
Vintage Steam Train Details 21 comments
A visit to the Essex Steam Train depot yielded some interesting photo opportunities.
Here are a few more. Click on any picture to see them in slideshow format:
DC Impressions Leave a comment
Covered a lot of territory in DC over the weekend, here are some miscellaneous impressions:
iphone & Hipstamatic app
Animal Portraits 1 comment
Tiny Beach Treasures Leave a comment
Tiny shells (1 cm long) on our local beach, shot with my macro lens:
Canon EOS 7D, 100mm 1/2.8 macro lens
ISO 100
f/3.2
1/400 sec
Good Morning, Frost 3 comments
I can handle the cold when it’s nice and sunny (because you get nice pictures like these at sunrise):
Canon EOS 7D, EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro
ISO 100
f/3.2
1/400 sec
Goodbye, Lovely Vermont 1 comment
Tomorrow ends my last winter visit to Stowe, VT. Haven’t taken too many pictures lately because I feel like I’ve exhausted the possibilities, and because skiing has taken precedence. But here are a few that I liked from this week:
Shells, Shells, Shells 1 comment
Hammonasset Beach in Connecticut is covered in these shells. Finding a spot where they take up the entire viewfinder wasn’t difficult. Deciding whether I like the color or b&w version better was tough.
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 100
f.8
1/100 sec
Snapshots For Sore Eyes 