It’s just cold enough that the rain freezes instantaneously – time to bundle up in front of the fireplace and not leave the house!
Archive for the ‘Macro’ Tag
Icicles in the air Leave a comment
Spirals Leave a comment
I love how nature creates wonderful geometry:
Craters on Mars! Leave a comment
Actually, they are barnacles on a shell, but if you squint a little it could pass for an astounding astronomical photograph…
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
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
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
Monarch Migration 1 comment
I encountered these Monarch butterflies during their migration southward. They had stopped at a tree that was covered with hundreds of them.
Purple Clover 5 comments
A gorgeous field of purple clover behind our house provided lots of opportunities to practice shooting at sunset.
Canon 7D, 100mm
ISO 100
f/3.5
1/320 sec
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
Silhouettes 1 comment
A good project for cold and rainy days:
Vintage Rose 2 comments
Happy Thanksgiving!
iphone, edited with Snapseed
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
Fall Walk Leave a comment
Some impressions I captured on today’s walk through the neighborhood.
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
Study of Seedpod 4 comments
Found these outside our house before the snow smothered all plants.
Canon 7D, 100mm f/2.8 macro
ISO 100
f/7.1
2 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
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
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
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
Ice Flowers Leave a comment
At -20 degrees at night in Vermont, the windows get nicely frosted. Brrrr!  Ice flowers are  less common these days, since everyone now has double-paned windows, where these formations rarely show up. These were on a single-paned garage window.
Canon EOS 7D, 100mm  f/2.8 Macro Lens
ISO 200
f/2.8
1/125
Winter Beachcombing 1 comment
With very little to see in winter, my attention turns to the really small things on the beach:
iphone Hipstamatic
lens: Americana
film: Pistil
Snow Cone Leave a comment
I didn’t taste it, but it looked exquisite to me:
Canon EOS 7D, EF 24-70mm
ISO 100
50mm
f/2.8
1/800 sec
Ice Sculptures 1 comment
I discovered these ice formations during a walk through the Vermont woods yesterday morning:
Art Walk in the Backyard 1 comment
I shot these while walking our dog on a crisp morning. Even in black&white, nature is gorgeous:
Canon EOS 7D, 24-7omm EF f/2.8, B&W conversion with SilverEfex
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections 2 comments
I was inspired by The Strobist, a great blog about lighting that I recently discovered, to try some of my own lighting experiments. Ingredients: Objects in my house (shell found on the beach today, an antique spur from a flea market in Buenos Aires, and a Buddha head I picked up in Taiwan), a piece of glass, a sheet of white paper, a sheet of black paper, and two lights. And my camera, with a macro lens. And 2 hours to spare.
Playing With Fire Leave a comment
With nature providing fewer opportunities for color photography, I decided to do some indoor photography, experimenting with ‘macro pyro photography'(my personal technical term):
ISO 2000, -4 ev, f/2.8, 1/8000
ISO 2000, f/2.8, 1/100
ISO 2000, f/2.8, 1/20, add’l lighting from flashlight
All photos taken with Canon EOS 7D, EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro IS USM
First Frost 7 comments
Fall is definitely here: we had the first frost in CT, and that provided some nice photo opportunities:
All images shot with Canon EOS 7D, 100mm Macro lens f/2.8
Morning Dew Leave a comment
I am discovering that the iPhone is great for capturing the details of life.
Desert Colors 2 comments
Fun in my parent’s backyard in Phoenix with a macro lens.
Shot with Canon EOS 7D, 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens
Leaf-cutter ant at work 4 comments
Shot on a hike to the top of Cerro Chato, an extinct volcano in Costa Rica.
Canon EOS 7D, EF24-70mm
ISO 100
70mm
f/5.6
1/100
Snapshots For Sore Eyes 