Posted in Flowers and Trees, Landscape, Our Place on Oct 27th, 2008 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. This is just a quick test of my 135mm f/2 L lens with my 1.4x extender which makes the resulting combination 189mm with a max aperture of f/2.8. I’m considering the Canon 200mm f/2.8 L lens and wanted to see if what I have already with this combo might do the job.
Alex thought [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on Sep 30th, 2008 6 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. There are many things in bloom Inside the labyrinth that is Robert Irwin’s Central Garden at The Getty Center. I shot this plant hoping that the colorful blur behind it might be as or more interesting than the plant.
For those of you who are interested in such things, note that this was [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Ideas on Aug 14th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I’ve been driving by this group of globe thistle flowers in front of the author Francine du Plessix Gray’s house for the past week and finally stopped to shoot them. The group of them looked like it might lend itself to long lens impressionism. Maybe us long lens shallow depth of field painters [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Aug 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I found a kaleidoscopic clump of coneflowers in all stages of development, baby to just about gone by and it was hard to know how to set the aperture to make a pleasing background with such coneflower clutter.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Aug 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I just can’t resist coneflowers (echinacea), they’re so dramatic, colorful, photogenic. I wonder what makes a flower photogenic, or, better, I wonder if the same things that attract us to flowers also attract bees and other insects? If I were a bee, I’d be all over these stamen.
Posted in Art and Design, Flowers and Trees, Places on Aug 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Gardens created for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
These are circulating via mail. Better to visit them on the web. Many instances of them, not sure which are the original but this one’s the best presentation. Click images for larger versions.
[via Martha Winkel]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Pasadena, California. I guess high summer is not the best time to photograph the herb garden at the Huntington Library and Garden. Most of my favorite plants had gone by or were wilted in the heat. Of course, I have an eye for flowers in decay and tried to make the most out of it [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I feel like this daisy looks: wilted in the humidity. It’s hard to find the energy to get out and shoot when the dog days come, and it’s not even August yet.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We just had a very fast and violent thunderstorm, poured rain with lightning and thunder for a half hour, then it was over as fast as it started. Everything’s soaked, dripping and steamy and I’m thinking flowers and water droplets. The good news is, now lawn mowing today. Yes!
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I spent an hour photographing beautiful, perfect dogwood blooms and then I ran across this old one going by. Some might say that young, beautiful flowers are the thing, but give me old flowers going by, they have character and are much more interesting to photograph.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Macro on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. We were early for yoga class this morning and next door to the building the class is held in is a small herb garden. Anne rolled her eyes and groaned when I broke out the macro gear to see about a picture of this lavender plant before class started.
I didn’t know lavender [...]
Posted in Creatures, Flowers and Trees, Places on Jun 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut, Macricostas Preserve. This little flower is about one half in across (this is not a daisy) and after going to all the trouble to set up the tripod and get things lined up, an intruder dropped in. I figured he’d leave soon enough but he stayed for twenty minutes so I gave up, [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Landscape on Jun 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut, Macricostas Preserve. This is one stalk of grass from this field. I was on the edge of the field today attempting to take pictures of bugs and thought the grass looked just as good.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Jun 18th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Another gerber daisy, this one pink. Yeah, I know, enough already with these weird flowers. We bought six plants though, all different colors, so I have to document them, right?
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Another of our recently acquired gerber daisies open in the sun. The petals and stamen on these flowers are so photogenic I can’t stop shooting them. I know, enough already with the gerber daisies.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Macro, Our Place on Jun 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Two things that took me too long to learn about photography: overcast days can make for better color saturation and easier exposure setups, and flowers going by can be as interesting as flowers at their peak.
I’m still using a rented Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L macro lens and enjoying it.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We just got back from our friend Nora’s nursery and I picked up a bunch of photogenic gerber daisies. This must be the year of the daisy for me. This one has a few buds that are just opening up, very nice petals from all sides.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Macro on Jun 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I rented the Canon 180mm f/3.5 L macro lens for a week and I have to say, it’s quite a nice lens for these types of shots. The longer (than 100mm) focal length makes for nice compression and the lens makes nice colors and beautiful bokeh. It’s a beast though so one really [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 13th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Suffice to say that I did not get under this daisy with a 300mm lens and shoot up, it was bent over so I had an opportunity to shoot the beautiful underside of it from the side.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The problem with shooting blooms on trees is that even on a dwarf tree the blooms can be high enough so it’s difficult to shoot down on them without having a tripod that can get your camera higher and for me (5 feet 6 inches) a small step ladder. I have the tripod [...]
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