Posted in Birds, Our Place on Jun 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I decided to see if I could stand six feet away from this tube feeder for long enough for birds to ignore me and come in and eat. It took two minutes for this chickadee to swoop in and pick up a seed.
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 Cats, Our Place, Photo Gear on Jun 19th, 2008 7 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. So, could the Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L macro lens be used as a general purpose telephoto? Yes.
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, 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 Ideas, Opinion, Our Place, Politics, Video on May 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Does anyone with an education reading this actually believe that Obama is a muslim? Better yet, does anyone with an education reading this believe it would be a problem (for you) if Obama was of the Muslim faith?
People without an education don’t have the tools to filter out the noise and don’t have the worldview [...]
Posted in Objects, Our Place, People on Apr 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My wife Anne loves babies and knits and that combination has led to countless sweaters, vests, bonnets, hats, scarves, blankets and more, all hand made with love (including cat hair).
There’s nothing wrong with buying gifts and we do it more than not, but a hand-made gift that took some time, skill, thought, and [...]
Posted in Cats, Our Place on Mar 27th, 2008 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Our wonderful old cat had her eighteenth birthday today. She’s quite arthritic and has a tough time getting around these days but she does have her moments and we do our best to keep her happy. The Kitty was born a month before I met Anne and has been with us through three [...]
Posted in Landscape, Our Place on Jan 14th, 2008 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Opened slider to shoot, cat ran out, took shot, put camera down, chased cat around backyard in snow, got soaked, came in, had enough. Going to bed.
Posted in Cats, Our Place on Jan 6th, 2008 8 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I know, this is not a great image but I like it anyway. I was trying out Gary’s Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM lens and even though the light in the room made this a tough exposure (for me), it demonstrates what’s so interesting about shooting with a fast wide angle lens (subject [...]
Posted in Ideas, Our Place on Nov 7th, 2007 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We bought these prayer flags at a Tibet festival over the summer.
"Traditionally, prayer flags are used to promote peace, compassion, strength, and wisdom."
I can’t speak for any of you but we here in the US need to be hanging a lot of these prayer flags. I don’t think we could hang enough to [...]
Posted in Food, Our Place on Nov 5th, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. This is approximately one apple pie’s worth of apples, pears, quince. Click on the image to go up to flickr where there are notes on each apple showing which is which.
Posted in Flat Macros, Our Place on Nov 5th, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The shagbark hickory tree this leaf came from is growing in the woods down by the bank of the stream that cuts through our property. It is completely blocked out by larger trees for most of the season but now that many trees are leafless this tree is showing through. I was taking [...]
Posted in Food, Objects, Our Place on Nov 1st, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Went up to Averill Farm to buy apples, pears, and quinces for our apple pie baking marathon this weekend. Figured I’d get them now so I could photograph them before they get "pied." Got them all washed and lined up regiment style for their group picture.
These bosc pears are maybe the most photographed [...]
Posted in Food, Our Place on Oct 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Finally, on Halloween, I picked the pumpkins in our "patch" and lined them up. We have 30 pumpkins and 15 turban squashes. None of the pumpkins are "state fair champions" but they’ll be nice pumpkin pies and squash for our one experiment with Afghan cooking: a chili like dish over pumpkin and before [...]
Posted in Objects, Our Place on Oct 31st, 2007 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. New 85L arrives, stop everything, put lens on camera, hunt for something to shoot. Pulled this out of recycling bucket. Ah… got my bokeh fix for the day. Back to work raking and blowing leaves…
Posted in Food, Our Place on Oct 28th, 2007 13 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We’ve been buying bread from a bakery in the next town for years, and it’s great stuff. However, it’s expensive as they use all organic and high-end ingredients. They recently raised their already high prices, and that was the tipping point for me. I got my wife to teach me how to bake [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut.There are many small volunteer sumac plants around our place and one really can’t see them blended in with the other foliage in the summer but in fall, they turn brilliant red. I’m allergic to poison sumac; nice that these plants are not only beautiful but also “hypoallergenic.”
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Creatures, Our Place on Jul 11th, 2007 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We were watching the NewsHour and I kept hearing this noise from the backyard but didn’t pay it much attention as it was raining out and the rain makes noises on gutters and things around here.
Then I stood up and this is what I saw, exactly this view at this scale. I yelled [...]
Posted in Creatures, Our Place on Jul 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. This old dude sat in this one place for about two hours. He rotated a bit as he attempted to catch dragonflies as they flew by but he never swam or hopped away. When he turned towards Gary and I we got a kick out of how wide his mouth was and every [...]
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