…are what make life worth living.
Another quick macro shot, this time from St. Elmo, Colorado:
These flowers are each about 1/4″ in diameter — small enough that I almost stepped on one while we were walking back to our 4×4. I took the picture, at least in part, to remind myself to watch where [...]
Popularity: 19% [?]
A bumblebee works its way through some slender mountain mint:
I took this picture in a park in St. Louis, Missouri. It has a slight case of “green overdose,” but I like the bokeh and am particularly happy at how crisp the bee looks.
I think I’ve finally discovered the secret of good bee photography [...]
Popularity: 26% [?]
I ran across this scene by the trolley tracks in New Orleans…
Popularity: 45% [?]
Another macro image — this time from an outdoor subject, in a park a few blocks from our house…
Popularity: 48% [?]
So I’ve been doing a little tinkering around with my new toys, the Olympus 50mm macro lens and extension tube. So long as you’re careful about some things, it’s a powerful combo. Here’s a macro image I took recently using this combination…
Popularity: 48% [?]
As I’ve mentioned, I bought the Olympus 50mm f/2.0 macro lens for my kit a few weeks back. I’m discovering it’s a fantastic piece of glass when you want to draw a viewer’s attention to part of the frame — it gives you a very shallow depth of field (DOF) when it’s wide open, particularly up close. It also gives you really nice bokeh…
Popularity: 56% [?]
As I mentioned in my last post, I bought an adapter so I could use my old (1979) Zuiko 50mm / f1.8 lens on my E-510. I’d heard that this combination was really bright, and thought that this would help in situations where I wanted to focus attention on a subject using a tight depth of field (i.e., subject in focus with everything in the foreground and background out of focus).
So I put “shorty” on the ‘510, went out in the yard, and practiced on some early (for Colorado) spring flowers…
Popularity: 48% [?]
A few weeks back, we took a short family vacation to San Diego. We did the usual barnstorming thing, packing as many sights as we could into what was essentially a long weekend. Here’s one shot I took along a trail…
Popularity: 47% [?]
All material copyright © 2008 Old Dog Photography, All Rights Reserved
Argos uses a modified version of the Ngatini 1.1 theme for Wordpress
Get the RSS Feed