An old dog’s odyssey to learn new digital tricks



My ever-hungry friend

Today, another seagull picture from offshore of Victoria, BC…

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Minty fresh!

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 [...]

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Yellow

Outside the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, Alaska…

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Looking for some lunch

Another image from our trip to Alaska — this one from an unusual perspective…

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Incoming!

A honeybee heads in for a landing…

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Down by the tracks

I ran across this scene by the trolley tracks in New Orleans…

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Searching

Another macro image — this time from an outdoor subject, in a park a few blocks from our house…

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Carnation

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…

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Yellowstone traffic jam

Another bit of video from my “Attention Deficit Theater” collection — this one, showing the cause of many traffic jams in Yellowstone National Park…

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Oly 50mm macro — now that’s good bokeh!

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…

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