An old dog’s odyssey to learn new digital tricks



The tiniest of details…

…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 [...]

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Yellow

Outside the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, Alaska…

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Framed

An unusual view of the Eiffel Tower…

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Incoming!

A honeybee heads in for a landing…

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Fruit stand

Today’s image is from the Pike Place Market in Seattle…

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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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Lighting and legalities

I’m learning all sorts of interesting things about the legalities of photography lately. Basically, I’ve learned that the law regarding photography (not so much regarding what you photograph, but rather what you can sell and how) is a bit more complex than I’d first thought…

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Flowers at a street market

Back to Paris for this colorful scene…

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Shorty gets to work with the puschkinia…

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…

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