An old dog’s odyssey to learn new digital tricks



Incoming!

A honeybee heads in for a landing…

Fruit stand

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

Down by the tracks

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

Searching

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

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…

Flowers at a street market

Back to Paris for this colorful scene…

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…

For you, a bouquet…

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…