August 24, 2010

I'm not sure if this was an alien mushroom or the remnants of a nut.  Reece and I were taking a long walk, looking for unusual things to photograph.  Last time, I forgot my card.  This time, he forgot to charge his batteries.

July 16, 2010

Jenny had some sunflowers sitting on the kitchen table.  Nothing like a bunch of flowers to brighten up a house!

July 7, 2010

There were a few pinwheels arranged as flowers on the side of the road.

June 30, 2010

Just before sunset, I went outside in the front yard, laid in the grass, and saw these looking down at me.

June 25, 2010

I am always on the lookout for flowers in bloom.  I laid under a bunch of black-eyed-susans and took some pictures.  These were taken at the  new playground in north Westerville.

June 24, 2010

There was a nice arrangement of flowers, and my 50mm lives on my camera, so it seemed like the right thing to do.  I had to shoot low to get the sky and keep the low-flying building out.

June 8, 2010

I had another hallmark moment with the camera.  I let the background blow out a bit to bring up the flowers.  Guess I need to pay a bit more attention to the light metering functions on my camera.

June 6, 2010

I spilled about 3 pounds of unbleached flour on the floor this afternoon.  I figured that I should go ahead and capitalize on the waste.

May 30, 2010

Just a bit of fun with DOF and a black background.

May 26, 2010

When I was driving into work, I was stopped at a long light.  I saw the tree above raining petals onto the street, so I snapped a few pictures through the sunroof on my car.

May 19, 2010

Not sure what kind of plant this is - but it had just rained, and I couldn't let the opportunity go.

May 18, 2010

There was some wild grass growing by a parking lot when Reece and I were out taking photos.

May 14, 2010

The last days of a very pretty bouquet.  A daisy had drooped, so I took the picture from underneath.  The background washed out nicely between the ceiling and the wall, both different colors.

May 13, 2010

I took some pictures of some daisies in  front of the kids' school.  Of all the pictures, this overblown one turned out to be my favorite.

April 30, 2010

There were some fake leaves sitting on the little table on our porch.  Not sure why, but  decided to photograph them . . .

April 29, 2010

Played with HDR a little bit -I had the flowers sitting by an open window with an aluminum top as a reflector.  In the back, I had a large piece of black fabric to null the background a bit.  I think I need to try the HDR on a proper landscape . . .

April 26, 2010

Not much to say about this one - the skeletons are made of wood, and the doll heads will make some nice zombies when I set them up.

April 13, 2010

It's a flower!  It was a bit windy, so I took some pictures rapid-fire and took the best one.  I'm really happy with this one - it's pretty clear for hand-held on an old manual focus lens!

April 12, 2010

Ever since I started this little project, it seems that I spend a lot of time noticing my immediate surroundings.  At first, it was in an effort to find that 'shot for the day.'  This year, it seems that spring is literally exploding with color, and this is the first time I'm really noticing it.
I took this picture in our front yard; there is a bush that straddles the property line between ours and our neighbor's house.   I walked around the bush for a good 5 minutes, taking near 50 pictures of the little flowers at different apertures.