A storm was happening in the west this evening and I went out to take a few photos of the clouds and the sunset. This is one. See if you can spot the lion.
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Two Vultures Twice I left the house this afternoon to take some test shots with an old lens that I had just. A Pentax Super-Takumar 135mm f3.5. Two turkey vultures flew up from their road kill and headed off in a more-or-less southeasterly direction. I snapped two quick photos as they circled around and went on about my walk. Later on when I looked at the pictures after I'd imported them it struck me that I had a panorama I could put together. A few minutes with Afinity Photo and this is the result. Two Vultures Twice Here are two more normal pictures one might take with a "Bokeh Monster". At f3.5 At f11 Later on, back at the house, a doe and her two fawns were grazing in the field just across the road from my house. Same lens and a pretty heavy crop. Doe with one of her fawns.
A Pin For Getting Hitched I participate in a couple of weekly themed Photo challenges on Flickr. Once in a while I have a hard time making a picture to follow the theme for Flickr Friday or Macro Monday. The Flickr Friday theme for April 30, 2021 was "Pins". Two ideas popped into my mind. Dowel pin and Hitch Pin. Below is hitch pin. I have a wagon I can haul behind my riding lawn mower. This is the pin that is used to make the connection between tractor and wagon. I walked out to where I keep the wagon and took the picture with the back yard as background. It's one of the top viewed pictures I've posted to Flickr. Go figure. ISO 800 1/500 sec. f/4.5 Sigma 70mm DG DN A Macro Here is Dowel Pin just as reference. The table the objects are setting on is a broken TV. I use this whenever I feel like a low key reflection photo. 0.3750 Dowel Pin My submission for Macro Mondays only required a change of props. Exposure 3 se...
A Table, a Bird, and Grammy's Kitchen I had an idea for a Flickr Friday theme "Circles". I titled the picture "Set The Table and Gather Round". A7RIII with Zeiss 16-35 f4. at f4. aperture 1/250 shutter speed ISO 2500 I didn't think that this would hit like it did. One of the few pictures I've posted that made it to the Explore page. I pulled in the driveway this past week and since I had the Sigma100-400 mounted on the A7R3 I sat for a while snapping some pictures of birds at the feeders. This Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) perched in the barberry bush long enough for me to get this picture. Sony A7RIII, Sigma 100-400 DG DN C, f6.3, 1/80 Shutter, ISO 100 This is a rather common composition for a bird photo but I like it because there are subtle lines in the bush that echo the line along the birds back and tail. Grammy's Kitchen is a demo of how hard it is to mix tungsten light with daylight. Changing the white ba...
A Flash Modifier For Shooting Macro I call it a flash pipe. It is an antiseptic wipe dispenser with the branding peeled off and lined with aluminum foil. There was a flip lid that I broke off and the resulting opening is as good a fit as I could hope for on my cheap, generic flash. I glued the foil in with Elmer's Contact Cement after I roughed up the inside with course sand paper. This is a macro shot taken with a homemade flash modifier. The objective of the project was to get the light output past the end of the lens. The dispenser is an opaque plastic that can act as a diffuser. Notice the shadows in the upper edge of the SONY letters. The light is shining from directly above the subject. This is the dispenser mounted to my flash unit. This shot was taken with the flash mounted on a light stand. I used a a PocketWizzard to trigger this shot. I wanted to see what the output looked like. I need to glue in a strip of foil around the front ...
The Grand Kids Humor Me. I read a post on Flickr about re-creating a photo from Flickr Commons as part of the thirteenth anniversary of that feature of Flickr. The commons is a collection of photos from public archives that are stored on Flickr and on public display. A list of pictures was suggested and one of them struck me as something in which I could find a personal connection. This picture is of two cousins and was taken in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic. My mother's father was ten years old in 1918 and survived that horrendous event to live into his nineties. Our two grand sons are five and eleven now and are living through these difficult times the same way as most other children this age. I interrupted their usual video game play in order to take the photo below and they played along because they're good kids. So there they are at the beginning of their century, posing close to the way the two Florida boys were in 191...