We had some rain last night and I was able to shoot these rain drops on rose petals this morning.
Over the past couple of days I have been taking pictures before 7:00 AM in my yard and that seems to be a good time for taking pictures of blooms, buds, and such. I kind of feel the blooms are fresh and Sun light is quite optimal for taking pictures then. Will have to see how it works out in summer.
That’s moonbeam in my backyard ready to bloom anytime now.
It’s a low lying plant and had to get close to the ground to shoot it this morning. So another capture with my Nikkor 60mm macro lens 😉
Those are rose buds ready to bloom in my back yard.
It was a windy day this evening and I had to spend quite a bit of time for the wind to calm down before shooting this. Used my Nikkor 60mm macro lens for shooting this in manual mode.
There is a bonus picture for day 120 here.
This is a bonus picture for day 120.
Those are peonies in my front yard ready to bloom. We had an almost perfect weather early this evening and thought I should try out my craiglist bought Nikon 28mm manual lens. Later I found it was too windy. So when the wind had calmed down a bit, I took this shot of peonies about to bloom.
My daughter has this cool tops with smileys – the first time I saw it, I decided to have smiley as a theme for my photo post someday in the near future. This evening as was I going through my kids toys, I saw this yo-yo with a smiley sticker on it. It’s a sign (LOL), so decided to have smiley as today’s subject.
So I had her smiley tops hung on a door knob to set it as a backdrop and then had the yo-yo set to hang from the tripod for this capture. I like the way it turned out 😀
On a related note, about a month ago I read about sarcmark – it’s a sarcasm punctuation mark. I bet it will come handy for twitter posts 😉
You can read about sarcmark here.
That’s white corn & black bean salad. That was for dinner 😉
Food photography – that is something I’m really interested in besides macro, flower, and portrait photography. But I always struggle with food photography. I am not good at setting up the table for this kind of work. When I go back and look at my food photography pictures from the past, I feel they are flat !
May be I should take that as a challenge and do more food photography.
Feel free to add in your suggestion for food photography.
The Sun was out this noon after few days of rain.
Spent some time this evening in the backyard and I noticed that the paint that my father had applied to the porch rails have all gone after 3years. This reveals the grains in the wood wood knot which has quite an interesting pattern and resembles eyed peacock feather.
Originally I had shot something else for today’s post and that did not turn out quite well. So as I was looking for some other subject, my little boy had picked up this box of wooden beads that we had bought for our daughter when she was 2yr old. That’s how how I ended up with this subject for today’s post 😉
Don’t forget…today is tasra365 Twitter Tuesday
A week before Earth day, I had a chance to read a book on container gardening and they had some cool ideas for growing plants from seeds. One among them was to use, egg cartons.
So couple of days before Earth day, sowed few Marigold seeds and it’s about a week now and the seeds have germinated. The above post is a picture of germinated Marigolds in egg carton. These will wait a couple of weeks to be transplanted to the ground.
Elsewhere on the web, I remember reading that bunnies don’t like Marigolds. Will have to try it out to see if they keep the bunnies away.
PETA people don’t read further 😉
I hate bunnies..yeah they are cute, as along as they stay away from my garden. In the quest to keep the bunnies away (humanely) I tried spraying my garden with hot chili peppers. That really worked, but it’s a quite a lot of work. So gave up on those and tried with a commercial product by name Liquid Fence (after reading positive reviews).
I got to tell you, Liquid Fence stinks and smells like…4 letter word! Too bad it won’t keep the bunnies away although it keeps the people away…
So I thought I will write to folks in Liquid Fence that their product stinks.
I bet they’re going to say, “WE KNOW”.
Anyway, the above picture is a Phlox bitten by bunnies 🙁