Photo 365: Day 126 – Macro Challenge
Another macro challenge 😉
Identify this gear. I will post the answer tomorrow evening.
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Photo 365: Day 124 – Bloom
When I got home this evening, I took a walk around our yard and saw the yellow roses in full bloom. So decided to have yellow rose as a subject for today’s post. As it was a bit windy this evening decided to cut the bloom and shoot this indoors where I could have more control on the composition/lighting.
I didn’t really want to shoot it looking straight at the flower. Shot the rose at different angles and amongst all I liked this one.
Don’t forget…today is Twitter Tuesday.
Photo 365: Day 123 – Pencil shavings
I was undecided on the subject for today’s post when I got home this evening.
I think my legs were in auto-pilot mode this evening 😉
My legs were leading me to my back yard to take floral pictures but had to restrict myself to shoot on something else. It gets boring after shooting with the same theme. So as I was undecided on what to shoot, my daughter was getting ready for her homework and thought may be I should sharpen her pencils, then try shooting the shavings. So that’s how things turned out this evening.
Photo 365: Day 122 – Rain drops
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.
Photo 365: Day 121 – Moonbeam
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 😉
Photo 365: Day 120 – Rose buds
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.
Photo 365: Day 115 – Re-life, New life
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.
Photo 365: Day 114 – Bitten
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 🙁
Photo 365: Day 113 – Pineapple
Not much creativity today 😉
Picked up a pineapple @Costco today and spent some time this evening on capturing the details. Used window lighting to capture the details and later used Adobe raw, and PS actions to sharpen the edges.
Photo 365: Day 112 – Macro challenge
Here is an easy macro challenge for my blog visitors. The challenge is to identify this gear 😉
I will update this post with the answer tomorrow evening.