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Photo 365: Day 114 – Bitten

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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

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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

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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.

Photo 365: Day 111 – This old Book

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It’s Wednesday already! Had to take my daughter for her Math class – that’s my Wednesday ritual besides going to work 😉

So I had about an hour to kill while waiting for my daughter. I had a book with me for reading but I wasn’t up to reading this evening. Luckily I had my Fuji F30 P&S with me and thought may be I should shoot something for my blog post. Looking around in the room that I was waiting I found quite a lot of old books. Found this thick, old, spiral bound book and the first time I saw it, I knew I had a subject for today’s post.

Normally I wouldn’t trust the camera’s macro auto setting, but I have read good reviews/tips on using F30 macro mode. So had my F30 set to macro mode with Aperture setting, did a manual white balance, and took about 30+ shots. Out of these I like the one above the most.

That’s how I spent my time this evening while waiting for my daughter.

Photo 365: Day 109 – Colors of Spring

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I was pleasantly surprised by the colors on thorns on our carpet rose bush in our backyard this evening. May be I have missed them during previous years. Definitely spring is full of colors and this Photo 365 project has taught me to observe things a bit closer (via my 3rd Eye ofcourse) 😉

Photo 365: Day 108 – Bookworm

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Our Sunday ritual is go to the library & pick few books for the entire family. This was an exciting day for my daughter as we had borrowed the latest chapter book from Magic Tree House – Leprechaun in Late Winter. So she was in joy and as soon we got back home she started reading the book. I want to capture the moment of her involved in her reading and used my Nikon 50mm to capture this. Used SB600 flash to bounce it of the ceiling to get ambient lighting.

Photo 365: Day 107 – Isle of Spice

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No that’s not a shoot from a grocery store 😉
Those are some of the spices from our pantry.
Had some free time this afternoon and spent it on shooting these spices. Surprisingly all these happened to be from McCormick and it worked it pretty well. To bring out the contrast in colors (red caps) I had the spice bottles sit on a blue cardboard and used window lighting to capture these.

Photo 365: Day 106 – Rainy day project

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We had a spring like weather in St. Louis today with occasional showers. Another reason for me to stay indoors and use my macro lens 😉

I was out of ideas for today’s post and my wife suggested may be I should try with oil/water setup. So spent some time on setting/shooting this and it turned out pretty good. Here is what I did to set this up for the shoot.

  • Filled a clear glass with about 1/4 cup oil.
  • In another cup filled with cold water and few drops of liquid food color – here is where you could be creative.
  • Then started pouring colored water over oil until I got enough bubbles.
  • Allowed the mixture to settle down.
  • Then carefully looked around the glass for the bubble/bubbles I liked and start shooting in full manual mode

One thing you will need is lot of patience and don’t forget to shoot a lot of pictures. In my case, I thought most weren’t sharp. Out of about 30+ pictures I took this evening I only liked a couple 😉

Photo 365: Day 105 – Boys ‘R Boys

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We had a nice weather this evening with a bit of breeze and a couple of drizzle – wished we had soaking rain though. It feels like summer already.

Anyway spent some time outdoors this evening with my little boy. He likes watching trucks/cars passing by and digging dirt unlike his big sister who likes reading books. So he was all excited this evening when I took him outside. So he had his bucket/trowel and was ready to get dirty.

So I confer Boys ‘R Boys.

There is a bonus post for day 105 here.

Photo 365: Day 105 – Pot of Gold (bonus picture)

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Here is my 2yr old boy digging for the pot of gold. Yeah I hinted him today is tax day 😉