Day 332- Macro Monday

Leaving things, losing things, misplacing things- story of my life!  Here are some recent examples:

1) When we were checking in for our flight home from Bozeman  (almost 2 hours away from my daughter’s house in Yellowstone), we discovered that my husband had left our house key (plus fourteen dollars. . .) back at her house. There was a little nervousness about whether we would be able to get into our house when we arrived home at midnight, but we were able to get in through the garage.

2) My favorite (fifteen years old and unfashionable) black fleece vest had disappeared in my closet for a couple years, but reappeared in time to take to Wyoming this trip. But, of course, I left it there.

3) I took several foam holiday art projects to Miles to work on during our visit, but one particular snowflake sticker sheet seemed to disappear in my suitcase.  However, it reappeared in the same suitcase when we got back to California.

I’m using the snowflake stickers as the subject for this week’s macro shot.

 

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Day 319- Splashdown

It is NOT a flying saucer!

f/9, 1/250, ISO 500, 85mm

It’s a water drop reflecting its shadow, the blue ridge plate underneath, the faucet, and items around my sink. I don’t know why I have waited until now to do a water drop again. I was obsessed with it before I got the macro lens- and then never tried it once I had the proper lens! I didn’t do anything fancy- just kept clicking away while the water dripped- and I used my flash.

 

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Day 312- Connections

Too bad that today’s ODC challenge isn’t Hard Light again- I had plenty of that when I went out today to shoot photos at NOON (breaking one of the first rules of photography). The theme is connections, hence this macro of links of chain, which I found down by the waterfront.

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Day 300- Boo!

DAY 300- Woo Hoo!

I’m following the daily theme today from my Flickr group- through a hole.  Since it is almost Halloween, this seemed like the obvious choice to me. I exposed it correctly, but ended up darkening it in Photoshop to make it SPOOKIER. . .

f/13, .4 sec., ISO 400, 85mm

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Day 292- White Pumpkins

White pumpkins! I don’t remember when I started seeing these in stores, but this year I bought three. The below is actually a macro shot; they are actually mini pumpkins.  I only took two photos and chose the second, so I really haven’t had my fill of white pumpkin photography yet.  Don’t be surprised if more white pumpkin images appear in the blog over the next week!

f/22, 1.3 sec., ISO 160, 85mm

I added two of Kim Klassen’s textures to this photo: tattered (2 layers) and just white.

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Day 288- Luck

A quick macro shot today- my lucky bamboo, which has been photographed for the blog before, but this time from the TOP!

I got the idea in response to the topic of luck for my Flickr group, Our Daily Challenge.  After yesterday’s YELLOWJACKET adventure (yes, I googled them- I was calmly standing in the midst of about 8-10 wasps!), I didn’t feel like venturing outside. Not going to push my LUCK!

f/4.5, 1/20, ISO 500, 85mm

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Day 283- Hello

It’s Macro Monday, so I chose to use my flowers again- this time, photographing details of some of the lilies. This image reminds me of sea creatures somehow.

f/14, 1 sec., ISO 160, 85mm

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Day 282- Landscape of a Rose

I decided to use my flowers as photography subjects again today and became entranced with the curves and lines in a single rose.  I moved closer and closer, eventually changing to a macro lens and getting out my tripod. I’m not sure this image says “ROSE,” but I like the color, curving lines, and composition.

f/20, 3 sec., !SO 160, 85mm

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Day 269- Down Under

TGIMM!

(Thank God It’s Macro Monday)!

I seem to be drawn more to the details than the big picture, so it’s a big relief to me when Macro Monday rolls around. I always forget to link to Lisa’s Chaos, where Macro Monday resides- so this week I’m not! If you have time, follow the links on that page to some beautiful macro photos.

 

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Day 265- 100 More Days!

Project 365 2011 is 100 Days away from completion!  I am feeling such a sense of satisfaction from having honored my commitment to take a photo every day and post it, while improving my camera skills! I’m celebrating Day 265 by changing the look of my blog (or not. . .). I’m experimenting with WordPress themes, so not all my links are showing up. Bear with me as I play with this!

Today I am using the topic from Our Daily Challenge on Flickr- From Ground Level.  I took a beach towel and lay on our lower patio, aiming the lens one of the leaves that is starting to litter our grass. Definitely a bug’s eye view!

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Day 263- Shrouded

Yes, I know I have photographed these webs before- but our yard is SHROUDED with them, and the spiders are HUGE! I feel like I am in a science fiction movie.

Today is Texture Tuesday, so I added one layer of Kim’s tattered texture using the color burn mode. This was the first time I had used color burn, which I thought did a nice job of adding some interest in the non-bokeh part of the photo (I masked off some of the texture in the rest of the image).

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Day 259- Hard at Work

I found this rather large spider working hard in my garden this morning (with two more nearby!).  I didn’t really get the shot I wanted (a closeup of a spider spinning a web- all in focus).  When I increased the depth of field (closing down the aperture) on later shots, she was moving too fast for the slower shutter speed required. So, I settled for the shallow depth of field. BTW, this photo was not cropped, other than making it square (yes, I was THAT CLOSE!).

Big news in my Flickr world: yesterday’s photo of the day was “Explored”!  Not really sure what it means, but I know it’s good. . .

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