Photos

On another of my walks around the neighborhood, looking up I spied a nice combination of sky, clouds, tree and flowers.

People at the tower of Pisa taken out of their intended context

As seen from the Everglades to the west of Miami

Testing out a tripod shot of my new 200mm - 500mm telephoto lens with 2x magnification on 1.5 DX crop (~ 1500 mm equivalent)

Liftoff! Up up and away! Returning twin boosters

I recently participated on a photo scavenger hunt on Google+ arranged by the awesome Chrysta Rae.  The idea behind the hunt is that you have about a month to take photos of ten different subjects.  The use of Photoshop/Lightroom is encouraged, although I didn’t explore heavy editing that much.   You cannot use photos you’ve previously taken - they have to be taken during that month.  At the end of the month, Chrysta compiles the photos from everyone (500 people are in the group, with about two-thirds of that participating),  and the photos are judged (Chrysta is not one of the judges, of course). ...

I recently couldn’t help but notice that one of the shrubs in our back garden had been reduced from something like this: To this: I thought that my mind had wondered while spraying for weeds a few days prior, and I’d accidentally killed most of it. However, while out watering I noticed something about the size of my little finger clinging to the side of one of the newly bare stems. ...