19 September 2009
Bokeh!!! :)
I feel like I cropped this one oddly, but after four tries this is the one I kept.
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Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Bokeh!!! :)
I feel like I cropped this one oddly, but after four tries this is the one I kept.
14 September 2009
RAAAAWR!!!!
I've been wanting to do a macro of a spider's face for a long time, and this guy was kinda hanging out, just waiting for me
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
13 September 2009
Last day of vacation!
My boyfriend and I were playing around this river on our last hike and he challenged me to practice slow shutter speed with my camera. I love him. <3
I've never successfully done this before... I want to practice more, but I like how this one turned out! There were others where the water looked slower, but they were way too bright because of the long shutter time.
12 September 2009
Day five.
(A doe, a deer, a female deer...
Yes. Evil does in fact come in small packages.)
This was our second day at Mt. Rainier, in the Paradise hiking area.
This is also the only picture of a deer I have ever taken :) I definitely appreciate the zoom on my new camera now!
(This post = Christmas tree shaped!)
09 September 2009
Day two of vacation.
This was taken on a beach in Seaside, down the street from our hotel. :)
This is also another filler. I am also skipping my photo for the 10th for right now, for the same reason. It's a panoramic and I need the full size version to have everything load correct.
08 September 2009
Day one of mine and Keith's vacation.
This was taken at Indian Beach, within Ecola State Park in Oregon. (Near Cannon Beach).
(This is a filler for right now. I need to upload a better quality version of this, but it's on my external hard drive.)
Monday, September 21, 2009
03 September 2009
A REALLY BIG spider that lives outside above Keith's kitchen window.
I tried putting up a quarter to give it scale, but the quarter was on the inside of the window and it just didn't focus well lol.
The body of this thing is the size of a half dollar, no joke.
On deviantart, someone told me that this is an orb spider. They don't usually bite.
Still freaky.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Updates...
Like Trevor, work is also keeping me extremely busy.
Somehow I had more time when I was going to school and working. Or I just think I did.
Tomorrow morning, Keith and I leave for a week. We're going to spend two days in Cannon Beach, OR and the rest of the time in Mt. Rainier National Park, WA.
After I get back I will finish uploading this week's pictures. Then hopefully I will come back some pretty mountain landscapes, macros of wildflowers, and pictures of Keith with fish :)
30 August 2009
My favorite shot from the innertube float...
We only packed one floating cooler, so we loaded it with various drinks instead of bringing food.
And we forgot a way to tell the time, so only put sunscreen on twice in the 4-5 hours.
The worst part? We all know better than that, lol.
26 August 2009
A (delicious) cucumber from our garden.
Two or three thoughts:
1 - I think the thing with the red fuzz is a little raspberry sprout. Our raspberry bush is near where I took this picture.
2 - My mind is stuck in portrait orientation and it can't get out.
3- For some amazing "landscapes in portrait orientation" shots, look here.
24 August 2009
I have a love/hate relationship with this photo. I've debated for a while whether I love it or if it could be better.
Being an artistic perfectionist has its downfalls at times.
In the end the teeny little orange curls beat me down and I have decided that I love it :)
21 August 2009
Granted, this is not the greatest quality.
But I am super excited that I caught the spider shooting out its web :)
I am also a huge nerd and love being able to see what the spider looks like up close. Nature works in weird ways, that's for sure...
(This was after I ran into its web, noticed it crawling in my red hair a few minutes later out of the corner of my eye, and threw it on the bricks.)
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
10 August 2009
Shamelessly copying my picture from the 7th.
I still like the photo from the 7th better, though :)
Thursday, July 30, 2009
30 July 2009
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A male Pacific Forktail damselfly (Ischnura cervula) hanging out on the fence by our garden.
I didn't try fiddling with my ISO settings today (I can't use image stabilization when I do that, and I needed to take a quick shot). I definitely notice more noise here.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
29 July 2009
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Playing with my ISO again, as well as my (limited) aperture settings. I'm still learning what these things are and what they do.
I'm pleased with it as a start; there is less noise, and I have a nice bokeh effect going on.
I also had a very cooperative wasp (Vespula vulgaris?) helping me out. It was enjoying the cool of dusk and our sprinkler, cleaning itself on our raspberry bush without caring how close I got to it.
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