The unintended consequence of going from the air conditioning into the full humidity of a warm Arkansas summer night to capture the moon and its pond reflection.
Milo in motion
Longish exposure makes Milo’s self-cleaning a bit abstract.
Gotcha!
Butterflies and dragonflies in flight can be mesmerizing. However, their erratic flight styles can drive you crazy when trying to capture them in pixels, whether panning with a real viewfinder or even worse, trying to pan using a digital viewfinder and its fraction-of-a-second lag (and no drive or burst function).
Well, a little spray and pray with the shutter yielded my favorite shot of the morning as this red-spotted purple moved through the canopy of the valley forest.
Autumn incursion
Little by little, autumn creeps into the viewfinder.
Weekly photo challenge: Serenity
Finding serenity any time is a challenge, and this week it IS the challenge. For the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to capture the latest comet Lovejoy in pixels. Tonight’s effort was flustered by clouds, but one shot — a test shot setting up — seemed to hit all the right notes. The soft light in the cloud, the familiar pinpoints of starlight and the warm glow coming from the house next door all seemed to be a little bit of serenity.
Other bits of serenity from this week’s challenge:
Texture study
Focusing on details lost in other seasons.
The markings on this rock look like a petroglyph of a squid or jellyfish.
A pine’s armored seed carrier.
Gnarly bark. (Tree unknown.)
Cherry bark wrapped in shadow strands.
Tangle of shadows.
On ice
Winter is a slow time here on the mountain. Not much is moving and wildlife is elusive. However, Nature does provide a little interest in the variety of strokes in which she uses her frosty paintbrush. There are leaves carefully rimmed with ice crystals. On the cliff sides, bladelike crystals arise from the earth, separating roots from soil and rocks from their beds. And there are those those tiny, rimming crystals — flakes that stand on end in seeming defiance of gravity.
Phun with Photoshop philters
I’m not big on using Photoshop to “rescue” a bad photo, but sometimes it’s just fun to see what the program can do. Our office has been trying out the cloud version for a couple of months now. It’s a bit of a step up from CS3 on my desktop and Elements 5 on my barely-hanging-on-PC laptop. A couple of photos whose elements I thought translated nicely into the flat “cutout” filter — making them almost like prints, or even stained glass.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
We knew this little Sony digital camera was good, but who knew it could see into the future?
The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface 