It’s amazing how much my telephoto lens lets me zoom in. The flip side is you have to hold VERY still to get good pictures because the zoom magnifies every little movement you make when holding the camera.

This is uncropped, of the plugin about 4 feet from where I was sitting. The orange-ish hue is a result of the low lighting.

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So I went to the County Fair for the first time. I had no idea you could enter Lego creations! Where was this when I was a kid?! 0 comments more ...

Tonight brought much excitement. Up next to the light was a bright green grasshopper. He so conveniently stayed still for me to shoot him :) 0 comments more ...

I don’t buy much ‘stuff’ and so I can get pretty excited about the stuff I do buy (school has a way of eating up all your money…). I’ve been toying with it for over a year and so I finally went out and bought a portable hard drive. Now I’ll be able to carry all of my photos with me on the go. The literature that comes with it says it has room for 150,000 JPEG’s… 0 comments more ...

Since I’m making up the rules, it can’t be cheating and I’m going to put up another photo. Perhaps it even works better when placed beside the mountains from earlier today. I love the colour in the flowers, especially against the quieter background. The flowers, with their bent and twisted petals, give a realism to the scene. How wonderful it is to be close to nature. :) 0 comments more ...

They’re mountains and the scene is epic; what more can I say? 1 comment more ...

Here is the case of something relatively ordinary looking a little extraordinary. The car, parked the way it was, seemed to bode more energy and power than its simple surroundings suggest. 0 comments more ...

Note to self: When you take your camera out to take pictures, make sure you have a memory card to store said pictures!

So this is actually my second try at taking photos today, and I wonder if I could have got something with my other lenses… But in any case, here I present to you the flowers! The shot is simple enough, but I like the effect of the muted background behind.

So tomorrow, I bring the lenses and the memory card…

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A blog redesign is a big step, perhaps even bigger than my homepage because my blog gets far more traffic. The concern is that people will land here and because the look is different, they won’t recognize it as ‘my’ blog.

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Project 365 is an idea I’ve seen tossing around online various places and decided to give it a try. The basic premise is to take a picture every day for a year.  I started on July 9th and today is the 26th, so I have 10 photos in 18 days… hmmm. But I’ll do better — school has cooled off and I feel like I’ve gotten a better hang of what this project is going to require in terms of dedication. 0 comments more ...