Rocket Kid built a tower of sorts and we agreed it would be fun to photograph. Except for this one which I turned b&w, these shots are sometimes cropped but otherwise unedited. This one, I was fascinated by the variety of color. All of the bricks are white, and all of the variation is simply … Read more
Sir Nikolas Cameron and I took a trip out to the garden to see what we could create. The buds that I had originally intended to shoot turned out not to be photogenic, at least to the extent I was willing to work with them while fighting the ants. (All of the small biting critters … Read more
One of the dogs is nervous all the time and rarely will hang around when the camera comes out. (It makes noise! Scary!) But I caught one of him before he hid. The other was lounging on a pillow and didn’t care one way or another if I took his picture. I was able to … Read more
After last week’s post, a local friend gave me a gadget I could potentially use to hold the matches, ideally yielding a better finished product. It definitely worked. I’ve still not captured exactly what I see in my mind’s eye, but these are better than last week. The lighting and the background are different as … Read more
I saw a macro photo of two burning matches and wanted to try to recreate it or make something similar. My results weren’t what I’d hoped for, but they’re decent. Part of the problem was that I didn’t have anything to hold the matches. I took many shots with one match instead of two, then … Read more
Rocket Kid and I brought the toys and the camera to the pool for some fun. It turned out to be more frustrating than fun, because of buoyancy and because the water moves, both of which make it difficult to focus the camera. Also, it was bright and sunny which makes looking at the (backlit) … Read more
I didn’t take photos this week, but I have some photos from the Mesa Community College Rose Garden that I haven’t shared with you…until today! I don’t know my roses, and I didn’t take notes on which were what kind, so I have nothing useful for you in that way. A couple of close-ups of … Read more
Most of my photographs not of people have been of things I’ve seen in my travels. I notice things, but I rarely create them. I’ve been working on creating more, setting up still-life-type of situations, and then taking shots. The struggle with this, at least for me, is that it requires a different way of … Read more
I decided to change the recurring title of these posts to give a small idea of what’s in them. I’m not going back and editing over a year’s worth of them, but that will be in place from today forward. Anyway. I’m in a decluttering challenge, and it was time for the candy to be … Read more
Thank goodness for YouTube. I mean, maybe I would have figured out how to put the attachment for my macro light on my lens, but it seems unlikely. The directions told me details about the eight different attachments and that I should choose the right one. They did not tell me how to choose the … Read more