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Whatever Weds. Spring!

April 14, 2021April 13, 2021Posted in California Wildflowers, Nikon, Northern California Wildflowers, Photography, Spring, Whatever WednesdayTagged California Poppies, Fence, Mistletoe, Oak Tree, Orange, Rocks, Spring, Tuolumne County, Whatever Wednesday, Wildflowers61 Comments

On our way to see Baby Girl, The Handsome Surveyor and the boys last week we saw a hillside covered in California Poppies, and I had to stop to make some images.

The hillside was steep, mostly on private property so I was unable to climb the hill to get a better composition. There were power lines going through the scene so after I uploaded the images I took to my digital darkroom aka- Photoshop CC to make some additional improvements in addition to my normal tweaks to white balance, whites, and blacks, and camera/lens corrections. I took out the power line using the spot healing brush, then I cropped the image to remove a big bush and some partially showing trees, and lastly I removed a tree top at the top of the image. So the image went from this…

To this…

For some reason the finished image looks a bit washed out here, but not in Photoshop. Hum?

Baby Girl asked for a print of the final image and I wanted one too so, I’m having it printed up. I hope it looks good when they arrive.

Which one do you prefer?

Nikon D810| Nikkor 24-120mm| PS CC 22.3.0

more to come…

Spring makes an appearance in the Backyard

April 30, 2018April 30, 2018Posted in Cultivated Flowers, Flowers, Nikon, Photography, Spring, Still LifeTagged Cranbrook Bikes, Fence, Flowers, L.M.Montgomery, Nikon, Photography, Quotes, seat, Stilllife23 Comments

Baby Girl’s cruiser looks cute there among the flowers.

Bicycle among the Flowers

I wish it wasn’t so windy I’d do some macro photography. Maybe this week-end. Fingers crossed.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

more to come…

Wordless Wednesday 12/52 Spring came Barrelin’ In!

March 22, 2017March 22, 2017Posted in Cultivated Flowers, Flower Photography, Nikon, Photography, Spring, Wordless WednesdayTagged Amador County, Cultivated Flowers, Daffodill Hill, Daffodills, Flowers, Hyacinth, Nikon, Spring, Volcano CA, Wheelbarrel, Wordless Wednesday32 Comments

Spring has Sprung

Nikon Df| Nikkor 105mm | Delkin Digital Film| PS CC 2017 & On1| Daffodil Hill, Volcano, CA

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What’s Blooming?

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016Posted in California, Flowers, LensBaby Composer Pro, Macro Photography, Photography, Spring, What's BloomingTagged Blur, Calla lily, Daisies, Flowers, Lavender, LensBaby Composer Pro, Macro photography, Nature, Nikon, Shallow Depth of Field, Soft Focus Optic, Spring, What's Blooming20 Comments

Spanish Lavender from my neighbor Maria’s yard. She has the best garden!

Spanish Lavender Macro Photography-LensBaby

This is a hedge that we put in on both sides of our house for a little more privacy.

It’s been so many years ago that we put it in I can’t recall the name of it. It attracts the bees, and looks great when in bloom. It has red and green broad leaves and is ho-hum when not in bloom. 🙂

Privacy hedge- macro photography Lensbaby

We just had our 26 yr old railroad tie retaining wall/planter box replaced with a cement stone looking wall which meant I bought new flowers to replace those that were let go or trampled on while the wall was being installed. These are some sort of cone Daisy. I need to ask Rick our contractor what he planted. I love these!

Macro Photography-Flowers-LensBaby

Calla Lily- I love this blossom, but have a really hard time photographing it and getting on film what I see in my head, but I adore this curve.

Calla Lily-Macro Photography-LensBaby

Nikon Df| Nikon 105mm macro lens & LensBaby Composer Pro w/Soft Focus Optic & 8mm and 16mm Macro converters| Delking Digital Film| PS CC 2015

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Early Spring!

February 9, 2016Posted in Bees, Flower Photography, Flowering Trees, Honey Bees, Nature, Nature Photography, Nikon DF, Photography, Poems of Robert Frost, Poerty, San Jose California Nature Photographer, Seasons of the Year, Spring, Trees, WinterTagged Bees, Flowering Trees, Nature, Nature Photography, Poetry, Robert Frost Poems, Seasons, Spring, Sweat Pea Vine, White blossoms27 Comments

I had a walk-around the neighborhood Sunday morning and found Spring everywhere.

The flowering trees are in bud, and beginning to blossom while others are in full bloom!

A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost-

“Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.”~Robert Frost (from A Boy’s Will, 1915)

Flowering Tree in Full Bloom

The huge white flowering tree was a hive of activity in the canopy. The buzz of bees

was dizzying, and the warmth of the sun on my face when I looked up felt wonderful, healing, and nourishing.

The branches were heavy with blossoms,

Flowering Tree in full bloom

papery white, with lovely “look at me!” centers.

Blossoms on a Flowering Tree

Plus one more…

Nearly home I found a huge Sweat Pea vine spilling over a fence with dozens of busy bees.

Honey Bee and the Sweet Pea

Nikon Df| Nikkor 28-105mm| Hoodman Digital Film| PS CC 2015

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Harbinger of Spring

March 25, 2015Posted in LensBaby Composer Pro II, Lupine, Soft Focus Optic, Spring, Table Mt Ecological Preserve, WildflowersTagged LensBaby Composer Pro II, Lupines, Nikon, Soft Focus Optic, Table Mt Ecological Preserve, Wildflowers4 Comments

Lupines!

They are one of the first wildflowers to show up in Spring. There were still good fields of them on Table Mountain the day I was there. The Goldfields were largely spent already.

Nikon Df| LensBaby Composer Pro II w/Soft Focus Optic| Hand-held| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film|developed in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Mixed bag…

March 6, 2015Posted in Flowers, Macro Photography, Mixed Bag, Nature, Spring, Still Life, Strobist, ToysTagged Clockworks, Flowering Plum, Macro photography, Mixed Bag, Nature, Nikon Df, Still Life, Toys, Wind Chimes12 Comments

Here are several macro images I made while working on my Project 52.

An alternative to the “Nut Job” image from Week 6

Soft notes on the wind…

Clockworks…from late Jan. 2015

Spring! From mid Feb. 2015

Nikon Df| AF-D Nikkor 105mm Macro lens| Hand-held & Clockworks and Nut Job were Tripod shots with SB910 and SB600 Speedlights

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