“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” ― Eudora Welty
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For weeks my days have been full of the sounds of banging hammers, and the Pouft! of a nail gun so, thought I’d make an image of nails for this weeks image.
This is 4 images stacked in Photoshop CS6.
Nikon Df| AF-D Nikkor 105mm Micro| @f4.5| 1/200s| ISO 100| SB910 @ 1/8pwr camera left high in front of subject bounced off ceiling
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The Feeder is busy again with House Finches. The females look like they’re molting, but the males are dazzling with their vibrant red heads.
The Black-capped Chick-a-dee makes daily appearances too, but I’ve not got a decent image of it so far this season.
The Mockingbird has a mate and they’ve been busy bullying anything they can. I caught one with a nice, fat bee last week. Since it didn’t eat it straight-away I’m guessing it went back to the nest with this meal.
A new visitor to my yard this year is a Black Phoebe. Isn’t he handsome?
The female Anna’s Hummingbird prefers the Lantana to the feeder this year so I try to catch her there when I’m out back. She’s lovely when the sun hits her back.
Here’s a macro image I created sometime ago that never made it to my Project 52. I used to set up this engine and a several cars around the Christmas Tree when my kids were little. It’s been buried in the garage for years, but I rediscovered it while cleaning out the garage. It’s a Bachmann Union Pacific Diesel Engine. Now that we have a little one (#1 Grandson) I’ll have to start setting it up again.
Speaking of the garage, that reminds me it’s been sometime since I talked about our remodel. It’s coming along very well. They’re right on schedule.
April 29th: Ground-breaking day. It was fun. We had a little digger in the front yard digging out the place for the foundation. #1 Grandson loved that! This is how the front of the house looked before the digger arrived-the foundation’s been planned out-
The digger
A lot has happened between then and early June- The foundation was poured, the framing went up, and June 2nd this is how the house looked at the end of the day.
Next week our new front door, and front windows will be installed, the plywood for the roof will be put on, and the following week they plan on breaking through the walls to the house so we need to move to other rooms while the work is being done.
There’s a lot of changes in the Master Bedroom, and bathroom that I’ll share in an upcoming post.
I’m feeling better. I hiked up the steep hill yesterday. It was tough! Probably more than I should have done since I’m still coughing and having sinus issues. What was I thinking? 🙂 Other than that it’s been a quite week-end.
I hope you all are having a great week-end!
Nikon Df| AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4| Lensbaby Composer Pro| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film| Hand-held
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Nikon Df| AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm w/ Canon Close-Up Lens 500D| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film|
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Wishing all Mother’s a wonderful Mother’s Day, and fabulous week-end!
Nikon Df| Lensbaby Composer Pro w/ Soft Focus Optic at f/4, 8mm Macro Converter, and Wide Angle Lens| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film| Alzo Continuous light 5500K camera right high| Developed in Photoshop CS6 and Nik Suite| Texture “White” by Jennyw47
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Throw out the blanket, or find a nice rock in the shade, then relax and let the perfumed breeze fill your senses with the sweet scent of Spring.
I took the above image a couple of weeks ago while hiking in Calero County Park in South San Jose, CA. I and several other photographers hiked 5.5 miles and spent 6 hours photographing wildflowers.
Here’s another one from that day…
Triteleia Laxa- or it’s common name Ithuriel’s spear. This is the first time I’ve seen this wildflower, and I found it again in Sunol, CA last Saturday!
A friend and I went for an easy hike in Sunol Regional Wilderness Saturday morning and we found these tiny mushrooms.
…and nearby along the creek where it pooled up a bit we found this lovely little bouquet of Spreading Fleabane…
I used my Lensbaby Composer Pro with Soft Focus Optic at f/4 for all the images, and for the mushrooms, and Triteleia Laxa I also used the 16mm Macro Converter. For the two landscape images I used the Wide Angle Attachment all mounted to my Nikon Df.
On this last image of the Spreading Fleabane I really like the swirling background and how much it reminds me of the Petzval Lenses.
I hope you find time to enjoy Spring this week!
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It’s Theme Week over at Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness 2! Yes, we’re doing Fences. This is a fence in my neighborhood. I love the worn, distressed paint on its slats, and the beautiful Roses peeking out.
I used my LensBaby Composer Pro with the Soft Focus Optic @ f/4, and the 8mm Macro Converter to make this image. My Composer Pro is living on my camera (Nikon Df) this season!
To see all the fabulous contributions to this week’s MM2-9 head on over to Leanne’s site here.
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Beware of the terrible tiger,
You don’t always know when he’s near,
But his eyes shine like lights
In the blackest of nights,
And his growl makes you tremble with fear!
~Giles Andreae
From the Children’s book Rumble in the Jungle 1998
Nikon Df| Lensbaby Composer Pro w/Soft Focus Optic, 16mm Macro Converter, and Wide Angle Lens @ f/5.6|Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film| Hand-held
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