I went to Harris Teeter tonight (at about midnight) to get a ham for dinner tomorrow night. I found myself being annoyed by the expense of the “pre-cooked” 5lb hams, nearly $20 for 1 ham, and it includes a bone. Not exactly what I consider to be a good deal. I was intending to ideally […]
I have created an introduction to my personal Project 365 to place in the front of the binder in which I am mounting prints of all of my project photos. Here is the (quite lame) introduction I wrote. Its good to know that I have not lost all of my skills of BS that I […]
Flower shot through the railing of the deck, the way they are seen through the living room window.
Lately I have been doing a lot of astrophotography, but I don’t often get great color like this. I suspect it is because I went out earlier in the evening this time (about 7:30pm) to get this shot. As one of the comments states, the foreground is blurry, so the stars are in focus. I […]
A few days ago my new softbox light arrived, I was so happy, I even played with how it worked on the ground, etc. I was a little unhappy because the light wouldn’t screw into a tripod, so I figured, ok, there must be a trick to this, that’s why Adorama was trying to sell […]
It might be close with the muscadines this year. They may finish before their cold hardiness is put to the test.
Not the greatest astrophotograph, but its a start. Chris pointed to a blue patch in the sky and asked what it was, I pointed the camera and gave it a shot. Not a long enough exposure to pick up the blue in the Pleiades or the Reflection Nebulae, but I did get the stars themselves. […]
I hate that lately I have been awake mostly at night. I feel so strange when I realize that daylight is gone. This is one of the lamps that illuminates my night and makes things seem a little more bright.
What do these objects have in common? They were laying around the kitchen when I wanted to do a still life.