While macro photography can be fun and fascinating, it does require at least a little specialized equipment. Dedicated macro lenses tend to be quite expensive, and while they remain the best way to tackle the genre, there are other options. But first, let’s see why they’re usually the best option.
Full range of focus. Macro lenses can usually focus from 15cm, give or
Trying to get back into things now, after a beach trip this weekend – not the best time for it, but the opportunities weren’t coming up earlier. After a ridiculously hot summer, autumn weather came in abruptly, and Saturday was perpetual overcast and a little chilly, so scenic options were extremely limited and it wasn’t a good time to get in the water. Sunday
I was about to title this post, “Just playing,” because it was a quick effort to get a few clear closeups of a jagged ambush bug (Genus Phymata,) but considering the number of frames that I shot trying to get these, it hardly counts as foolin’ around. It was also intended as a lead-in to a further bit of news, but that hasn’t been done yet, so here we are.
Once again courtesy of Astronomy Picture of the Day, a few days back, we have a wicked conjunction:
first off, pretty decent image of sunspots, clearly taken with a solar filter. Getting the timing and focus down to capture the International Space Station so
I had a few wood duck photos to feature, a teaser until I get the video clips together, and I was thinking it’d be a nice change because we hadn’t had wood ducks for a while. So, exhausting researcher that I am, I looked for the last appearance of “wood duck” on the blog.
Which was yesterday,
A twofer, except they’re both half-assed, no real luck with the video this time, so consider these a teaser until I get better evidence. The video will illustrate it well enough.
So, right after we first moved in, we’d found some fox scat on the driveway, and then not another sign at all, save for a neighbor telling us she’d seen one in the past. When I’m in the upstairs bathroom
Don’t they say, “Never assume you know the answer to something that hasn’t been tried”? (And where should the question mark go in that sentence? Do I have it right? Or should I have rephrased it so it wasn’t even an issue?) (And who’s “they”? Or is that, “Who’s they?” Fucking quotes, man…) So while I can easily say, “It’s
First off, I apologize for missing another Tip Jar. I got both under the gun on a deadline for last Monday, and under the weather with a chronic gut. I was attempting to have this up a day or so late, but realized it would be better if I delayed it further to flesh it out with more example images. So let’s delve into infra-red photography.
To start off with, infra-red refers to a very large
Several days back, I looked out towards the pond in the early morning and saw this strange-looking web, largely because it was backlit.
You have to admit, those ‘dotted’ support strands are distinctive – there really was only a narrow time of day that this would be so visible. Notice how tightly-spaced the orb portion of the web is, obviously targeted towards quite
Out this morning gathering more images for the Tip Jar post tomorrow, I happened across this guy, anxiously hiding away from the morning glory blossom back there. This doesn’t make any sense to me, since all the blossoms that I’ve seen (save for Star Trek and Audrey II) have been distinctly non-aggressive but, you know, that’s towards me, who
