We’re back to the Jordan Lake session again, but this time we’re going for the high art angle, better than A through E art, and frame-worthy portraits to boot. Get out your checkbook! And do a websearch to find out what a ‘checkbook’ is…
It’s gonna be a little heron-heavy, since that’s what was most present that day, but hey – herons are majestic birds
Sunday evening, we could see the clouds lighting up with the approaching sunset, and hopped in the car to get down to the waterfront, since the sunset (or sunrise) views at Walkabout Estates are lacking – too many trees nearby. On the way, we could see the sun already hidden behind a bank of clouds but edging those with brilliant gold and a few crepuscular rays, but this view
While preparing to stage some of the shots for this past Tip Jar, I was rearranging things in Deep 13 and needed to prop something up for a few minutes, so I went out into the yard to get a brick. I’m smart enough (and have past experiences that remind me) to check such things first before bringing them indoors, and so turned it over to ensure there were no spiders or fun things clinging to
Considering that I made this trip a week ago, I think I’ve stalled long enough on getting the pics up, but there are enough to split into two posts, so here’s the first. We’ll see how many weeks it takes me to get to the second…
Finding myself back in the area on errands, I arranged to meet up with the Inimitable Mr Bugg again and do a trip down to Jordan
If you’re into macro photography, sooner or later you’ll run into a subject that will benefit from a little more control in the setting, angles, and lighting than you can accomplish ‘in the field,’ and you’ll want to do some studio work. The good news is, setting up a macro studio can often be done in minutes with simple materials. The bad news is,
Some of the photos in the backlog, all local, all from a period of… I was going to say, “Several days,” or list the actual dates, but it seems they’re all from the 28th and 29th. We’ll start with the very post-modernistic moth, or maybe it’s the concept model that will look nothing at all like the subsequent production version.
I’ve said
Finally getting back to the beach pics – would have been nice to have them up within the last month to drive the numbers up a little, but I was lazy. And really, you’re going to see a little too much of the same thing here, because it wasn’t the most productive of days photographically and the conditions were fairly narrow, but still better than the featureless
Waiting until everyone’s attention was on the couple fighting over by the guacamole, September slips quietly out the door, but not before leaving a couple of abstracts on the gift table. Hey, why is it that on birthdays you open all the gifts in front of everyone, but for weddings you do it in the privacy of your own home? It’s completely ruined the fun of gag gifts…
Anyway, it’s
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.
