Tag: nature
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I Finally Found a Dandelion!
Good grief I’ve been wanting to photograph dandelions for ages. I thought they must not exist near me, but last weekend I found one trapped within the apple blossoms in my front garden. It turns out that I’ve photographed one before when it was in the yellow flower form – I never knew what this flower…
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Sweetness & Light
I took this photo on my recent Changing Seasons shoot at Southbank Parklands in Brisbane. My friend and I were chatting and I spotted this plant waving in the breeze above the smaller plants around it. I tried my best to get it to autofocus but it didn’t want to, so I used manual focus.…
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It Wasn’t My Last Garden Shoot.
I did a shoot in my front garden last weekend and I wondered if I’d have time to do another one. Today, I did. I wandered around the back garden today, with my 60mm macro lens and got up to my old tricks of lying in the grass to get up close and personal with…
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Deceptive Planting
You could be forgiven for thinking that these photos were taken in some wintry location in Europe or the US. However, I took these in my back garden about a month ago. This pine tree grows in my neighbour’s back garden, tall and proud and I am always fascinated by it. Often, there are large…
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5 Tips for Macro Shooting
I ❤️ Macro. Most of you know that I love macro photography. True macro photography is the art of photographing a subject so that the resulting image is larger than life size – it magnifies the subject. This spider is approximately 5mm long which google tells me is 13/64ths of an inch. In the photo,…
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From Every Angle.
A very quick shoot in my garden a few nights ago. I spotted this little guy by accident so captured his adventures with my 60mm macro lens on my trusty Olympus OMD EM5. For The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge – From Every Angle. x desleyjane
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Image Reboot #5
Welcome to the fifth instalment of our Image Reboot – in partnership with Lucile’s Photo101 Rehab Clinic. You can find the previous ones by searching for #imagereboot in the Reader. As enthusiastic photography enthusiasts, we wanted to include some editing techniques here – I installed Lightroom about a year ago and have taught myself the basics of…
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Perfect in Pink
Pink isn’t just a colour, it’s an attitude. – Miley Cyrus I have some creeping roses outside my front window and I love to photograph them. I’ve left them alone for quite a few weeks as it’s been a bit cold, but I recently went out for a challenge to get some macro shots. I…
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Raindrops on Spiderwebs
When I was photographing dewdrops on some plants in my back garden, I noticed a some spiderwebs on my dead lime tree 😉 They made for some fascinating photos – not as sharp as I’d like, but hey it was 8 degrees Celsius and it wasn’t even 7am! Plus it was almost above head height…
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Dewy Gemstones
The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge this week asks us for our Inspiration – what makes us get up and go each day, makes us happy. Of course, there are a number of things – family, friends, missG, nature, so many things that are inspirational, or that motivate us to get up and DO something.…
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Dead Close
I simply adore this shot. It’s just a dead leaf, but I am fascinated with the shapes and textures. And only a couple of centimetres across. I was doing a shoot in the front garden for The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge (Close Up) and spotted this just above eye level, hanging down from a…
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Another Brisbane (Post) Sunset
Just a quick one to show you the light gathering above the horizon about 20 minutes after sunset the other night. Just glorious. For Lucile’s Photo101 Rehab Clinic – swing on by and visit us sometime. These photos were taken with my Olympus OMD EM5 with the 17mm (35mm equivalent) lens. x desleyjane
Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist 