Fifty great macro pictures
Warning - some of these have bug pics. They are awesome though.
Now I think of it, I have a little magnifier filter someone gave me that's screwed onto a current lens. I'll test it out.
While ogling 3000 years old trees...
Instead of looking at the treetops while walking, STOP walking and look up.
Or you'll end up with one of these.
(shot with cellphone)
Last night I had trouble getting to sleep, and naturally overslept today. I didn't venture into the mountains...the general rule of thumb here is, if you can't get to the halfway point of your hike by noon or 1 PM, don't go. Given that I got up at 10 AM...Apollo and I went to the usual foothill park instead.
Sometimes a normally blah picture can be made interesting by using the background.
The smog over the city (beer factories yea) made this picture a little problematic to work with. I ended up with a 60s or 70s polaroid vintage feel to this picture. I don't love it, but it's interesting.
Below is a shot of the same mountain range as in the June's banner pic on the blog. Just a better weather day.
This picture in thumbnail isn't spectacular, but if you look at the large version (click on it), it becomes much more impressive in its simplicity.
The foothills here are bigger than the mountains back East. We've had so much rain that everything here is very green. It's quite a striking change. Usually by June, it starts to dry out and get brown. But I think it's good because we had such a late spring. The farmers here definitely needed the help because they had to delay their planting.
I forgot all of my photos on the dSLR are in RAW format - which means I need my computer to convert them to JPG. It'll be a few more days, probably. In the meanwhile, here's a few pictures that I took with my cellphone.
I actually didn't take many with the dSLR until the last day.
First day - ran into a rainstorm in western MD and W.Va. What you can't see is that there are 5 or 6 trucks surrounding me.
I was trying to capture the very low cloud cover.
Pretty clouds as the storm starts to break up.
Tadah! Bug splatter and all.
Today, I was reading an article about how Prez Bush decried displays of nooses. So, naturally, I thought about the pictures I just posted. "Uh oh?"
Why I shot these: I was interested in the artistic contrast of how pearls were used...Something beautiful used to make something cruel.
If anyone is offended by these pictures, please feel free to either email me or post in the comments, and I'll be more than happy to remove them. Likewise, if you'd like to share your thoughts on this topic, feel free to post.
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