30 Aug 2008
Bold Hibiscus
The flower was taken while on the beach in Jamaica at the Sandals Resort in Whitehouse.
02 May 2008
Flowering Cactus
Did you know there are flowering cactus? I always thought cactus were interesting and a bit painful to the touch, but I never knew just how pretty they are when they flower. Take a look and let me know what you think.
02 May 2008
Neon Tulips
Here are my glowing Easter tulips……which happen to be my favorite flower. I used Photoshop CS3 to give my tulips a bit more color.
01 Apr 2008
Petite Pink
Again, here is another flower I took with my Nikon Micro lens. I cropped it making it portrait and used my rule of thirds for this photo.
31 Mar 2008
Lilac
This flower was taken with my new Nikon AF-S 60mm f/2.8G ED lens. Do you see how my subject is clear but the background is blurred? The AF-S 60mm f/2.8G ED is a compact, versatile Micro-NIKKOR lens which is ideal for close-up, copy work and general photography. An Internal Focusing (IF) design allows faster, smoother [...]
26 Feb 2008
Viewing Pleasure
Spring is just around the corner or is that wishful thinking on my part? When taking this picture, I used the wooden chair as my rule of thirds. As you can see, there are different depths starting with the bush & flag on the left, chair on the right, dogwood tree on the right [...]
25 Feb 2008
White Magnolia
This beautiful flower blooms right outside in my backyard. As you can see from the photo, the leaves look almost plastic. I didn’t need to do much to this photo but a bit of cropping on the left side. I had an f-stop of 8 and focal length of 38. I [...]
11 Feb 2008
Pretty Pink Petal
Shutter speed: 1/100 second, f-stop: 4.5, Focal length: 55mm.
It was a spring day and the pink flowers on the magnolia tree had just opened. The camera settings ensured the forest in the background was out of focus, helping to emphasize the flower as the subject in this photo. The camera angle relative to [...]
11 Feb 2008
So Blue
I found this flower in Jamaica, while we were on vacation. It was originally red and yellow. But….using Photoshop, I decided I would play around and change the colors to make the photo more interesting and unusual. What do you think?
11 Feb 2008
Blazing Azalea
This came out perfect, given the way the natural sunlight illuminated the flower. Azalea’s are so pretty, but they last such a short time!
