This weekend I finally found the chance to get out and take some pictures, as Saturday was a very nice day. I wandered around in my backyard for awhile, looking in the normal places, and found nothing that I hadn’t photographed several times already. The shoot was briefly interrupted as Eitan, Nathan, and I looked for ants that we could put in their ant farm. They were very into it but the ants we wound up using turned out to be too small as they later escaped. We found one bigger ant, but since we couldn’t find any friends for him we let him go in place of the smaller and more plentiful ones.
After satisfying the kids’ ant curiosity, I began to think about choosing better backgrounds for some of the insects. As we have a number of flowers in bloom, I decided to try that out. My first subject was an earwig that I found.
Continue Reading…
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 4:15 am. 5 comments
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I decided over the weekend to go and take some dew drop photographs. This provided a nice relief from hunting bugs – though I do rather wish now I had spent some time hunting them as we had excellent weather unlike some of our friends back east. Anyway, I settled onto the wet ground and began to take some dew drop shots with a primrose reflected in a dew drop.
However, a certain little insect decided that it wanted its photo taken and settled down right next to my shoot. Perhaps it had heard that I was photographing insects in the area and wanted a portrait. Who knows, but I was unable to resist the temptation to photograph it.
Continue Reading…
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 4:15 am. 2 comments
This weekend I glanced outside in the morning and noticed small drops left on my Japanese maple bush outside. This meant only one thing – it had rained the previous night. I rushed out with my camera as dew drops are one of my favorite subjects. However this time I decided to try something new. The last several times we had drops here, there were no flowers in bloom. Now we had ample primroses available – so I plucked one and placed it a short distance behind a dew drop. The shots were for the most part successful – though my wife still doesn’t like them. 
Still, I decided it was time to play around with Photoshop and see what I could do.
Continue Reading…
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 4:15 am. 4 comments
