A shot of a honeybee that I took a few days ago. I had found a bunch of 'em on my elephant garlic. They seemed docile enough, so I got in close and took some shots!
Honeybee with Garlic Blossom
A shot of a honeybee that I took a few days ago. I had found a bunch of 'em on my elephant garlic. They seemed docile enough, so I got in close and took some shots!
Tigard Festival of Balloons 2006
These shots were taken early this morning at the 2006 Tigard Festival of Balloons. Bryson was especially impressed with them!
My Birthday Beach Trip
Heres a shot of todays sunset at Cannon Beach. Cassandra, Bryson and I all hopped in the car earlier in the day and spent the day here to celebrate my birthday. Look for more photos in the coming days.
Bugspotting
Heres a shot of Bryson with his grandpa last saturday at a local plant nursery. Bryson is pointing out a bumble bee while sharing cookies with his grandpa. I have been getting tired of the macro photos lately, so I figured it was time for a family photo.Praying Mantis
Heres a shot of one of my new garden predators. I've released about 400 of these little guys into my garden, hopefully they'll provide a balance to all the other nasty critters in my garden. This photo is of a newly hatched mantis that is only about 8 hours old. Look closely and note the detail of the lenses in his eyes. This hatchling is about 1/2" long.Sheetweb Spider on Euphorba Blossom
Caught a picture of this little fella crawling around my euphorba in the backyard.
Garden Fly
A couple of shots of a garden fly that I found in my backyard this past Sunday. Its really difficult to get a decent depth of field when doing macro shots. I had to stop my lens down to f11 for the fly on the pin shot, which initially made it really dark. Fortunately, I shot the image in RAW format so I was able to brighten the image by 2 stops. I then did my sharpening and contrast/brightness adjustments in Photoshop. Finally I ran the image through a program called Imagenomic Noiseware that really helped clean up the noise in the image.
Carpenter Ant
A shot of a carpenter ant from my backyard. Check out the eyes! I'm beginning to get really hooked on this 'reverse mount' technique for macrophotography.Experimentations with Macro-Photography
Heres a shot that I took today using a reversed lens on my camera. This method of photography is very difficult to master but it can be very rewarding as well. I had to take about a dozen shots of this spider before I finally got a shot that I liked.
Squirrel Raid!
Ah, spring is finally here! I was staring out into my backyard this morning while drinking my coffee and observed this squirrel raiding one of my bird feeders for breakfast. I'm going to have to keep that feeder filled more often, as watching a squirrel trying to get food out of a hanging bird feeder is good entertainment!
Fooling around in Photoshop
Haven't been very productive lately. I've been to busy to go out and get photos. So heres a rework of a self-portrait that I'm thinking of using in my profile instead of the photgraph. What do you think?
Multnomah Falls Today
Heres a real quick, rather unedited shot from my drive in the gorge today. I had been whining all winter about how hard it was to get a shot of the falls with the sun on it. Well today, I finally got my chance. I'll probably clean this one up a little more.
Red Tailed Hawk
Here are some shots of a local Red-Tailed Hawk that has been hanging out in the area near the old rail trestle that crosses McLoughlin Boulevard at the end of River road. Theres a Bald Eagle that has just moved into the area and I plan on getting some shots in of him soon as well.
Portland Skyline, Portland Spirit and the Hawthorne Bridge
Yes, another shot of the Portland skyline from my favorite vantage point near OMSI. In this photo you see the Portland Spirit as it approaches a raised Hawthorne Bridge. I wish that I had the presence of mind to make my exposure as the boat passed under the bridge, but maybe I'll get that one next time.
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