Tiny drops of dew dangle from the fringes of Jewel weed leaves down by the brook.
Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm lens, ISO 1250, f/3.2, 1/1000″ exposure.
A pair of black-eyed Susans stand alone in a broad field at the Green Mountain Audubon Center in Huntington.
Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm lens, ISO 200, f/3, 1/2500″ second exposure.
Raindrops cling to daylily stamens out by our pond. The pollen has been mostly washed off the anther (the black bits…) but a small amount remains.
Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm lens, ISO 1250, f/16, 1/80″ exposure.
I went out in the morning with my camera into the hazy and humid air that seems to be the rule this summer here in Vermont. I took several photos of day lilies and other flowers, but didn’t realize that my camera’s optics had kind of hazed up due to the humidity. Most of the photos were unusable, but this one had an dreamy, soft smoothness to it that I kind of like. I suppose you can pay good money for a filter that does the same thing (or do it in software), but there’s nothing like a happy accident!
Note to self: give you equipment time to acclimate!
Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm, ISO 800, f/14, 1/640″.
Springtime’s prolific wild strawberry blossoms along Fargo Brook are ripening into a pretty good crop of berries. I had to lay down flat on the ground to capture this image. And, yes, it was tasty as was its neighbor!
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm macro, ISO 800, f/8, 1/60″.
Daisy fleabane in bloom in an old road clearing in the woods above Fargo Brook.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm macro, ISO 2000, f/13, 1/800″ exposure.
I was out shooting chicory blossoms along Camel’s Hump Road yesterday morning. This large fly happened to alight in the blossom I was focussed on. The crispness of the detail in the flower’s stamens and the fly’s wings and back, and contrasting colors really work for me…
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm, ISO 800, f/13, 1/800″ exposure.
Philadelphia Fleabane catch the morning sun down along Brush Brook in Huntington.
This shot was influenced by another photographer I follow on WordPress, Paul Davis. He tends to take a lot of shots of flowers and grasses with very narrow depth of field to really hone in on his subject while allowing the bokeh to really bloom behind. It takes a really fast lens (f/1.8 or f/2.8) to accomplish this. My macro lens can pull it off, but f/4.8 was the best I could do with the lens I had on the camera at the moment. Still, the effect is there…
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 18-35mm lens @ 32mm, ISO 800, f/4.8, 1/800″
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