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.
I see a lot of photos of echinacea on the blogs that I follow here on WordPress, but I think there’s good reason for it! There’s something deeply appealing about these flowers. Perhaps it’s the almost translucent spiky central core, or the way the petals droop. I don’t know, but I love shooting them!
Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm lens, ISO 1250, f/14, 1/200″ exposure.
So many times I take photos of the the colorful and detailed fronts of flowers. This time I look underneath as a black ant climbs about in the latticework of Queen Anne’s Lace.
Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm lens, ISO 800, f/8, 1/1250″ exposure
A delicate tendril of morning glory vine twists around a ripened grass head in our front field.
Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm lens, ISO 800, f/5, 1/2000″ 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.
While making dinner at a friend’s house on the shores of Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks, two white tail fawns traipsed out into the field busily browsing on the lush grasses. They hung around for quite some time seemingly unperturbed by me hiding out behind a tree to snap numerous photos. I caught this one in mid-munch!
Nikon D600, Sigma 120-400mm lens @ 400mm, ISO 1250, f/8, 1/500″ exposure.
A close-in shot of tannin tinted, tea colored water and reflections from the surrounding trees. This is from the same Adirondack stream of my previous two posts. Here, I’m experimenting further with shutter speed and the levels of reflectivity that can be “dialed in” using a circular polarizing filter.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 24-120mm lens @ 65mm, polarizing filter, ISO 1250, f/4.5, 1/40″ exposure.
The tannin tinted waters of an unnamed stream flowing into Indian Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Recent rains have made many of these smaller brooks run high.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 18-35mm lens @ 18mm, polarizing filter, ISO 100, f/20, 5″ 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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