Bright Leaf Canyon

Fun on Christmas Day with my new Lensbaby!

Sweet 35 optic in Lensbaby Composer Pro with both macro extensions. Lots of fiddling! Never say finished! Play on!

Sweet Butterflies!

From the butterfly workshop, a small blue with a big dark one in the back that helps set it off. The organizer of this workshop arrived a little earlier and poured cups of water, taken from the nearby creek, onto a few spots of the gravely road. This attracted dozens of the little beauties out to where we could easily photograph them. (I hope I am not revealing too much!)

Hungry Bee

A buzzy day for the bees in Anderson River Park. I believe that is a crabapple bloom she is enjoying. Canon 100mm f2.8L macro lens.

Natural Fall Beauty

The lensbaby spark is a fun and arty addition to my lens lineup.  Tho my professional photographer friends might not agree, I am thoroughly enjoying the spark's ability to capture the beauty of imperfection.

#wwpw2014 Redding, Ca

A little behind in posting! Geez, I have been very busy with work but gettin a just right slowdown now. I went with the Shasta Photo Club to participate in this year's world wide photo walk instigated by Scott Kelby. About 9 or 10 of us went to the McConnell Arboretum @ 7 a m on Oct 11.

And here is a photo of some native grasses (or weeds) highlighted by the morning sun.

Online Photography Class

I have taken an online class in nature photography over the last month with Kathleen Clemons at ppsop.net. I learned a new processing technique and have been using my Canon 40mm 2.8 stm lens in the reverse macro position quite a lot, as this allows me to focus very close to a small subject. Changing my point of view this way helps me see differently and create images not just snap photos. There is a lot of trial and error involved, but I do enjoy the process!

Winsome Web

Beautiful webbing on the porch makes a soothing high-key photo. This was taken with the Canon t3i and macro lens 100mm 2.8 L. Going out to take more pictures NOW!