Nature's Way

Natures Sculpture _MG_6996R

Nature creates it's own art, even during a snow storm.

0 Comments May 18, 2012

Nature is going to return its place (HDR)

I found this in a beautiful abandoned shabby house on a weekend trip to the “Festung Grauerort” (http://www.festung-grauerort.de/) and I could not resist taking some pictures.

It is amazing how nature is going to return its place.

Thank you for all your visists and comments.

0 Comments May 16, 2012

nature's art installation

These are some fungi, a bagworm's case, and a squash tendril.

Taken for week 31 of Assignment52 - Abstract.

0 Comments May 15, 2012

Flower Bed at Wakehurst Place (Copyright Dave Halley 2008)

Flower Bed at Wakehurst Place Royal Botanical Gardens and National Trust House, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
Taken on Canon EOS 400D.
(Copyright Dave Halley 2008).

by http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehalley/

0 Comments May 13, 2012

Flower

I've been very busy but finally today I got to play with my macro setup that arrived a couple of weeks ago. I got a set of Opteka extension tubes, a 3-in-1 gold-silver-white reflector, one of those rings of led lights for the lens and the flexible grip thing, all bottom of the line, but fun to play with. I was set of shooting water drops with reflections inside (oh, I bought glycerin), but that is much harder than I thought. So, when I went to walk the dog, I picked up a few flowers. The whole thing is challenging, wind, not enough light, difficulty focusing, but had a lot of fun. I finally decided to go inside, turn on a bunch of lamps next to the window and use the gold reflector to shoot light in from the window. I finally discovered that Live View makes things a whole lot easier.

I like the colors and curves on this one. I used Nik Viveza to reduce the brightness of the background which was originally a dirty brownsih color. Added contrast and vibrance, and reduced brightness on the petal in the front, which was way too bright. This was a lot of fun, spent much more time shooting than in photoshop. I'd like to do insects too.

Shot with the 28-135mm with the 21mm extension tube.

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosz/

0 Comments May 12, 2012

Flowers on witch's large kettle ...

I found this flowers, the girl from the store told me that this flowers were from Mount Everest..
They are a delicate bunch of flowers.
I have this large kettle made of iron, very old, so, as I like the contrasts, I put them in this container and got some help from photoshop :)

This photo was taken in my studio.

Today is the end of a long holiday here, this is the reason why I wasn't around.
Wishing a great week to all of you .
Thank you so much ! ; )

Please ... View On Black ...many thanks !

This photo also is here .. www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/eos_50d/ ...thanks !

0 Comments May 11, 2012

Flower dewdrop refraction #2

Flower dewdrop refraction

0 Comments May 10, 2012

Royal Botanic Gardens

Been looking through some old images. This one is from the Royal Botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21651868@N07/4072037991/

0 Comments May 08, 2012

Nature Becomes Her...

Or she becomes nature...

This is my mood right now. Grumpy. Still irritable without nicotine? Hasn't it been long enough to even out from that? This photo was taken in Fishers as a storm was brewing. You should have heard the wind through the leaves.

source: thephotographymuse

0 Comments May 05, 2012

Garden scene

We visited a friend this morning and thought her garden looked just perfect

from Green Explorer

0 Comments May 04, 2012