52 Photos Project 5: Water Drops

I was pretty excited about the subject this time. I've been meaning to work on water-drops for a while now - the falling, splashing kind. Turns out that's harder than it looks. None of my new efforts were share-worthy.

So here are two of my favorites, featuring drops that stood still and smiled for the camera.




Posted for 52 Photos Project

Wordless: 17

Posted for Wordless Wednesday Bloggers

Macro Monday: Coat of Many Colors

This is a detail from a photo of a Giant Atlas Moth, taken at the butterfly house of the South Bend zoo. They are native to Malaysia. This one had just emerged from its cocoon that day and had a wingspan of about 10 inches. (They can be a full 12 inches wide.) Can you imagine seeing one of these floating around in your yard?

Just for fun, here's an even closer look:





Posted for Macro Monday at Lisa's Chaos.

Last Call

These were waiting on my kitchen island to be put away after a recent get-together. The star-like shadows and reflections caught my eye. The bleary quality comes from the Orton effect in picmonkey.

Posted for Shadow Shot Sunday 2 and for The Weekend in Black and White.

52 Photos Project 4: Crop It

I had a different photo in mind for the "crop it" theme (click here to see that one), but then I snapped this shot of Gatsby and was overcome by the awwww factor. You'd never guess from that innocent face that he is also known as "Gat the Destroyer". Every carpet in the house ... well. Let's just say it's a good thing he's cute.

Posted for the 52 Photos Project.

Macro Monday: Incandescent

The prompt for 52 Photos Project this week is "Crop it: a before and after view". Since this is the way I produce most of my macros these days, it seemed a perfect match for both memes.

I don't have a macro lens, but I can get about two to three feet away from the subject with my 50mm fixed. It takes very sharp photos, if I can get the focus just right. My little Canon G9 point and shoot lets me get very close, but it's hard to get a decent depth of field from inches away. So ... I take a wider shot with the T2i and crop the daylights out of it.

Here we have a burned out decorative lightbulb with rippled, iridescent glass, before and after the crop. My husband always shakes his head when I hoard stuff like this for its photo potential. Wait until he sees the six dozen broken egg shells I've been saving up.

Here's the "before" straight out of the camera:




Posted for Macro Monday and for 52 Photos Project.