7. February 2012 by Friedhelm.

Photographing flowers outside can be very challenging. When you are in a botanical garden you are restricted to the pathways and you are not allowed to use any photographic accessories inside the flower beds. That is fine with me since I want future generations to enjoy these plants as well, but it can be still a challenge. The second challenge is people, especially when you are photographing on a narrow path and they have to walk around you and your camera tripod. The third challenge is wind. Since there was a light breeze I had to crank up my ISO setting and I took several shot to make sure I got a clear image.

Enjoy this beautiful flower from Japan and keep on photographing!

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27. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

I sued a 135mm prime lens at f2.8 to create this image. While I was at Lake Yosemite I discovered that these little flowers were already blooming and I decided to photograph them in the morning sun. I used the lens wide open because I wanted just one flower to stand out and the others supporting the “hero.”

Enjoy and have a great week-end!

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4. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

Yesterday morning we were all fogged in. The light was beautifully soft and I saw this rose outside in my front yard. I grabbed my camera, tripod and a black cardboard to create this image. Camera setting: 180mm macro lens, f9, 1,20 sec., ISO 100, tripod mounted.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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31. December 2011 by David.

Not too many of my gifts were as photogenic as this orchid.

I hosted Christmas at my house this year, a rare occasion. My sister Annette brought me this orchid. I decided to photograph it with my Christmas tree as a background.

Keep clicking

Dave

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6. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

There is not too much blooming at Gamble Garden (Palo Alto, CA) in December. I still found a number of great opportunities to photograph. I found these petals quite interesting and photographed them using my round reflector to control the light at least a little bit. 180mm macro lens, f13, 1/50sec., ISO 400, tripod mounted.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

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27. November 2011 by David.

I’m not one for major photo manipulation, but I think this is just cool.

This is called the Droste Effect and is a plugin filter for Photo Shop. I saw it on the web and just had to try and copy it. The web video was about 7 min long. It took me just a tag longer, yes that was sarcasm. I tried several different items, this flower and a clock worked very well. Some stuff just turned out bad.

Learned that if I do much more of this I’m going to need a faster graphics card. Any suggestions?

Keep clicking

Dave

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21. November 2011 by Friedhelm.

I noticed flower baskets in many windows during my recent trip to Germany. I photographed these flower baskets in a small town called “Burg”, west of Berlin.

Enjoy and have a great week!

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30. October 2011 by David.

There’s more to a pumpkin patch than pumpkins.

This sunflower reminds me that even though fall is a wonderful time to photograph it also signals the end of summer. While the flower is still colorful the leaves and stem tell the future.

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Dave

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19. October 2011 by David.

Never really thought about it but bees must eat all year long.

I look for ‘bee’ shots mostly in the spring. But during a recent trip to a pumpkin patch we found a lot of very active bees doing what they do best.

Keep clicking

Dave

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18. October 2011 by Friedhelm.

I was actually surprised that the California Poppy were still blooming at the botanical garden in Tilden park, right outside Berkeley, CA. I used my little spray bottle to get some small drops on the flower and I used a diffuser to soften the light.

Enjoy and be creative with your photography.

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