20. August 2010 by Friedhelm.

I took my son to school at 5:40 AM. Afterwards I drove outside Merced to photograph at the water canals and the sunrise over the foothills. Suddenly I discovered all the spider nets over the water and I decided to photograph them. The light was just beautiful!

Camera setting: 200mm focal length, f5.6, 1/80sec., ISO 100, tripod mounted.

Enjoy and get out of bed to photograph early in the morning!

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8. August 2010 by Friedhelm.

“Good bye God I am going to Bodie!” This sentence was written by a young girl into her diary entering the “wicked” city. I can imagine that the need for security was high in a city where many homicides occurred. Therefor I should have been not surprised finding two locks at this door.

Enjoy and have a great Sunday!

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27. July 2010 by Friedhelm.

I was privileged to be part of the Merced City Walk last Saturday. During my walk I discovered an old window. The glass reflected the light in all kinds of colors and wood was pretty much deteriorated which created the possibility of an interesting image. Camera setting: 70-200mm lens with 12mm extension tube and doubler, f9, 1/13sec., ISO 100.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

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20. July 2010 by Friedhelm.

On my walk through Muir Woods I came a cross this spider net. Looking closer i saw the a leaf got tangled up in it. Then the spider must have integrated the leaf into his construction and it became part of the net.

There is always something interesting to photograph in this world. Go out and find it!

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27. May 2010 by Friedhelm.

I love to photography beauty. I am constantly on the lookout for beauty and I am happy when I find something so beautiful like this cactus. I hope you can enjoy it with me and I wish you a happy working day!

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4. April 2010 by David.

Here is a close-up of the inside of a flower, what a bee sees. I like the texture and the small grains of pollen that are just a bit lighter than the rest of the flower.

Keep Clicking

Dave

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21. March 2010 by David.

I went to Hite Cove yesterday for some wildflower photographs and kept my promise not to take any landscape or sunset shots.

This spider was about the size of the tip of a ball  point pen. I used my 28-135mm lens set at 117mm with a lens doubler and two extension tubes. I also used a small flashlight to help illuminate the web since I was taking this after sunset.

F6.3 at 1/5th sec, 117mm at ISO200, tripod mounted.

Keep Clicking

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9. March 2010 by Friedhelm.

I visited many art exhibitions in my life and often I thought: “I could have done that!” The matter of reality, I did not do it. At some point I decided whenever I see something interesting I am going to photograph it right away. My eyes caught our old hair brush. It looked intriguing. I photographed it. That simple!

Enjoy and when you see something, photograph it. Never say to yourself: “I will come back later,” because it will not happen!

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8. January 2010 by Friedhelm.

On our last trip to the coast my daughter collected shells that we took home. I photographed them using my old large format camera connected to my DSLR using a lightbox that David had built for me. In post production I changed the background from white to black. Somehow this image reminds me of a volcano where the hot lava flows down and gets cold in the process.

Enjoy and happy Friday!

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22. December 2009 by Friedhelm.

After the rain fog usually sets in. The high moisture forms wonderful raindrops at plants and spider webs. I discovered this larger raindrop on a rose stem surrounded by many tiny raindrops. I used an old 55mm M42 Chinon lens and extension tubes to get this shot. I had to get close to the drops and I had to be very careful not to touch them and not to create a small air wave which would have destroyed the drops.

Enjoy!

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