This was somewhat inspired by anther photo I saw somewhere. Dandelions are blooming everywhere. I don’t want them in my yard, but they grow faster than I can get rid of them. They start with bright yellow flowers before they seed out. This one was up by the front sidewalk in full sun. It was… Read More Photography from Home – Dandelion
As you may know from Wednesday’s post, I recently went to a wildflower place near Fredericksburg Texas (and then to a winery). I was interested in the wildflower place for the large fields of wildflowers that I might like to photograph. You can see the bluebonnet pictures here. There were also some large fields… Read More Wildflowers and Hummingbirds
It’s wildflower season and in Texas, that means bluebonnets. The bluebonnet is the state flower and people plant them everywhere so that for a few weeks in the early spring they are just about everywhere you look. I went to a place near Fredericksburg that grows field of wildflowers. There are large fields of bluebonnets… Read More Field of Bluebonnets (HDR or no HDR)
Another rainy day and I was itching to do something with my camera. I noticed that my girlfriend’s African violets were really blooming, so I decided get the extension tubes and do some close-up pictures. I have a set of relatively cheap extension tubes by Kenko. They are basically hollow tubes with no optical element… Read More Violets and Extension Tubes
Sometimes a good place to take a picture is on the side of the road. I often carry my camera with me in the car and kind of lookout for something interesting, especially during wildflower season. Sometimes I see something and plan to come back later in the day when the light is better or… Read More From the Side of the Road
This morning after a light rain, I noticed little water droplets on a rose bud in my front yard. So, I ran in to get my camera gear to get a good close-up picture. See the image below. This is a Julia Child rose that I picked up at a rose nursery one day. It has… Read More Yellow Rose
