Backlit Apricot Tree
Apricot tree in our backyard, backlit by the morning sun. This is a new thing for me, as I haven’t played much with backlighting and sun flare. It was a fun experiment that I would definitely try again.
Honeybee
A honeybee sips from a flower in the Colorado mountains between Silverton and Durango. One from the archives, obviously. I recently purchased textures for the first time, and have been playing around. This is one of my first experiments with them.
Ant’s Eye View
Sometimes I use realistic processing…and sometimes not. Today I went for something fun and jaunty and eye-pleasing: a view of wild Colorado daisies (not their official name) from beneath. To be fair, most of the color and light come from the angle of the sun and my camera; the lomo action I used just enhanced it.
For those who like a little background, these daisies were just down the road from this bee picture. Since they’re pretty short, and my DSLR + macro lens is big, I had to shoot this one blind, putting the lens on auto-focus, then dipping my camera beneath the flowers and taking a bunch of photos from slightly different angles. Many of them came out blurry or strangely cropped since I couldn’t get my eyes behind the camera to see what I was doing, but I had a few that I liked. I was at a mountain biking trail head; I can only imagine what the other people there thought of my weird position.
Raindrops on Lilies
As it turns out, it does rain in the desert – nearly every day for the past month, in fact. These day lilies are out in our flower box. They love the moisture, and I had fun playing with my macro lens, trying to get just the right angles and focus. For fun I ran the Moody Lustrous Pop action from The Coffee Shop Blog, and I loved how it turned out, especially with a little extra darkening along the edges and a grainy texture.
