This may not impress you, but for me it is a first. It is the first time I have captured a lightning bolt in a photograph. It was on a handheld iPod touch 5th generation, the camera I happened to have with me when this thunderstorm went by. The best strategy was to fire in […]
A basket of oranges celebrates our final One Picture a Day for January. Taking up on the earlier theme of the perfect orange, we brought a basketful into our tabletop studio for some practice stock photography. We are using the Merax One Shot Studio once again. I had a little trouble with the equipment. The […]
This is a bit of a vanity post. This Pinewood Derby car is a car I built for a “Dad’s Category” in a Pinewood Derby race that my kids also raced in several years ago. I thought it was pretty innovative, though I have seen many “guitar cars” since then. However, I have mostly seen […]
A Shark Eye shell is in the spotlight. Shark eye is a type of moon snail. Moon snails are predatory snails that live along the Atlantic coast. The snail feeds on bivalves like clams and scallops. It drills a neat, round hole to access the animal within the shell. Bivalve shells with these holes are […]
I pulled out the Merax One Shot Photo Studio again for this macro photography of a weathered coin. I wasn’t interested in taking a lot of time for this. I set up the studio against the wall. I stuck the coin to the wall with a bit of tacky putty. I laid the studio so […]
We could not make it outside to photograph today, with drab, wet weather. Normally, we’d probably just not get the camera out. But with our One Picture a Day project on the line, we got out the camera anyway. We headed into the studio. By studio, I mean a light box on the kitchen table. […]