This female downy woodpecker was on a feeder outside my window. The photograph was taken through the window. Photographing through window glass is rough on sharpness, because the window glass does not have the optical performance of camera lens glass. The window was not clean, either, and those imperfections can be seen as bright […]
This honeybee is photographed through glass in an observation hive. She (for all honeybee workers are female) is perched atop a plastic vessel that is used by a beekeeper to introduce a new queen to the hive. It is fortunate because it is otherwise difficult get a bee looking at you face-on in this hive; […]
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. […]
Today’s One Picture a Day is an experiment in post-processing. The subject is a crevice in a landscaping block wall. We put the wall in about ten years ago. Inside the angular crevices of the wall we have placed “hens and chickens,” also called “cats and kittens” and a variety of other names. This succulent, […]
“Almost White” was an exercise my professor assigned in a photography class many years ago. The challenge was to take a photograph that was mostly white. We were working in black and white film cameras then, and we made our own prints in the college darkroom. I forget now what my subject was, except that […]
Today’s One Picture a Day is actually a series. I was inspired by this recent post of a visit to an abandoned mill at the Quirk’n It blog. I love old machinery. It’s a window into a bygone era of heavy iron that was reality for generations of our ancestors, but has faded away. Much […]
I enjoy photographing the sky. Blue sky in particular. Really blue skies, the kind you get with a polarizing filter. Today was not a good day for blue sky. It was cloudy most of the day. However, as I went out for my One Picture a Day journey, the cloud deck shattered for just a […]
Snowy Forest Floor is our next effort to capture snow in the way it appears to the eye. I like this one for the blue cast in the shadows, and the sparkles, which are present in the real setting. There’s a hint of warm color from the setting sun as well. The sun was […]
Next up in our gallery we have an abstract of ice. The greenish cast is from algae growing on the wall beneath the ice. This photograph was taken with a Nikon D90, the 18-55 VR kit lens, and the D90 on-board flash. Winter is a challenging time to photograph. Color is difficult to find; fingers […]
Hello, and welcome to the first post in my gallery of photographs using the equipment recommended here at Photomiser.com. We have two goals with the gallery: one is to showcase the equipment recommended; the other is to become a better photographer! I am not professional photographer; I just want to take the best pictures as […]