Two bugs and a little birdie
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shutterspeedYay! Animals. This is mostly what I do. Here's a few shots from the last group I was putting on my photography blog...
I have been shooting a TON of dragonflies this summer. I think since last March I've gotten yellow, red, blue, green, black and brown ones. I'm particularly keen on this one because you can see the shadow of his wing-veins on the lilypad. (You may have to blow it up to see the details.)
From the "photography makes me stupid" files. I made an animal alphabet book for my baby nephew. I *only* used photos I took. (I shlepped the camera to the pet store and camped out in the fish aisle to get the X-Ray tetra... until they kicked me out.) But anyway - I needed a Y. So I chased Yellow-Jackets around a pond for forty minutes trying to get a good shot. This was the one I ultimately used.
The bane-of-my-existence bird. I kept finding these things ALL over Chicago. And they're highly photogenic. Seriously, you can walk right up to them. But I Googled until I couldn't Google any more trying to figure out what it is. FINALLY, looking for something completely different a while back, I found out what this is by accident. Anyone know? I put the answer in my journal. :) Seriously nature, WTF?
I have been shooting a TON of dragonflies this summer. I think since last March I've gotten yellow, red, blue, green, black and brown ones. I'm particularly keen on this one because you can see the shadow of his wing-veins on the lilypad. (You may have to blow it up to see the details.)
From the "photography makes me stupid" files. I made an animal alphabet book for my baby nephew. I *only* used photos I took. (I shlepped the camera to the pet store and camped out in the fish aisle to get the X-Ray tetra... until they kicked me out.) But anyway - I needed a Y. So I chased Yellow-Jackets around a pond for forty minutes trying to get a good shot. This was the one I ultimately used.
The bane-of-my-existence bird. I kept finding these things ALL over Chicago. And they're highly photogenic. Seriously, you can walk right up to them. But I Googled until I couldn't Google any more trying to figure out what it is. FINALLY, looking for something completely different a while back, I found out what this is by accident. Anyone know? I put the answer in my journal. :) Seriously nature, WTF?