At 5:45 this morning, I jumped out of bed excited about a photo venture Allen Parfitt and I had planned to a local train yard. But alas, it was not to be; due to an unexpected turn of events, the venture had to be called off. Well, instead of being disappointed, I used the morning to go on a photo venture of my own, right here on the Headquarters campus.

The detail of a delicate flower graced with water-droplets,
accentuated by the defused light of a partly-cloudy sky.

Abstract shots from a neighbor’s garden.

Deep depth of field is achieved by combining a wide aperture,
a long focal length, and close proximity to the subject.

Watch where you focus; it’s the place to which the eye goes first.

1/200 sec, ISO 800, f/8.0; an exposure
barely fast enough to catch movement in low light situations.

A fellow photographer let me borrow her 70-200mm L-series IS lens: an asset without which most of these pictures would not exist.

Let the wildlife come to you; it may take a long time, but if you wait quiet and still, you become part of the landscape before which nature displays.

“O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast
thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.” (Psalm 104:24)