Archive for the 'Photography' Category

A hitchhiker rode with me to work today, joined me for lunch, and then made the trip back to my house. Although I forced him to ride outside of the car, he didn’t seem too fazed by the whole ordeal. And I was quite surprised that he could hold on at 70 miles per hour, given his rather enormous size. What a trooper.

• My Little Green Friend
• Another Shot of the Same Little Guy

And as a bonus, here’s the original macro (Warning: 1.5 MB File) shot I took.

I couldn’t resist making one more post about my new camera. Tonight I took a few shots that turned out way better than last night’s horrible results. The images are all 1024 x 768 again, with the exception of image 12 (it’s 1600 x 1200). Enjoy!

• Photo 06: A nice colorful image of part of our driveway (one side of the loop).
• Photo 07: Another nice colorful image of the summer flag in front of our house (the flags change with the seasons and various holidays).
• Photo 08: One of the new rims I got for my car. These look way better than the factory wheels.
• Photo 09: An awesome macro shot I took of a tiny birdhouse in one of our potted plants.
• Photo 10: Hummingbird picture 1 (kindly posing for the camera).
• Photo 11: Hummingbird picture 2 (warily looking for that pesky male).
• Photo 12: Hummingbird picture 3 (in flight and a little blurry as a result … if I knew what I was doing I would have used a faster shutter speed).

I’m going to look into Flickr as a possible resting spot for these (and future) photos.

I received my Canon A620 today in the mail, and I’ve been playing with it since I got home from work. I still know absolutely nothing about this thing or how it all works, but I’ve taken my first five photographs, which I will now share with you. The images are 1024 x 768, so be warned about the larger than normal download size. And keep in mind that the originals are all 3072 x 2304 (the detail in these shots is great at high-res).

• Photo #01: A lousy shot of a portion of my living room.
• Photo #02: Another lame shot of our hummingbird feeder, sans any hummingbirds. Hey, I tried.
• Photo #03: Can you spot the hummingbird in this next lousy photo? I’ll give you a hint in just a moment.
• Photo #04: The fourth pitiful shot of some giant insect that was flying around our back door.
• Photo #05: A decent picture of part of our backyard.

Did you find the humming-bird in photo 3 above? If not, here’s a major hint. And here’s a closeup of the bird. Those stupid birds are so hard to photograph! I guess a newbie like me can dream. I’ll have some more shots up here before too long. I’ve got to figure out how best to organize my photos here at this blog, but I’m looking forward to some photographic goodness in the near future.