water lily in our pondlet (muck bucket)
A few years ago when I started the pond, digging a big hole and piling the dirt up along with boulders to make a hill for a waterfall, I bought some pond plants and planted them in a couple muck buckets to wait till the real pond happened. This lily persisted and prevailed after all the others [...]
feeling a little monochrome just now
Close to a Daisy – monochrome macro panorama ©2010 Ed BookGetting close to a daisy can have a panoramic effect – click to see what I mean… Peace
My LiveJournal Blog is nine years old
On the 15th of this month, I will have Nine years of posting in my LiveJournal. In the spirit of celebrating the anniversary of my birth for a week vice day–which I started doing a few years ago when I missed my actual birth"day"–I’ll celebrate this LiveJournal anniversary for a week… whatever that entails… maybe [...]
Rhododendron macro in the rain by a Droid
Hybrid Rhododendron flower in the rainusing my Verizon Motorola Droid 5MP camera ©2010 Ed Book So… finally a post… I won’t explain my absence other than I’ve been really busy with a project (as if anyone cares) Yes, this is a camera phone photo. I went to Costco to replace my ancient cell phone [...]
Peony macro
Peony (Paeonia suffruticosa) ©2009 Ed Book This is one of the peonies from the garden. The air was moving too much outside so I brought this blossom into the kitchen and set it up on a stand under the skylight. As the sun was going in and out of clouds and changing the light coming [...]
I happened to be there
Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia uvaria) visitor ©2008 Ed Book some others Peace
winter blooming camilias
repost Winter Blooming Camilia – Nika Trail ©2002 Ed Book neither of our winter blooming camilias have buds so this bloom from a few years ago will have to do. How many have seen this image before? raise your hand. Peace
I think I like it (my new ‘pocket pal’)
the Canon PowerShot G9, that is… Here’s one of my first image tests. It’s a miniature dahlia in one of our raised beds. ©2007 Ed Book Canon PowerShot G9, 12MP, ISO200, 1/250sec, f/3.5, macro mode, hand held, backlit flower The G9 is much bigger than my last ‘pocket pal’, more than twice as thick and [...]
spidey and spidery
©2007 Ed Book These flowers are of the False Solomon’s Seal which I obtained for one of my gardens from the forest where they were logging and tearing the forest apart. I used a Canon EOS 1Ds Mk II camera with 180mm macro and also added the Canon D500 auxiliary close up lens. (the frame [...]
Rhododendron glow
©2007 Ed Book I gave this flower backlight––by holding the two macro flash heads behind the flower. Peace
Rhododendron
©2007 Ed Book I made these rhododendron images a few weeks ago when I was up on Whidbey Island. I set up my 180mm macro lens for the composition and then hand held my two macro flashes behind the flower so almost all the light would be coming through the petals. I had to hold [...]
