My, Isn't That Just Dandy!

Here are some dandelions, or dandelion-like flowers. There are a few things technically I'd like to have done better, but oh well, that's the way it goes.

Come on Baby Light my Lamp!

Note the fairly smooth transition from the highlight area of the lamp, to the non highlight area. I can't remember the exact terms for this, but the larger the apparent light source, the smoother this transition will be. I just used a nearby computer display for this shot.

Eye Nose What's Going On!

It's always tricky to take a photo of your own eye. Uh, that's about all I have to say about this one.

Small, Wet and Purple

I quickly shot these flowers yesterday at a graduation party; in between group family photos. It was raining on and off that day and these flowers still had some beads of water on them.

Oh Bugger!

This bug was sitting around in the house. So I grabbed my stuff and set up a quick little off camera flash setup for it. As soon as I finished setting up, it flew away. So I stuck a flash on the camera, and chased it around the house. I'm not exactly thrilled with the result. It was a really cool lookin bug though.

Happy Trails!

Here's a quick snapshot of the new bike I just got today. The color is "gang green." I also got a bike rack that actually fits over the car's spoiler!

Triangle Coffee Chemical Cream, Ride Ride Ride on my Stailion of Green!

midnight shower sleep in the flowers and dream, hurricane, breakneck speed, rapid fire, dreams!
—Dicky Barrett/Joe Gittleman of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

I'm still using my create your own bokeh triangle bokeh filter thingy. I saw some other neat examples of what you can do here (in french [just look at the pictures, you get the idea]). That guy should have used smaller openings IMHO, some of the shapes got cut off by the camera's diaphragm.

UFOs?!?

Is this a blurry photo of UFOs?? Ah, no. But it's almost as cool (in a geeky, photo kinda way). I made my own bokeh. Bokeh is just the the blurry, usually background, area of a photo. I believe it's Japanese for background. They type of lens can influence the appearance of bokeh. Sometimes it looks like little circles, other times hexagons, pentagons, or whatever. depending lens characteristics that I won't get into here. Some people are snobs about bokeh; generally "smooth" is preferable to "chunky." Anyway, I had no idea that you could make your own bokeh shapes! It's so easy too! The hardest thing is finding a good, brightly speckled subject to shoot, out of focus.

This Stuff Grows Like a Weed!

So here's another grass post. I know the first photo bears a striking resemblance to an earlier post, at least conceptually, but It's quite different. Just because something has already been done, doesn't mean you shouldn't also give it a shot. How many times do people take photos of the front of someone's face filling up most of the frame? Lots of times, and each one of them is different—like a bright, wonderful, shining snowflake! Right, anyway… I currently work in a business park, in which there are a few other business. One of the business next to my work went out of business, or closed. As a result, the landscapers stopped coming by to mow the lawn. The grass is now over a foot tall. It looks so strange to me. I used to walk by there and there'd almost always be people outside chatting it up on a smoke break. Now there's just tall grass taking over.

A Ruff Day!

This is an Old English Sheepdog believe it or not. He just got a close haircut for summer. Here he's playing with a bag from Chinese takeout.

Late Night Sofa

I call it a couch myself, but sometimes I just like the sound of sofa better. I took this photo pretty late at night. I like the way the light caresses the surface of the couch.

It's All Rubbish!

I've fallen a bit behind on updating this blog. I'm still taking daily photos, but haven't gotten around to posting them in a timely manner. This is a conceptual photo about consumerism and waste… Ok, it's the only photo I took, just so I could add something to this blog.