Focusing a reversed 50mm by rocking back and forth is difficult. Good exercise, but difficult. And it eluded me today, but I got closer than yesterday, so that counts for something. At two separate points, I was busily shooting bees, stopped, looked up, found a couple pushing a baby stroller stopped inches from me, and …
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365.293 just pretty, that’s all
It is really hard to use a reversed 50mm on 50mm worth of extensions as a walkaround lens when the wind is gusting. I think I’ll try just the 50 tomorrow, sans extension tubes, and see if I can get the bee and bug shots I missed today. And I’m finding that music helps me …
365.292 Abstraktes Bild
This is the broken mirror featured in the 365 back on days 165-171 inclusive. I didn’t even know the theme for Macro Monday over on G+ was ‘Broken’ today… Cosmic, I suppose. And speaking of cosmic, I think this looks like a panel from a graphic novel, maybe, or some science fiction manga maybe. Other …
365.291 Ohne Titel
Quick poll: How many colors do you see? (exclude white & black) I’m thinking of submitting this rather lazy but pretty shot to +Peter From‘s Three Colors event over on the Google+, but I’m wonder if there are really more than three colors here. Is a gradient from red to yellow two colors, three colors, or …
*365.290 panic at the Worldwide Photo Walk*
Before the walk even started, I could feel it coming. I resisted the urge to back out, though, and I did make it through the whole walk and the lunch after, and I don’t think I came off too strange to other participants. What follows is a text I sent to a very old and …
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Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk, 2012 edition
Move along. There’s not much worth seeing here. I had a rather severe attack of social anxiety and totally lost the will to shoot. Most of the pixels were tortured within an inch of their 1’s and 0’s to get even this poor showing. I guess there may be a bit of beauty here, and …
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365.289 a beginning
Sometimes, the only way to begin is to walk away. I hoped to have a happier beginning beginning this week, but it didn’t begin, it ended, and it ended before it even properly began. I’m not particularly bothered about this particular state of affairs: I was not long invested in the project, and I found …