After we finished setting up for an art festival, I trudged to the van, and was greeted by this:
The gritty feel and the sunset seemed to summarize how we felt: Tired, ready to go home, but satisfied with a job well done.
As before, we have Cafe Press Store products available.
Don’t worry, my cheesiness will dry up eventually.
While dropping Katie off at the Heard Museum for “Critter Camp”, she showed me their flower garden. While admiring (and taking many photos of) the flowers, I found this tiny bee on a sunflower.
I don’t know if it’s a carpenter bee or some other sort, but I doubt that it’s a winged ant, as that would be trying to find a place to start a new colony.
Of course, products are available at our Cafe Press Store
You may note that I’m not using Flickr to host this image. It turns out they don’t want their galleries used for commercial purposes, so I’ll put photos there for “oh, how pretty” purposes, but you’ll have to check here or at our stores to see if it’s available for sale.
If you see a picture you like that isn’t, tell me.
Just got back from seeing “Get Smart”. Highly recommend it. Tired. Going to bed.
Good night.
The eminently nifty and geeky Insect Picture of the Day has “Spider Fridays”, but I don’t know that I’ll be able to do similar. However, I do have this:
A rather nifty garden spider found down at White Rock Lake. No camera info this time, as the original is at home and I’m not (MBA classes).
I’ll admit it, I’m inordinately proud of this one, though it was luck:
Stats: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi, Shutter Speed: 1/60, Aperture: 4.0, ISO Speed: 800, Focal Length: 25.0 mm
Ok, luck and a bit of post-processing. The original is a bit under-exposed, as Chris, Katie, and I were wandering through a heavily wooded area near sunset. So, I’ll admit it: I brightened it and may have turned up the contrast a bit.
However, that (apart from the translation from .cr2 to .jpg) is about all that happened to that image. Melia is horribly amused / annoyed that she has a cell phone in her hands in the middle of this magical scene. If it helps any, she’s taking pictures with it.
More precisely, a Black-eyed Susan with an Insect of some sort:
Stats: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi, Shutter Speed: 1/125, Aperture: 5.6, ISO Speed: 100, Focal Length: 53.0 mm
This was taken while out at White Rock Lake in Dallas, and I have my suspicions that the insect is a male mosquito (the antennae were rather fuzzy). Actually, I have something of a range of photos available from there, but I’ll try to make sure there aren’t any duplicates.
Oh, and I have the images available at Cafe Press.
As of right now, this is a test post. Apart from that, there’s the matter of the blog itself.
My aim: Show off my photography and post about whatever comes to mind, really.
