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Category: Nature
..i see a seven, do you?
..do the mr roboto dance..
..he wasn’t the only surf sniper lurking the beach that time..
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begonia
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..not feeling good, i sound like a chain-smoking grampa..
..just enjoy the view..
..took the new toy out for a spin.. it’s not as easy as it seems (see the series of images below).. 🙂
..okay, so i’m new at this.. i’ll get this right somehow, in the meantime, enjoy.. 🙂
..navin says this is a sparrow, i’m going with what he says.. i gotta get a bird book or something..
..shot during the second day of the year, under a pier on a beach in cali..
..i just can’t think of a title now.. good thing the saints won.. 🙂
..got the urge to shoot some wildlife.. stalked a snaky-necked bird (must be a cormorant or something like that) under the bridge in windy 45+F temps, but it got spooked (thumbnail), ended up with this one..
..weekend weirdness strikes again.. just imagine you’re in some blue planet..
..listening to dethklok’s newest album, that song below is a downloadable song for guitar hero, i’ll spend the weekend playing it on “Expert” mode.. lol, or maybe not..
[audio:http://www.archive.digitizedchaos.com/audio/Laser Cannon Deth Sentence.mp3]..i thought this would be a great shot to start the week..
..not my shot, this one was taken by my wifey’s cuz.. ;D
..no holding back, just going overboard here.. lol..
..must feel great waking up with this scene.. check out that house on the cliff..
..best viewed supersized..
..that’s the sound these waves made while washing away the sand..
..on a different note, looks like it’s getting a bit warmer here down south.. 😀
..of the three times i’ve been here, this is the first where i had all the time to shoot and admire the scene.. my main goal was to shoot the rocky stuff, but it was high tide that time so this was what i got..
..taking a break from the vegas photos.. yeah, there’s more.. but in the meantime, here’s another one from the beaches..
..taken on a rainy day in California..
..i’ve been gone for a few days but can’t pass up the chance to post one for the new year..
..have a happy new year y’all! ;D
..thanks to my wifey’s cuz for taking this pic.. ;D
..something calm to ease you into the work week..
..shot while wading ankle deep in slowly rising waters.. the opposite view of this one..
..this is how winter looks like here.. well, it is actually cold.. it just doesn’t look like it.. 😀
..this was one skittish crab we chased around unsuccessfully with a macro lens mounted to a dslr, after a few feet, we gave up and used the p&s instead.. it was about the size of a thumbnail.. can’t say what type of crab it was though.. 🙂
..caught this while stretching my neck.. hehe.. nah, the blue sky was just too hard to pass up, i just had to look for an interesting subject to add to it..
..view this in mono..
..i dare you to get this leaf off my snout..
..taken a while ago at dauphin island.. i’m feeling a bit iffy about posting this one.. but i’m tired.. and sleepy.. i’ll be back to visiting you bloggers later.. 🙂
..still from last week, a pier that probably got washed away during Katrina..
..short break from the “wifey” series.. tried out the macro feature of this cam with this guy trying to escape my plate.. you ain’t goin’ nowhere bud.. 🙂
..more from the “wifey” series.. 🙂
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san remo
..that’s what those buildings are called..
The San Remo (145 and 146 Central Park West) is a luxury co-operative apartment building in New York City located between 74th and 75th streets, about 1/10 of a mile north of the Dakota building (which is located between 72nd and 73rd.) The San Remo is described by Glen Justice of the New York Times as “a dazzling two-tower building with captivating views of Central Park.” As a housing cooperative, its board has a “reputation for lenient admissions standards” compared to the conservative, old-money boards on the other side of the park. (more)
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..got my wifey a G11 on her recent trip to NYC, i’ll be posting some shots she took in the next few days..
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geo-“cash”-ing
..vivifying the vividness of yesterday’s post, here’s another one, taken yesterday while hitting up the casinos in Biloxi, MS..
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B
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..a snap of where i took a break while exploring bermuda’s coast..
..just some weed growing on the sidewalk.. looks like a tree, eh?
..wifey took a shot of these fruit flies trapped in our homemade fruit fly trap.. it reminds me of those prehistoric insects trapped in amber.. i also cloned out a few of them and, voila, it looks like a sequence of shots of a fruit fly doing some gymnastic move.. a flip and a somersault perhaps?
..there, that’s your scientific name, now get out..
..if you were lost and starving in a jungle, would you eat this? 😀
..sunday..
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..if you had a macro, what would be the first thing you’ll shoot at 1:1? for me, i guess it’s bugs.. 🙂
..creepy trees and a mansion, i think i see someone peeping out of the window (or maybe not).. 😀
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..i’m a big anne rice fan, that’s why when i read somewhere that she started out in new orleans and had a house here, i just had to take a snap of it.. so here it is 1239 first street, there was a remax sign in the gate though..
..you have to view this in mono, it’s pretty funky.. 😀
..still using a regular flash gun here, tilted in some contorted way just to illuminate the subject.. framing’s not topnotch because i was manual focusing while tiptoeing.. was a bit edgy too because this looked like a nasty spider and i wasn’t aware if it gave a nasty bite or not.. turns out they do.. 😀
The golden silk orb-weavers (genus Nephila) are a genus of spiders noted for the impressive webs they weave. Nephila consists of numerous individual species found around the world. They are also commonly called golden orb-weavers, giant wood spiders or banana spiders. In North America, the golden silk orb-weavers (see also Nephila clavipes) are sometimes referred to as writing spiders due to occasional zigzag patterns (stabilimenta) built into their webs, though these occur much more frequently in the webs of Argiope, such as the St Andrew’s Cross spider. (more)
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..a new category has been added here called macro.. i’ve been leaning towards doing macro now because i’ve not much to shoot here nowadays especially when i can’t roam around the place a lot.. but we do have a lake here and a fair amount of trees and bushes to explore so let’s see where that’ll lead me..
..so far, for shooting bugs 1:1, i found it difficult to shoot in available light because of the limited DOF, so i’ve created a DIY ring light and it looks promising (i haven’t used it on this spider though, it’s just your regular flash)..
..here’s a 100% crop of mr. spider..
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port of st. george
..the port of st. george, taken from barrack hill..
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