Snow Flower 2

Here is another photo I did of a Snow Flower when I went out again a couple weeks ago. There were a lot more popping up this time and I had a macro lens with me so I tried a little more of a close up approach on this one.

Snow Flower

One morning while the girls were getting their schooling with Grandma Poole I went for a hike along Galena Creek. The Snow Flowers were really just starting to poke out of the ground and this was the largest one I saw that day. I am hoping to go up there again maybe next week and see if I can find more to photograph.

Here are a couple close-up photos of a moth we found in the backyard today.

Doves

Probably everyday we have some doves hanging out in the back yard so I figured I would see if I could get some decent pictures of them. The hard part is getting close enough to them, even with the 500mm lens I had on, to get a decent picture. It also helps if you can keep the dog from running out the door as soon as you open it!

More SMOKE

These are a couple more images that I did last night.

SMOKE

This is one of the shots from my first attempt at photographing smoke. I used an incense stick to provide the smoke then just tried different ways of fanning the smoke trying to get some interesting designs. I got the idea from some photography another guy did that looked pretty interesting.

Self Portrait

I was trying some different stuff today doing a self portrait so I thought I would put one of those up here. This is an image I was actually going to toss as the original is pretty dark but I started playing around with it bringing up the brightness, adjusting the contrast, converting to black and white and then adding some grain for a bit more of the look you get from film B&W. From all that I get this.