Sunflower

As the sunflowers have progressed along I have taken a few more pictures of them at different stages. The bottom photo is one of the smaller flowers a couple days before it opened. The middle photo is the one that I had previously posted and now has all the pedals open. The top photo is the same flower a few days latter, you can see it's progression as the center increases in size. I have been thinking that I might put together the different photos at different stages together in a frame to hang as they should make a nice series of photos.

Sunflower

This is one of the sunflowers we have growing out back. It is the first one to start opening up. You can see not all the peddles have opened up yet. They make for some nice color in a photograph with the rich yellow of the flower, especially with the green of the other parts of the flower and the blue of the sky. I plan on taking some more photographs as it progresses along.

Pumpkin Plant

The pumpkin plants are growing really well and looks like we will get several pumpkins from it. The leaves are pretty big and interesting so I thought they would make a nice black and white picture.

More from the Spaghetti Squash

I did another picture of the Spaghetti Squash in our garden. This time I wanted to get mainly the leaves of the plant. Once I had the image in my photo editing software I did a black and white conversion to the image and applied a "green filter" effect. The nice thing about digital black and white photographs is the ability to apply the colored filters when you process the image on the computer. If you were shooting film you would need the filter in place on the lens.

Spaghetti Squash Plant Flower

There are several flowers on my spaghetti squash plant now. I went out this morning and took a few pictures of them. I used a macro lens to get this and the flower was in shade so I used a reflector to bounce some light back onto it. I had to have the camera on a tripod and compose the picture then while I was holding the reflector I used a remote to trigger the camera. Maybe I should try using a kid stand to hold the reflector next time!

More Steller's Jay

This is another photo I took of the Steller's Jay when we were out camping. The shutter speed was to slow to freeze the wings as the bird was moving so you end up with this blurred effect on much of the body. It was a totally unintended look but I thought it looked pretty cool. ***By the way, in case you don't know you can click on the picture for a little larger view.

Flower on a Light Box

I was doing a little experimenting with back lighting a flower by setting it on a light box. With a subject that has a little bit of transparency to it you get a nice effect with some light filtering through the subject and a nice white background.