digital – Ink, Yarn & Beer

La Bee on Rose (Colored Flower)

I haven’t done any photography in awhile other than a snap or two out of my window. Yesterday, off to the local botanical garden with a new photo buddy. It was really nice to get outdoors again to take pictures, to sit and look and savor all the details the end of summer brings, from the last of the summer flowers to the turning of the leaves.

First stop here was this little brushy bush with red flowers. I don’t recall the name of the plant, but there were bees everywhere (in case you haven’t figured that out!). I had a 24-200 Z mount lens on my Nikon Z6ii, so I had no real macro lens, but at 200mm, I could keep my distance and wait for a bee. I cropped the photo considerably to show the bee and flower. And then this morning I thought up this rather bad title.

Nikon Z6ii, Nikon Z mount 24-200mm lens.

Late Afternoon

Kick back time after a busy day! The whisky comes later.

A Palm Tree, i

Sometimes I get obsessed with certain things I want to paint. Palm trees always fascinate me. I wonder why they evolved in the first place. To a midwest gal, palm trees are always going to be strange and mysterious and weird even though they have been part of my daily life since I was in my early teens. I expect anyone raised in a desert without any hardwood trees probably feels the same about oak trees.

Canon G7X Mark II, palm tree.

Fuzz Balls

I desaturated a color photo of this plant – not sure if I ever posted it before so here we are!

Light & Leaf

Oot and aboot, 50mm macro and the Nikon Z6ii, sometime ago. I liked the shadow on the leaf. 50mm macro lenses are some of the best walk-around lenses, I think.