Tag: photography

Iris

I’ve been busy writing lately and haven’t had much time to look at the world around me.  When I do look, I look at plants and the sky – the natural world.  Suburbs don’t have much to offer in the sense of drama and awe – it is the little things that must suffice.  And suffice they do, whether in the local botanical gardens or the vistas of the open spaces.  This is another image from my trip a week or so ago to the local garden, using the Nikon Df an the Tamron 70-300mm.  Early morning light and shadows made for some beautiful photos.

Please Be Seated

This is a doozy of a pano – about 40 – taken with the Df and the 70-300 Tamron.  I used MS’s Image Composition Editor.  It does a really good job, much faster the Photoshop.  Click on the image a couple of times to see the detail and size of this picture – and I reduced it substantially from the original pano!

This particular bench is a favorite of mine, both to photograph and to plop down upon to survey the world around me.

Yet Another Tree

I don’t live in a very exciting city, with high rises and fascinating places to go.  Little if any long history, with conquistadors and religious wars and so on.  Rather, I live in a place where suburbs exist, farm land and ranches are nearby, and the open spaces are places of refuge from long work days.  Although I was born in Chicago, most of my life has been spent in rural areas and small towns.  Today, I live in the biggest town since I was born, with 127,000 population, but it was designed to include 30% of it being reserved for open space.  How lucky am I?  Pretty darn lucky!