Macro Flower 2

It's been raining here for the past two days, but today there was some sun in a break between the clouds. There was just enough time for some of the water to soak into the ground. It's amazing how much has changed in the past couple of days. Flowers are peaking their petals out, the grass is green, and almost all the trees are covered with buds.

I got out today during that break in the clouds and took some more macro flower shots. These images are mostly raw from the camera, with some cropping but no tweaks.

For more macro flowers, check out this page: Macro Flower

Equipment Used:
Nikon D5000 12.3 MP DX Digital SLR Camera
Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
Nikon BR-2A - Reverse ring Nikon F - 52 mm thread

Photo Recap

I have been posting my photography on this blog for about 4 months now, and I decided it was time that I put together a categorized list of all my posts. I'm going to try to do this every few months.

Portraits:

Lola at Six Weeks	Lola Five Days Old

Lola at Christmas	I'm and Uncle!

Dayna's Photoshoot	Dayna's Photoshoot 2

Dayna's Photoshoot 3

Macros:

Macro Flower	The Bees

Macro Cacti	Macro Cacti Part 2

Panoramas:

Valley of the Sun Panorama

Winter Sunset Panorama

Three Panorama Pictures

Others:

Old School RPM	Circumhorizontal Arc

Mas Tequila	Camouflage Bug

Kitties!	Pretty Birds

Old School RPM

I post on the Nikon D5000 forum over at www.dpreview.com. You should check out that site for all your camera information needs. The forums as well as the camera reviews and comparisons are quite helpful... On to the post!

The reason I decided to post these images was because over at the forum they have weekly challenges. This week was ***Challenge #96 - VINTAGE *** 

I took these pictures in southwest Michigan a couple of years ago at a car show. The only tweeking that has been done is the change to black and white. I used Picasa for the black and white.

 

Nikon D60,  f/5.3, ISO200, 1/400sec at 35mm

  

 Nikon D60,  f/5.3, ISO280, 1/125sec at 38mm

Lola at Six Weeks

These pictures were taken a couple of weekends back. Lola had just turned 6 weeks a couple of days before this shoot. I didn't try to do anything special with this one, mostly just moved around and took candid shots. These are what I came up with. Enjoy.

 

Lola at Six Weeks

Lola at Christmas

Lola Five Days Old

I'm an Uncle!

Circumhorizontal Arc

After many failed attempts I finally managed to capture a Circumhorizontal Arc. These are somewhat rare to see if you don't know what your looking for. I recommend you check out the wiki for more information, but in short...These occur when the sun is at a specific angle in the sky, and there are also cirrus clouds present.

They are sometimes called fire rainbows. If you can see a circumhorizontal arc where you live all depends on your location and the latitude. Here in the United States it is a relatively common to happen several times each year. Actually seeing them is somewhat tricky. I have read that they are quite rare to see mid-latitude and northern Europe.

Yesterday I helped my dad cut some trees down on his property. As we were cleaning up afterwords I looked up at the sky and noticed the clouds resembled the clouds I had seen when witnessing a circumhorizontal arc. I rushed inside and grabbed my camera, just as I was coming back out I saw it. I ran down to an empty field so I could get a better view. So after a few attempts of trying to get one of these captured in one of my photos... success!