Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Free

Looking
35mm @ f/1.8, 1/500, ISO 400. LR5 Post, desaturation.

I feel I am constantly running one day behind, trying to catch back up. Perhaps if I was not such a "night owl," I would actually post my Photo of the Day on the day it belongs to.

No judgments!

Today was spent in the company of lovely friends, both at home and out on the Makiki Valley Loop Trail(s), where the above picture was captured. I love the light falling through the canopy of the forest in the background, with the last, undamaged bloom fighting for its view.

The evening was spent catching up with an old friend, making roast beef, talking about life, and just enjoying life for what it is.

I may have been having a slight bit too much fun with my photos, though in some respects, that does indicate a successful attempt at enjoying life.

Tomorr—er, later today, I must review and finalize some important school work.

Even over the break, the student's duty never ceases.

After this little bout of schoolwork hanging around, I'll be 100% freed to enjoy the rest of my break without anything hanging over my head, as it were.

That's about as much as one can wish for these days: not have anything hanging over one's head.

Light. Free. 

Happy.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Extension

Two
Nikkor 50mm @ f/2.2, 1/80, ISO 100, 7mm extension tube
Extension tubes. That's a whole different kind of fun.

Getting really close up. Physically.

Clipped a few flowers down on the street near our house to test them out. Got two types of gardenia, and some type of pink flowers (pictured above).

I really like the flowing abstract lines on this shot, like the space between the two flowers is a curved pathway.

Pathway to where?

Got a lot more practicing and experimenting to do with the extension tubes. I was using the 50mm 1.8G, but I'm curious to see how the other lenses work with the tubes. We shall see...

Hit up the driving range this evening for the second time this week! Good fun, though not really a photo op.

Speaking of photo ops, tomorrow I will be hiking around the intertwining trails atop Tantalus, so some forested goodness is sure to come.