2012-04-30

A few pictures of my kids for today... No description required I think :)

2012-04-25

Friends and family having a spring walk on my father's wood lot, behind my house...

The challenge here is taking a nice picture even though everything is still bare... I find it quite challenging this time of year (unless you do macros of new plants and tree buds, etc?)

The moon on the kids' play outhouse door (yes, they have a play outhouse, accompanying their playhouse built by their father-in-law)

2012-04-23

A wilting tulip petal - looking oddly enough like somebody's tongue :)

Tree bark than has seen better days, as seen in Green River, NB

With the arrival of Spring, welcome flies and bugs...

Among the first plants to get "spring back to life" in early Spring...

Even though it doesn't really look alive, these plants are busy growing and taking in  the Spring sunshine.

The home of wasps from last Summer: obviously a vacant home now.

A tree that has not bounced back to life for many Springs now - as seen on my father's wood lot behind my house.

2012-04-06

Today, I was able to borrow my father's 70 - 300mm lens (67mm diameter).  Quite a few notches above my standard 18 - 55mm lens. I had a lot of fun with it tonight!

The extra "zoom power" allowed me to get much closer to the moon and create some interesting shots.

As the moon was coming up behind clouds, there was an interesting "glow" that showed up.  I only have one or two shots of this before it disappeared.  Glad the exposure was just about right, I otherwise would of ruined these!

And here is the best full moon shot I've ever taken yet.  Would be nice to have a 700mm lens to try again, but the 300mm certainly made a huge difference compared to the 55mm lens I usually have.  In fact, I'd say it's not really useful to try unless you have at least 300mm in my opinion.