This is your weekly reminder that this week’s theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is NATURE!
Get in your car and visit your favorite park or river or lake or stream or ocean or maybe your backyard. Meet back up with Mother Nature.
Happy photo harvesting!
A few weeks back I took what I thought might be one of the more intriguing pages in THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Page 19.
How do you determine when is the “right now” from the page? What I did was randomly pick a day and a time and set a timer on my phone. On that day I took off driving. Then when my timer went off I gave myself a few minutes to pull over. Then I used the lens that was on the camera. A medium length and range zoom lens. Then I gave myself a few minutes to take a photo. That was how I defined right now.
Here are a few other pictures I took, but won’t end up taped into the physical manifestation of THE PHOTO JOURNAL:
Interestingly enough, during this little photo subject, due to the limitations I placed upon myself, a picture for Page 50-51 was taken. A picture of one of our slithery friends.
This was going to be one of the hardest entries in THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT for me to accomplish. Mostly because, it is a huge time commitment. Luckily, I recently did the thing that Page 100 asks you to do, sorta. Here is Page 110.
This picture was taken on the banks of the Missouri River in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Jesse and I left Boone at 4:15 AM and drove down there to see the Total Solar Eclipse. We met my cousin Sarah and her husband Tim and my Uncle Mike and Cousin Adam and his kid Florence there and prepare for one of nature’s rarest and most awesome spectacles.
Unfortunately for us, it poured rain right up to the totality. It stopped raining, but there was still nearly 100% cloud cover during the totality. Despite not being able to physically see the sun pass behind the moon, I wouldn’t have changed anything from that day.
We still got to experience the darkness of the totality. We still got to experience the 10 degree temperature drop of the totality. We still got to experience the effect the totality had on the animals in the area. We got to experience the totality with some awesome people.
The picture that will be physically adhered into THE PHOTO JOURNAL was taken during the totality. Something that wasn’t ever mentioned in my solar eclipse research is the ring of light that goes around the horizon. That was perhaps my favorite part of the eclipse.
There will be more eclipse pictures at some point.
The next time we visit THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT, we will probably hit up Page 119.
I recently picked up a new set of toys: Extension Tubes.
I don’t have a picture of the tubes themselves, but I do have a collection of pictures from the from the first test run. Have a look:
I don’t have a picture of the extension tubes, but if you are wondering what it is they do here is a brief explanation.
Extension tubes sit between the rear of the lens and the body of the camera. What they do is reduce the minimum focusing distance of the lens, virtually making any lens a macro lens. Well, any lens with which they are compatible. Which isn’t every lens, by any stretch of the imagination. It is a relatively inexpensive way to play with macro photography without dropping a several Franklins.
It can also be used to turn a macro lens into a super macro lens.
Most of the pictures were taken with a lens that isn’t macro. The flower pictures were taken with a lens that was already macro.
The negative of extension tubes is you lose light (sometimes up to 3 stops) and they severely limit the focal range of your lens. But they sure are fun!
For example, the frog in the frog picture is about the size of a quarter. The pansies are also a little bit bigger than a quarter. More like a 50 cent piece. I’m sure these fun new toys will come in handy in about… oh 4 more weeks! If I was psychic.
The images in the folder 10-25-07 has more Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad pictures, leaf pictures, and then kind of a surprise picture at the end:
Next week’s folder includes a display of pure strength and power and some pretty sweet Halloween photos!
I recently made a trip to Ledges where I knocked out Page 65 for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT:
I took a few more pictures. Here are a few I like, but won’t be taped into the physical photo journal:
We’ll probably take on Page 41 next time we visit THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT.
There is quite the mixture of nature and Iowa State football pictures in the folder called 10-20-07B:
There are many more pictures of the Iowa State-Oklahoma game from 2007. You can see them by clicking on the link below:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve a railroad. A very scenic railroad.
The pictures in the folder 10-20-07 were taken at Brookside Park:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve Iowa State football.
Some pictures of the most beautiful campus in the world in the folder called 10-19-07:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane might involve more Iowa State football!
These pictures didn’t have what it takes to make the cut for the YELLOW theme of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
If only these pictures believed in themselves, no telling what they might be able to accomplish!
