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May 16
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An A for (macro) effort

Up at 4:15 AM this morning again, I headed for Stanley Park long before sunrise - only to find out the wind was blowing 5 or 10 km/h over Lost Lagoon. How ironic! Went I’m not waiting for the wind to pick up in order to fly my paraglider, I’m hoping for it to die down to do some macro photography.

I ended up in the rhododendron garden. These pictures are the result of multiple focus-bracketed exposures blended together for a small bit of extra depth of field. Mixed results. I need to work on tripod stability so that alignment is better and decrease the bracket range to avoid unnatural-looking images.

On the way back, I shot the herons of the previous post. They are actively building or rebuilding their nests.

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2009-05-16 17:07 • Posted in

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  • 1 - Marie says:

    « Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, and wow.
    Wow.

    :-) »

    Date of comment: 2009-05-16 20:44 •
  • 2 - Anonymous says:

    « Those macro-pictures are so beautiful it takes my breath away.
    Thank you, Marie, for expressing it masterfully ! ;-) »

    Date of comment: 2009-05-18 05:05 •
  • 3 - Vince says:

    « Ok, let’s not get carried away. They’re still technically weak. But I’ll get there! »

    Date of comment: 2009-05-18 10:10 •
  • 4 - Anonymous says:

    « We love your pictures precisely because they’re so full of imperfections, faults, defects and whatever other synonym you can think of. In fact, they’re awful, like you are. But what can we say, Marie ? We must be biased ! »

    Date of comment: 2009-05-18 11:22 •
  • 5 - Elo says:

    « Amazing! One could spend days nose in the grass to observe the tiny wonders of nature... »

    Date of comment: 2009-05-19 10:29 •
  • 5.1 - Vince answers:

    « Nose in the grass or by the eyepiece of a telescope (see following post), nature sure is wonderful... »

    Date of comment: 2009-05-19 10:58 •

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Apr 17

Decadence

Answering an email this morning about Tim Farrar’s FFDD, I found myself wondering where time flies. Gone are the days when I could afford to go stroll aimlessly around the Seawall at sunset, night after night, hunting for the one stunning sky that only HDR could render, and then going back home and spending hours at the computer processing and developing lovingly. Gone is my time to write when I feel like it, because I feel like it. I’m neglecting the blog and my creativity is at an imposed all time low. I miss the Little Cayman days when there was basically nothing else to do after work but go play with a friend’s pets, drink, or create - often all of the above. Everybody around me is happily blogging and engaged in a commenting ballet, reading right and left, networking. I can’t keep up. I’m not sure I even want to. It has all become so common, vulgar at times. Soon blogging is going to replace reality TV, feeding people’s morbid desire to peek into one another’s nightmares and dirty secrets. I don’t want to be there when that happens. Or is it too late?

 

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