Day 15 - Slow Day

Today was a slow day for photography. Here's a picture of part of a piece of driftwood in our garden. It has lots of little plants artfully arranged around it.

Day 14 - Evan and the Screen Door

I was shooting in the garden (again!) when Evan came to the screen door. I thought the effect of his face through the screen was pretty cool, so I took a picture.

Here are some mangos across the canal from us.


And here is a flower on our banana tree, which is just beginning to open. It is about two feet long, and those petals, or whatever they are, are huge as well.

Day 13 - The Garden At Dusk

So, there seems to be a garden theme so far in this blog, but I promise this won't last forever. Tonight at least I took my nifty 50mm lens off the camera, even though it is super fast and great in low light, and swapped for it my 55-250mm IS lens, the poor woman's zoom. I had forgotten what a big difference the IS makes, I was handholding at shutter speeds where I usually get blurry photos. So thanks again, Canon, for taking my money. I hope you're enjoying it.

I wish I knew the names of everything in the garden, I have no idea to call the little spiral above. It's a new leaf on some sort of flowerless plant we seem to have several of, scattered in pots around the garden. The potted plants are the ones who really seem to suffer from our haphazard watering, because they have no hope of sucking up some groundwater. Still, this one's doing well enough to bring out a few new leaves.

I think the next picture is a kind of Bird of Paradise, but I'm not sure.


While I was out, a huge black bee-like insect started gathering nectar from our white flowering tree. He was hopping pretty quickly from bud to bud, but I did get a couple shots, thanks to the zoom I was using. Check out the furry legs, I do think it is something like a bee. I wouldn't want to get stung by one of those! It was easily 2 inches in length.





That's all for today. See you tomorrow!

Day 12 - Night in the Garden

Evan and I accidentally fell asleep this afternoon and slept until it was dark, so I went out into the garden at night to find some inspiration. This plant is on our porch in several iterations. I believe it is always supposed to be green, but we are no good at watering, so this particular stalk is brown.

And here is a panorama Evan shot last night on our walk that I stitched together and edited tonight. Too bad the horizon isn't even, but otherwise it shows the amazing sunset pretty well.

Day 11 - Sunsets

I finally got Evan to come watch the sunset with me over the bridge tonight. It was pretty spectacular. I'm still shooting raw, so I'm trying to limit the number of shots I take a little more than in the past. Still, get me in front of a sunset like this and I'm clicking away like a pair of castanets.

Day 9 - Evan is a Dork

Shortly after we moved to Thailand, Evan bought this miniature helicopter (1500 baht, about $50), which he then proceeded to fly every day for about a month, while we were living in one room together. Yes, he flew it indoors. And it's a little noisy.

I shot this with the Lensbaby wide open, at f/2.