Day 20 - A Storm is Coming

Today at school and also this evening we had rain. When it rains in Thailand, it doesn't mess around. The wind picks up, it starts thundering and lightning, and suddenly it starts pouring. Buckets. Mouse is really afraid of storms, as the few we've had recently are the first in her short life. I took her outside, just to see it from the porch and she freaked out a little bit.

I took this picture right before the storm started, down a little alleyway at school. I decreased the clarity in Lightroom and evened out the exposure a little.

Day 19 - The Palm Tree Outside Our House

These are different views of the same tree in our front yard, It's really quite amazing, standing probable 25 feet tall, and not having any trunk at all. Instead, these fronds (is that the right word?) radiate from the base and eventually become palm leaves.

Day 18 - At the Computer

I've been spending the past few months coveting a dedicated macro lens, but I just can't justify the expense, given that my photography serves no practical purpose, and I haven't even put the tools at my disposal through their paces yet. Tonight, just to see if I could get it out of my system, I screwed on my 'macro close-up lens,' which isn't even a lens, it's more like a filter. It lets you focus closer, yes, but the focusing range gets much smaller and the DOF is practically non-existent. I was just reading this, and to a great extent I agree, but sometimes that just doesn't help.

Anyway, the 100mm f/2.8 is still in my (somewhat distant) future. Until then, I'll just photograph things from normal distances, or use my P&S, which has a pretty decent macro setting.

Thanks to Evan for being my hand model here!

Day 17 - Sunset

I took this over the fence into our neighbor's yard during sunset.

Later, I attached my super cheap fake fisheye lens to my camera and took a few shots of Mouse. Still waiting for the perfect shot where I get her nose dead center and no blurring. And yeah, the lens created that annoying circular vignette around her.

Day 16 - The Motorbike

I liked the radial symmetry of the wheel on our bike. Wish I had moved the watering can from behind it before I took the picture, though.

I know I'm a little behind on the posting . . . but I'm going to get completely up to date today. The important thing is when I took the photos, right?

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.