Photography – Page 152 – Daffodil Hill Photography

Back To Basics

The Canon PowerShot S3is has been a faithful companion in my journey through the lens. I recently purchased a Canon PowerShot Sx260 HS that was quickly becoming my main weapon of choice in this journey.

Several weeks a go a good friend told me she was letting her daughter use her Canon SX10 this summer. I told her she could us the Sx260 HS since she likes journeying through the lens as much as I. Actually a little more than I do I belive and knew NOT having a camera was, well a cruel but noble sacrifice.

So as my SX260 heads out and about to parts unknown I turn back to my S3is and a used G3 I picked up a few weeks back. Here a few I took recently. Enjoy!

The head lights of a Classic Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible of unknown age.

A gardner snake in our back yard. Notice the head “puffed out” to imitate the triangle shape head of a poisonous snake.

The Monarch Butterfly

My first recollection of seeing a butterfly was of the Monarch Butterfly. As I prepare The Brides Minolta X-370 and load up my PowerShot S3is in search of the best “Super Moon” picture I can find I leave you with two of a Monarch Butterfly. I took these, I believe, back in 07 or 08. Enjoy!

B0002999 — A Monarch Butterfly doing a pretty good bat impression.

The Super Moon Is Coming

The Super Moon is coming! The Super Moon is coming! I honestly had not a clue there was such a thing, or that it was coming, till I read a facebook post saying it was coming. So after a search on the web I now know the moon is as much as fourteen percent bigger and thirty percent brighter than other full Moons of 2012.

In honor of the Super Moon I present to you a picture I took back in 07 or 08 with my Canon PowerShot S3is of said moon. Enjoy!

B0000065 — I took this with a PowerShot S3is.

Taking A Moment From My Break

I still have tons to do and the list seems to grow but I found some photos I took in 2007 and 2008 I want to share with you. Over the next several days or so I hope to post a half of a dozen or so of the first pictures I took with my Canon PowerShot S3is. Enjoy!

B0001741 — I took this moth or butterfly on our the tree The Bride calls Grandfather Apple Tree.

Taking A Moment

"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."
- Kozuko Okakura

"In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet."
- Albert Schweitzer

It Is Autumn Somewhere

This post was inspired by a fellow blogger in New Zealand (Bec @ http://cloudsofcolour.com/ ) who posted pictures of Autumn. I did not have a photo blog when it was Fall here so these photos are in honor of it being Fall somewhere. Enjoy!

Two From The Near Past

I bought a Vivitar Vivicam 8300 around six or seven years ago and thus started, or restarted I should say, my journey in photography. Here are two samples of some of those photos. Enjoy!

The Beautiful Bloom Of The Chicory Plant

The Chicory plant's roots are used as a substitute for coffee.

Poppies And A Stray Iris

The state has planted poppies and several other flowers at interstate exchanges. It reduces the area needing mowed and is very beautiful besides.

I took this picture with my new-to-me-auction-prize Canon G3. Need to learn how to use the thing.....

An into-the-sun shot of a poppy with my Canon G4.

My Twenty-Fifth Post

Since starting my journey in the photo blog sphere I have come to realize a few things about myself. One is I like to display my stuff for others to see. Simply having something an not sharing makes me feel less. Two is I am not that great of a photographer technically but in my life I have stopped doing what I wanted because of a lack of skill. This is not one of those things I will stop doing as long as I am able. Thirdly and lastly, for now any who, is I do not seem to be afraid to shoot in about any type of a atmospheric condition. Here are two pictures taken in the last several days. One a nice sunny day and the other overcast. Enjoy!