Old Tech Revisited

I took the following shots with my Olympus SP-350. The camera has great potential but I love my PowerShot S3is so much I neglected the SP more than not.

I ask the property owner if I could take pictures of his wild Roses growing on the fence line out back. He told me they were old fashion Roses his wife had actually planted years ago. She has since passed he said so he just lets them grow.

I tool several pictures of the Roses and on the old burn barrel under the Roses as well. Enjoy!

A Picture and a Quote

“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” Contributed to Vincent Van Gogh

Before and After: Fun With Effects

Taking a Moment

I shot these from my folding chair, with my PowerShot S3, as I waited on the front porch for my ride to show up this morning. Enjoy!

A very young squirrel hanging outside his house.

Same little squirrel having what I suspect would be breakfast.

I was playing with depth of field on this one and thought the green background would make the hand rails contrasting colors “pop”.

My ride was running late so I watched the paint peel.

G3ing It

I recently acquired a Canon PowerShot G3 for a song. I had a lovely little Nikon CoolPix 4600 but half the manual functions stopped working. I gave it to my sister-in-law and it still makes a great every day point and shot.

But I like to dabble with manual controls so I turned to the G3 when I could not find another 4600. Here are a few pictures I took today on my way home from work. I am experimenting with macro photography taken with the zoom only. Here are a few attempts plus one. Enjoy!

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!