Olympus Sp-350 – Page 3 – Daffodil Hill Photography

Chicory And A Sweat Bee

By Comparison

I have posted several shot of the Daisy Fleabane and the pollinators that visit there. So yesterday I took several more shots of them and of the little Sweat Bees that drop by for a fill-up. As I was watching several fly around I thought I should take a picture tat gave you all an idea of their sizes. The first shot is of a Fleabane along side of my Wedding Band by comparison. The second is of one the Sweat Bees on a Fleabane so you can see their size by comparison.

Red, Ant, Green

Two Using PhotoEffects 8

I am having some computer problems and may not be able to post for a bit but wanted to post something till I get them resolved. I have backed up everything, I hope, to an external hard-drive and I plan to reinstall Windows 7 be the end of the coming weekend. I would not mess with it if my programs did not keep closing and Windows 7 would find a fix but a month of this fun is all I can stand.What does this mean to you? Nothing really but for me it means a lot less frustration and hopeful a more seamless post-shot editing process after reinstall is completed.

As I hope to move into portraits sometime this year I need good software, and a solid PC, that will help me reach my potential. Trying out freeware versions of some of the software out there seemed like a no-brainier. One of the things I was doing was testing the waters of several new-to-me software before the gremlins arrived. One such was the a freeware program from OnOne software called PerfectEffects 8. I want to Thank Steve @ daPonte Photography for taking his time to responded to my question about OnOne software and LightRoom 5 and their strengths and weaknesses. Till the next time here are two using PerfectEffects 8.(Click on pictures to enlarge them).

After. — I used my Olympus SP-350 to take this shots.

Greeting The Day

Clover

Wee Two

For reference the daisy Fleabane is as big around as the fingernail in my fore finger. So when I took this I did not know the black “dot” was anther bug on this capture. For your viewing [pleasure, Wee Two!

Heading To Bed

Those of you who follow this blog get to see a lot of Fleabane pictures posted here. I have only recently began to see these wonderful little pollination stations as anything other than a weed. In that space I found several types of Fleabane on our place.We have the Common or Philadelphia Fleabane as well as the Daisy Fleabane. Daisy Fleabane has done very well around the old Eagle Talon carcass in my yard this year. My discovering the awesomeness of these little plants is a recent thing as I mentioned earlier. As life heated up several years ago I retreated to nature to find space to deal with life and death. One of the things I noticed is that they start closing up around dusk and close up till morning. So here is a Fleabane heading to bed.

Two Of The Little Hoverfly

Hoverflies are obviously part of the fly family but also pollinators and apparently very good ones from what I have read. So today when I was able to catch about thirty-minutes of sunshine I was out and in search of something to photograph. When I spotted these two I spent sometime watching them and soon realize they do not scare away easily so shooting them was relativity easy. So here is two of the little Hoverfly.