Some cows…again. I liked the emotion and action. The one on top of the hill makes me smile with the bird on his head. 🙂
I used my Samsung NX300, 45mm lens, 1250s, f/5.6, ISO 200. Large crop. They were far away and I had no zoom.
As always, I had great fun this year with the NWG’s!! 😀
Blue
I just love the blue sky and the abstract clouds. So beautiful. I try to capture it but it is more beautiful in person. Shot with an Olympus TG-4. I just boost the contrast a bit. The settings were iso100, 16.48mm focal length, f4.7 and 1/125sec.
This is an old Kodak Brownie. My brother-in-law flips houses and he found this old camera in one of the houses. I thought it would be appropriate to take a photo of an old camera to commemorate the last week of this year’s NWG blog. It’s been another fun year!
My settings were ISO 200, f/7.1, 1/13 second at 55mm (55-135mm). I applied PSE’s watercolor and poster filters, added a colored texture fill layer for the background and rounded the corners.
Was walking around the yard and saw several large mushrooms. This is the top of one of them. Never really noticed the interesting patterns on these mushrooms before. Looks like a graboid’s mouth from the movie “Tremors.”
My settings were ISO 200, 1/40 sec, f/7.1 at 300mm (70-300mm). Â I applied a fill layer to make the background all black using PS Elements. Then applied Topaz Adjust Simple Pop filter and saturated the colors a little.
Ray and I went to Fisherman’s Landing in Grant-Valkaria to try a little fishing. We didn’t catch anything but had a nice afternoon talking with locals and walking around this beautiful park on the river. I didn’t have a camera with me so I used my Nexus 5 for this shot.
I cloned out some ugly modern power units and used ON1 Effects 10, Photomorphis Colorific Texturizer to give it a dreamy, vintage feel.
Case Moth Cocoon
Would love to see the moth that eventually comes out of this cocoon. You see what it will possibly look like here CaseMoth
Walked around the yard on a cloudy, drizzly day. Love doing that. Never know what you will find. I did come across a number assassin bugs. Those are creepy insects but decided to post this cocoon instead.
Shot with my NikonD300s with 105mm lens, ISO800, f3.2, 1/200sec. Used Topaz Detail to bring out the detail in the cocoon and Topaz DeNoise to take out the nose in the background.
Liken some Lichen
Yes we had a NWG outing. So enjoy getting together with these two talented women. I received a new camera for Christmas (Olympus TG-4) so the outing was a perfect time to play with it. Robin showed me how to use the microscope setting. As you can see I was having fun getting up close and personal. Boosted the colors using Topaz Adjust Spicify. The internal stacking within the camera helped sharpen the image. My settings were 1/60sec, f3.2 ISO800, and focal length 5.5mm.
As Judy mentioned, the NWG’s walked through Erna Nixon Park, a magical place with it’s tree lined boardwalk. I love forests and this is a tropical paradise with beautiful oaks, citrus and palms in a natural setting. Nature gone wild in the middle of Melbourne! 🙂
I used my 8mm Rokinon fisheye manually set on infinity focus, f/11, 1/25s, ISO 400. Used a touch of NIK HDR and NIK contrast adjustments.
The NWGs went to Erna Nixon Park over the holiday week. It had rained the day before and the Resurrection Fern was all over the large Oak trees in the Park. If you don’t know about Resurrection Fern, it’s a fern that looks all dried up and dead after a few days of no rain. Then once it rains, it shows up like this within a few hours. Thus, the name. Nature is amazing!
My settings were ISO 100, f/7.10, 1/6 sec, at 76mm (70-300mm). I selected the branch and the fern, inversed the selection and made the background B/w with PS Elements to make the branch and fern pop a little more.
Happy New Year!
Taken with my iPad of our Christmas tree with one of those paper glasses in front of the lens that turns the lights into snowmen shapes. It’s fun to turn your head back and forth and it looks like they are dancing 🙂 Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!
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