In the botanical gardens were these large white flowers, the petals of which were like cloth. Just after I took the first shot, one of the petals flipped over, hiding the yellow centre as if it was camera shy.
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Category Archives: Photography
Del Mar Surfers
I’ve uploaded the first of the photos from last weekend’s trip to the San Diego area. We were staying in a hotel in Del Mar, and on one of our walks along the beach I managed to capture some surfers. All done hand-held with the 300mm lens, and even then too far out to be useful anywhere but on the web.
With some cropping though I think a few came out well. Check them out in my Flickr photostream.
Revealed
From a walk around the San Francisco Botanical Gardens (in Golden Gate Park). You can see more photos from that walk in my Flickr stream.
Older Photos Uploaded to Flickr
Somebody asked me for the original file from one of the photos I took in Maui last year (one from Wailea Beach) the other day. While getting that from by archives I noticed that there were a lot more photos I hadn’t uploaded into Flickr.
To remedy that, I have uploaded a selection of photos from my trips to Cancun, Mexico and Maui last year. I will probably be uploading more over the next few days. Then I can get to the ones from San Diego last weekend and Golden Gate Park a few weeks back.
The iguana in the photo is from the Mayan ruins at Tulum, near Cancun, in Mexico.
Amusing, but sad
Take a look at the photo and see if you can tell what type of computer is being used there to create a cool photo book at Yophoto. It is clearly a Mac, although they have airbrushed out the Apple logo. Why would anybody do that?
Simple, the online user guide for the software that you must download and install before you can create one of these photo books says this:
Please note that unfortunately the software will not work on an Apple Macintosh.
So, the Mac was cool enough to use in their home page photo, but not actually cool enough for them to support with their software. And what is with the software anyway? Why is this not a web service that I upload my photos to, or something built on top of another photo site like Qoop? Shame because the books look like they’d have made nice gifts.
Comic Book Celina
An example of the Comic Art Effect from macmerc.com. Here a photo of Celina was processed using a sequence of effects in Photoshop to produce something resembling a comic book image.
It is a relatively simple thing to do, though I would recommend perhaps writing the steps down (or printing them out) first unless you have a large enough screen to have the browser, the image and Photoshop’s toolbars all visible at once.
Butterfly & Thistle
A butterfly hovers, wings beating fast, over a thistle flower on Angel Island. Taken a couple of weekends back, during our hike around the perimeter road, this butterfly was quite happy for me to get relatively close with the camera while it went from flower to flower.
Angel Island is where I took my favourite thistle flower photo too. Seems to be a good place for thistles.
Unexpected Lunch Guest
This little scrub jay stopped by while we were eating our Boudin’s Bakery box lunches on Angel Island.
At first he stayed in the top of a nearby tree, then he got a little braver and came down to sit on the edge of a log next to our picnic table. At first he was unsure of the camera’s shutter sound (the 20D is quite loud), but he got used to it pretty fast.
Later he came even closer to collect crumbs from within a few feet of where we were sitting.
Updated: Changed blue jay to scrub jay following bloodnok‘s comment pointing out that this is a scrub jay and not a blue jay.
Tree Canyon
Almost an alien landscape, or perhaps a view over the top of a rocky canyon, but not (unless you’re the size of an ant). Instead, a close up and low angle shot over a weathered log, sitting alongside the perimeter road trail on Angel Island. It was alongside the picnic bench where we ate our lunch; a box lunch from Boudin’s Bakery.
Sandals on a Beach
Sorry for the lack of updates. I was on vacation for a week (in Orlando) and without any connection to the internet, not that I’d have had any time to use it even if it had been there. This week I have been catching up and getting ready for a two day meeting tomorrow and Friday. Busy, busy, busy.
This shot was actually taken at Huntington Beach in California – our trip to Orlando started with a brief visit to LA. I will get some Orlando photos up over the holiday weekend hopefully.