Month: August 2011

Water Bubbles

Bubbles and coloured backgrounds. I like the looks of the patterns within the bubbles. It’s amazing how perfect the sphere is when a bubble is sitting on water. I will not be publishing any more pictures for a week, as we are going camping. Hope to take some pictures while we are away. Settings: 1/200, f/5.6, […]

Lily with water drop

I really enjoy the lilies in our yard. This is one our daughter gave me. When it first started, there were only about 1 to 3 blooms on it. Now there are well over 30. They are almost out of season, so I thought I should try getting a water drop with the lily. I’ve tried […]

More Water Drops

I hadn’t tried using a background of wrapping paper before … this was one of my first attempts. I often wondered how people got the coloured variety in their picture, so was glad to learn how to do this. I found that I had to change the aperture setting depending on how bright the wrapping […]

Water Drops

I decided to try my hand at water drops again, as I won’t have much time once I’m back at work. For this shot I stuck a flower to the white back drop and bounced my flash off of it. This is what put the reflection of the flower into the water drop. I have […]

Welcome!

I’m new at blogging, and still fairly new at photography, which is an exciting challenge and hobby for me. God has given us so much to look at and enjoy, and photography allows us to capture some of this in photos. I thought I could use this to record some of my journey as I […]