13 posts tagged “macro”

do you see me on the bottom right petal?  that was just a bonus, what a pretty flower!  I had such a good day today, I didn't need to crop hardly any of the shots and only deleted a dozen or so out of 75.  Oh gosh Nikon users, if you don't have a 105mm Nikkor micro (macro) 1:2.8 you gotta get one!  I can practically touch the flowers when I am shooting them. 

Brett Favre is a douche!  I am proudly wearing my "We will never forget you Brent" tee shirt today.  He needs a therapist. 

Here is a shot of my mystery plant today...I took the camera to the nursery and they thought it might be a variety of Aster.
Ok the weather is beautiful, I've accomplished a lot today...updated facebook, twitter, Vox, took pictures, downloaded pictures, uploading currently to flickr...and I need to get outside.  Times a wastin!

any ideas?  hg, I googled icelandic poppies and found nothing that looks like this.  i'm about to go knock on the door and ask them:  whatcha growing here?

I got some good shots of my potentilla with drops on the petals, but the only thing refracting was the sun.

or should I call it Pollen Tuesday?
best viewed large, sorry

Hey Lydia...got the 105 back!!

woot woot!

I was going to enter this shot in photoquest this week, but I procrastinated myself out of it.  So above is my blue shot! 

I am already tired of shooting dahlias, the ones I bought at home depot are starting to look all the same once I download them.  But here are a few anyway.
Hey, do you remember how long I procrastinated and how much I bitched about all those tulip bulbs I had to plant? 
Well, it was worth it! 

I don't remember even falling asleep, last time I looked at the clock it was 2 am exactly.  I tripped out of bed a few times with charley horses in my calves to beat the band, and a few trips to tinkle.  I got up at 7:10 and felt like I'd been up all night, not rested at all.

When I don't sleep well, I get pissed off at:
DH sleeping soundly
DH snoring
DH obviously slept well cus he's happy this am
Anyone who slept last night
Morning.
Rain


I just want to go back to bed, I should just give myself permission.  I promised to come into work today, to close the month, but I can do it on Monday, or even Tuesday, or even possibly Wednesday morning next week.  They don't really need me in there, they want me, well DH wants me to bring his phone charger, that's why he wants me to come in.

continuation an hour later:  Well, I guess it is time to do laundry as DH brought his basket to the laundry room and so far it is 4 loads.  haha!    I decided it was too cold to shower today, which actually got me out of my jammies quicker than if I'd been sitting here all along.  Getting ready to go out when it is 50 foggy and raining is not motivated.  I'm still tempted to go back to bed but I will probably be a good wife and take his charger in, pick up the deposit, and come back home and continue on with the laundry.  I just don't even want to get out of the car to go into the office, the rain is nailling the ground sideways, it is the kind of weather that you want to run in from point a to point b and I can't run. 

I think I am going to go on a cream city photo-meetup this weekend.  DH is golfing with the mens club, and the get together is from sunrise till late at night.  Most of the educational activities are going on in the late morning and early afternoon.  cream city photo day  Do you think it will be safe to go alone?  There are about 100 people scheduled to show up and over a thousand belong to the cream city flickr page...I would be so there if I could drag DH along.  Maybe he will change his mind about golfing when I show him the link. 

Our river is flooded again.  I am tempted to take pictures through the windows, and I may still.  The trees are just budding so you can still see it pretty good out back.  It is flooded for as far as I can see, and it looks like a huge lake with tiny little islands on it.  The view is pretty spectacular, but I am not sure it would make a good photograph because it is so fenced with tree branches, and you kind of have to know what it usually looks like to know it is different.  Last night I went out to get ice cream, and the water was almost up to the road again.  We aren't supposed to get a lot of rain today, I hope they are right because just another inch or so and we are back to last years 22 mile detour to get to town. 

And dopey.  I always think the worst.  I need to stop overreacting to stuff.  It isn't healthy for me!  Especially when it is not affecting me directly.  I was so upset about the lack of a birthday card from DH's mom, and it was so much wasted energy, because she did mail it, she mailed it by the 18th which should have been plenty of time for it to get here, but it was held up by USPS. 

The real question is why do I let things affect me so much?  I should just learn to let things roll off my shoulders better.  Some things do, others, especially when I see that it causes any kind of emotional pain for DH, well, that is when it is hard for me to control both my anger and my mouth.  And I do it all the time, over-react.  Oh well.

I am down to practically nothing in the freezer except the beef we bought last month, it is time to make a major grocery trip.  Ugh.  Why do I hate grocery shopping so much?  update:  Jo just called, we are going out for dinner tonight...I can procrastinate shopping for one more day!

My new laptop's monitor flashes and rolls all the time, except when I have it packaged up to take it in for service.  Then nothing happens.  There must be something loose inside here, but I've never taken a laptop apart, I've got a feeling if I did I would end up with a pile of spare parts that should be inside, and a computer that doesn't work.  So I'll put up with the flashy rollies until it does it nonstop, then take it in for service.

The sun is out today.  But the trees are doing the hoola dance, not a good day for close-ups. 

47 degrees in Big Bend. 

Painting my kitchen blue was such a good idea.  I've got the perfect backdrop.  There is a short cabinet where we keep phone books, and the top of it is just at the chair rail.  Now there isn't much empty space on any of my walls, as I am one of those people who uses the walls as canvas.  But I have the perfect amount of space for photographing flowers!  Well, unplanted flowers that is. 

It is supposed to snow all day today, and it isn't supposed to stick because the temperatures are above freezing, but just barely.  Of course it is snowing.  I just planted.  The rain we had yesterday really greened things up around here.  This is my favorite time of year to look out our picture windows at the river, it is green, but the trees are only budding.  Once they leaf, I won't be able to see the river and marsh behind my house. 

We went back to Home Depot on Sunday, and here is my booty, just waiting to be planted.  I'm going to be a busy girl tomorrow, when the temperature is supposed to hit 67.  Wisconsin weather is so unpredictable.  And if you don't like it, stick around, it will change.

I've got another tooth problem.  I cannot believe how often I have issues with my teeth.  This one is totally my fault though.  Two words:  popcorn kernels.  My molar looks like it had an earthquake.  I know this because I stuck a little mirror in my mouth to see why it hurt so dang much.  I have a feeling this isn't going to be easy to fix, the crack is below the gum line. 

Here is a close up shot of one of the pink daisy-type plants I got yesterday.  I bought both this color pink, and orange. 

I just ran out of things to say, so I'll just share some pictures. 

But do they mean 3 cubes the day I brought it home?  Or do they mean 3 cubes a week after I brought it home?  I've never tried growing orchids before.  Wish me luck!  The macros look like it could eat me.  Just missing teeth! 

It was gray out when I took this picture above...but I still love the bokeh.