November Baetis

The images below were taken today on Silver Creek. Pretty warm at the Creek when I was there; about 44 degrees but windy. The baetis came off anyway and there were fish up on them. This particular baetis was about a size #18. For all of you wanting one more day on the Nature Conservancy section, this is the final week of the season. Everything on Silver Creek upstream of the Highway 20 Bridge will be closed starting December 1st. 

I used the Nikon Micro 105 with an extension tube for these images.  Between 12:15 and about 1:30 there were a lot of baetis.

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The fish were far more skittish today and did not let me get very close.  I did manage to get a couple of frames just after a take or two.

Fall Aspen Leaf

Backlit Fallen Aspen Leaf & Frost

Nikon D200 & Nikon 105 Micro Lens

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Budding Maple Leaf & Really Right Stuff Macro Rail

Budding Maple Leaf

Here's an image from my front yard.  I shot directly into the light with the Nikon 105 2.8 and extension tubes.  Taken on a tripod with a Really Right Stuff macro rail.  The macro rail lets me fine tune the focus without having to move the tripod which makes close-up/macro photography much easier.  You can even stack two macro rails to fine tune the left and right axis in addition to the fore and aft...  Cool stuff but much harder with moving subjects like mayflies.

A Rose Study

Rose Petals.  Black & White

Rose Study 1

Rose Study 2

Rose Study 3

Rose Study 4

Rose Study 5

 

All of the above images taken in Santa Barbara, CA with the Nikon 105 2.8 lens.

Spring Flowers

The above crocus showed itself in my garden a few days ago.

 

 

Images taken with the Nikon D200 and the Nikon 105 2.8 lens. 

Wild Iris 2

 

OK, one more wild iris... and I had never given much thought to this image either.  I used dodge and burn, increased the black point and added a little vibrancy.  I edited this one as well in Aperture 3.  I am reviewing, editing and resizing hundreds of images I have yet to give much consideration to.  I am also going through my entire collection and keywording many images so that it is relatively painless to find them at some later point in time.

Wild Iris

 

I have been revisiting many of my images to resize them for this site.  It's a long and tedious process, and much like data entry, is best done or rather more sanely accomplished with a wee bit of red wine.  Sometimes, as is the case above, I find an image I paricularly like and re-edit it.  The top picture has been in my Flowers gallery for some time but it just received a new "face."  After finishing the top image, the next image that popped up was one I had ignored.  It's the second image on this post.  It never really "popped" to me until I started working on it.  Both images were taken at Silver Creek last June.  They are relatively long exposures--trying to get the saturated look--1/2 second at f11.  It was almost dusk.  It was around 9:30 PM when I took these images...  Taken on a tripod using a Nikon 105 2.8 lens.  I used Aperture 3 for all of my editing on these two shots.