This weekend I decided to utilize my home studio (a flat surface against a white-ish wall and a lamp), to photograph flowers. I had bought a dozen or so gerberas of a beautiful red color the other day, thinking that the elegant shape of the petals were great subject matter. I really need to do [...]
Categories: Subject Studies
Tagged: Flowers, Macro, Still Life
Yesterday I decided it was time to practice some macro photography. Therefore I packed my camera gear including macro filters, and headed to the Huntington Library and Gardens here in Pasadena. You can see more photographs in the Flora in Macro gallery. As it turns out, my macro photography skills do need quite a bit [...]
Categories: Locations
Back to traveling! In September I went home to the Netherlands for about two weeks; the first time I had taken my camera to Europe. I was excited for multiple obvious reasons, but also because fall had begun and trees started to have amazing colors. The garden in Oirschot turned out to be a great [...]
Categories: Locations
Tagged: Architecture, Europe, Flowers, Nature
Next up was Mono Lake. We managed to plan this visit towards the end of the day, so the light conditions were fairly good. Ideally I would have gone there a little bit later and used my tripod, but this did just fine for my first attempt at Mono Lake. I was quite lucky that [...]
Categories: Locations
Tagged: Flowers, Nature, Rocks, Sierra Nevada, Water, Yosemite