Spiders

I found a plethora of spiders last night.  These shots aren't the clearest as I was forced to hold the camera in odd positions to get the shots.  However, I think you will enjoy them.  That is... if you like spiders:

 

If this one had been a bit sharper, it would have been a prize picture:

I liked the following because of the location of the web and the fact that this spider is fat from being in such a good location to catch prey - right below a light where the bugs fly at night!

 Cheers!

Christopher

The Ubiquitous Mouse

In this series of photographs I've captured some shots of the ubiquitous mouse - not the furry kind, the computer kind.  Years ago I stopped using the push-around variety of mouse as my primary mouse because of CTS symptoms.  I switched to the roller-ball mouse and virtually eliminated the CTS symptoms.  At any rate, here are some hopefully interesting images of ...the mouse (or parts of it any way) :

 In this first one, I inverted the colors for an interesting result:

Here's the pre-inverted picture:

Now for some interesting shots of the mouse ball itself:

An inverted picture of the same:

And finally, a black and white perspective:

Have a great day!

Christopher.

Pine Cones and Giraffes

I love nature.  Nature photography has long been one of my undeclared hobbies.  One of my only regrets about switching from the real Christmas trees to the artificial ones is that I no longer get to smell the pine tree scent in the house.  One of the many things about the real trees I don't miss is all of the pine sap on the Christmas presents - ugh!  I remember one year the sap got all over the presents and hundreds of baby spiders infesting the tree got stuck in the sap.  Of course you can buy the pine scent in a can these days...but there's nothing like the real thing.  Once again in this picture - more black and white.  I think it brings out the texture in a unique way.

This next photo is a black and white of a wooden giraffe statuette that I have on my desk.  I have received more positive comments about this item than anything else in my office:

Inaugural post

Hello.  This is the inaugural post on my new photoblog.  This is me above in my office standing by one of my favorite paintings.

I'm experimenting with the black and white settings on my new camera and thought this was an interesting shot of a lamp with a fruit design on it.  I'm using a Kodak Easyshare M577 - a great little camera for under $100.

It was soooo cold this morning!  However, it did give me an opportunity to take a few shots of the ice crystals that formed on my car:

Here's the view from my office window.  I particularly like the extended exposure affect of the tail-lights on the cars in this photo:

I experimented with the panoramic feature on my new camera and came out with the following picture of the same scene.  It's goofy, but cool at the same time:

I intended for this first post to be a bit more introspective than it has been.  One thing I am discovering about photography is that it helps me slow down and actually observe things that I normally take for granted, like the lock on my filing cabinet for instance.  I've never really paid much attention to it, but now I've taken a few minutes just to think about it and photograph it.  Taking time to actually enjoy what was formerly just a piece of office furniture...there's something to this photography thing.

Here's looking forward to a great year of posting my photos on this blog.

Enjoy!


Christopher.