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Bad Blogger…Bad!

Matt — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:17:31 +0000

What a bad blogger and host I have been. How could I not have posted anything during the entire month of October? It’s not like there isn’t anything going on in October what with Halloween, harvest parties, the changing colors of Fall. I gotta do better than this. So for my first post in November I give you “Boots and Reflections”.

Sunflowers

Matt — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:03:00 +0000

We planted a garden this year. Nothing special, just some tomato plants, cucumbers, eggplants and failed spinach and lettuce. It’s a small garden of 2 raised beds which are partially shaded most of the day (hence the failed lettuce and spinach) but it’s the only space we have to plant. The tomatoes have pretty much taken over the garden at this point and we have a mega load of red and yellow cherry tomatoes. The cucumbers are doing better than last year (we’ve harvested 3 so far with many more developing on the vine) and I can’t see the eggplants right now as the tomatoes have overgrown their baskets and engulfed them. We didn’t plant any sunflowers this year but apparently we didn’t need to as what we planted last year laid seed and we ended up with two sunflowers in the middle of the garden. Here are a few shots I took the other night. More can be seen on my Flickr site.

Independence Day Fireworks

Matt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:44:46 +0000

Took the camera out to experiment shooting fireworks. I’ve never shot fireworks before so I was curious how it would all turn out. Below are a few of the better shots. I used a 5D Mark II on a tripod with remote cable release. I shot these at ISO 100, bulb mode, manual focus, f/16. When I heard the canon go off I would activate the shutter, wait until I saw a good burst of firework and then close the shutter. It took a bit of practice to get the timing down just right. Leave the shutter open too long and you end up with too much streaking and not enough definition, close the shutter too soon and you don’t get the full explosion. The tripod and cable release are a must for these kinds of shots. If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them. Thanks for looking.