Bee and Lavender

Spider

Yet another Vivitar macro.

Sun Goddesses

Two more Vivitar macros taken while lying on the ground.

Blue Flame

Another macro with the Vivitar. I used to scoff when I read about people talking about the quality of colors with certain lenses, but I find that the Vivitar seems to really enhance the blues. This is not very scientific. Maybe I should do a comparison.

Ready to Sail, Regular and Inverted

50 mm macro. The second version was a mistake I made in Elements. I pressed command i to get information on the exposure, and forgot that this inverts the color scheme instead. I liked the blue result!

Lavender Buzz

50mm Macro

Pink Wildflower

50mm 1.2

Single Prop

Orange Tulip

Peacock Triptic

I thought these three attempts to capture a closeup of a peacock who visited us looking for handouts at the zoo made a humorous triptic. The conditions were low light, hence the two blurred shots on either side. The middle shot was with a fill flash, but the depth of field left the beak out of focus.

Three Blues

Moon and Evening Star

O'Keeffeish Flower

Well it's either an O'Keeffeish Flower, or O'Keeffes are Flowerish. I didn't quite nail the focus on the close part of the cone. Oh well.

Dropped Four

Taken with Vivitar lens version 3. Viewed close up you can see that there is some motion artifact. It is hard to hold this lens steady!

Double Pane Self Portrait

Spring Maple Silhouette

Yellow Flowerscapes

Two similar shots taken with the Vivitar version 3 lens at different apertures.

White Blossoms

Red Shift

I shifted the Red, Green and Blue levels in Elements to get the flame like effect in this photo. Although I was hoping for more depth of field and sharpness in this shot initially, the narrower depth of field seemed to add to the luminosity of the flower which seemed to just be floating in space. I want to try again with a tripod, a small aperture, and long exposure, but in the meantime I am pleasantly surprised with this result.

sunny lens