October 4, 2016 I got a new camera a couple weeks ago, but I seem to be having a hard time getting out to give it a workout. So yesterday I made the drive to Tacoma to Point Defiance Park to explore the gardens there. They have a duck pond, a dahlia garden, a rose…
This year I had the opportunity to visit two tulip farms. One in Oregon – the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn, Or, and the Roosengaard Tulip Farm in Mt. Vernon, Wa. Both had excellent displays. The flowers seemed to be out about 2 weeks earlier than usual due to our very mild winter/spring and…
When the Olympia Camera Club took a fall field trip to the Staircase Rapids part of the Olympic National Park, I figured there wouldn’t be many landscape type views within the forest, so I took my Macro lens and focused on some of the smaller details along the trail. There was lots of moss, mushrooms…
The Olympia Camera Club takes a field trip each month. When winter comes, it’s a bit difficult to take trips that involve outside photography, so this month we took a trip to Seattle to the Butterfly House at the Seattle Science Center. Chasing butterflies around the hothouse wasn’t too difficult as there were plenty just…
Not much I can say about these. I mounted the Nikon 105mm f/2.8 and went out to the backyard in search of flowers It was the first time I’ve mounted this macro lens on the Nikon D800E and I was very pleased with the results.
I haven’t used the Nikon 200-400mm f/4 since February when I shot Snowy Owls so I decided to take it on a walk to McLane Nature Trail to look for ducks. As it turned out, there weren’t many ducks and the few Wood Ducks I did see had lost all their color since it was…
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