and what were you using the camera taped to another camera for? Your macro shots are great. I love that having a camera in you hand or pocket or in a tube makes you more observant in the first place.
delwyn--the top and bottom pictures were taken using my nikon D60 w/macro lens, through the viewfinder of an old rolleicord TLR camera. it's way fun, even if i do look a little silly! :-) click the link on the "apparatuses" bit and you'll find a good explanation of it.
sebrina--it is so much fun! and i think i'm getting better at seeing things during the moment as well, but i totally didn't see those drops of water yesterday and as for the little mirror reflections, it just looked totally different as i looked through my viewfinder..i didn't expect that you wouldn't be able to see that it was a little mirror...it got much more disembodied in the picture than it looked.
i need to get out my ttv "stuff" too and play around to capture something new.....I used it in january when we were in florida, but I haven't gotten it out here...hmmm, maybe the snow is the reason and we're getting more tomorrow....yikes !
Oh come now, we're not totally to blame for the GEC now, too, are we? I can't take all this guilt.
I was hoping Obama would make everyone forget our stupidity for a bit.
I think I need to try something with a cardboard toilet paper roll only because that sounds like fun. But I would have to decorate it with glitter for roaming around SF.
gorgeous shots. I loved the daffodil shots especially.
February 18, 2009 at 5:20 AM
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things are a little backwards, blurry and well, hazy on poppelvej today. i set out with cameras and lenses and TtV apparatuses (is that a word?) in hand, to have a think about the contract i received yesterday for my new job, while i enjoyed the sun on the fresh snow and the blue, blue sky. very soon, my feet carried me towards the scary new building in town that says, "skat" on it. and while "skat" is a term of endearment in danish, kind of like "honey," it also has another dreaded meaning. taxes. and the danish government does love its taxes. so i went to check out the tax implications of my new job, which actually aren't as bad as i feared. in fact, they're quite straightforward. the problem may be the work permit. according to the norwegian foreign ministry, it could take months. and i don't want to wait months. i want to start now! and the very nice girl at the embassy couldn't/wouldn't tell me anything either. i'm not from a problem country, am i?
or perhaps i am. let's face it, whether we like it or not, we're in the midst of GEC and it was caused by the mismanagers of the country on my passport. we should probably be blacklisted. i am in serious need of a different passport.
but enough about that. i just had to get it off my chest.
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what i wanted to write about today was how often it happens that when i look through my photos on the computer, i discover things that i didn't notice while i was taking the actual photo. things like these little bitty droplets of water beside this daffodil that i cruelly and intentionally set out in the snow for the sake of macro lens photographs yesterday (click to enlarge and see the droplets on the upper flower).
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or this bit of spider web or hair that's holding onto some snowflakes in this close-up of my twisty hazel tree:
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or the way these macros i took of a reflection in a little mirror look positively ghostly. through my viewfinder, they were something else entirely.
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and they were just reflections in this:[Image]i love the capacity of photography to enable me to see things anew, fresh and differently. it makes the world a bit brighter and twistier. and i like that. even in the face of work permits and taxes. and i didn't even feel too ridiculous walking around with one camera stuffed inside a long tube made of a box from a bottle of calvados that was taped with brown duct tape onto another camera. that didn't look funny at all. or if it did, no one said anything. not that i expected them to. it is denmark, after all.[Image]
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Close this window Jump to comment formand what were you using the camera taped to another camera for?
Your macro shots are great. I love that having a camera in you hand or pocket or in a tube makes you more observant in the first place.
February 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Yes. I notice that too! Things I hadn't seen until I am going trough the pictures on my computer. Fun!
February 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM
delwyn--the top and bottom pictures were taken using my nikon D60 w/macro lens, through the viewfinder of an old rolleicord TLR camera. it's way fun, even if i do look a little silly! :-) click the link on the "apparatuses" bit and you'll find a good explanation of it.
sebrina--it is so much fun! and i think i'm getting better at seeing things during the moment as well, but i totally didn't see those drops of water yesterday and as for the little mirror reflections, it just looked totally different as i looked through my viewfinder..i didn't expect that you wouldn't be able to see that it was a little mirror...it got much more disembodied in the picture than it looked.
February 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM
The effect on this last pic is fabulous! wow
February 17, 2009 at 3:18 PM
i need to get out my ttv "stuff" too and play around to capture something new.....I used it in january when we were in florida, but I haven't gotten it out here...hmmm, maybe the snow is the reason and we're getting more tomorrow....yikes !
February 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Oh come now, we're not totally to blame for the GEC now, too, are we? I can't take all this guilt.
I was hoping Obama would make everyone forget our stupidity for a bit.
I think I need to try something with a cardboard toilet paper roll only because that sounds like fun. But I would have to decorate it with glitter for roaming around SF.
I really like that first photo.
February 17, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Beautiful pictures Julie ~ got quite excited to see a bud on your curly hazel tree. Barb xo
February 17, 2009 at 11:07 PM
I see my question is already answered...:) I was wondering if the first and last pics were taken with a Holga...and I see they...ah, weren't...:)
I'm glad you took a break from fretting over permits to take some pretty pictures...
February 18, 2009 at 2:03 AM
gorgeous shots. I loved the daffodil shots especially.
February 18, 2009 at 5:20 AM