Vermont

On a recent visit to Vermont, I wanted to take up close and personal images of nature.  They say God is in the details.  I don’t know about that, but there is so much beauty in the details.  My thought was to get as close as I could to an object and take a picture with a shallow depth of field, turning the background into a blurry haze.

I’m pretty happy with the results, even though I brought the wrong lens with me.  I should have used a 35mm or 5omm prime lens with which I could get really close.  I didn’t, so I did the best I could.  Next time.

I’ve also been using Lightroom more and more and had a fun time getting lost in the image and marveling at the enormous change to the image that a tiny adjustment made to a single parameter made.  There was a certain zen in tweaking and tweaking, gradually working towards the final image.

 

VSCO

Roses are dead...
Roses are dead…

I’ve been playing around with the VSCO app on my iPhone.  It allows you to take a little control of the phone’s camera and then offers many powerful ways to tweak the image.

I got it because, as much as I’d LIKE to have my camera on me when beauty presents itself, I usually don’t.  That may be a habit I should break.  In the meantime, I’ll have fun with this app and use it to try to capture the beauty in everyday life all around me.

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Crates

I’ve been waiting for the skies to cloud up to take a photo of this wall of cranberry crates.  We’ve had such a long stretch of dry weather and/or torrential rains that I wondered if it was ever going to happen.

Finally, on Saturday, it clouded up with only a little drizzle to contend with.