I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than me.
I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.
So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.
Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.
Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.
Link back here to me.
Easy Peasy.
Though I also don’t think that they are horrible photos either. I went for a walk this morning and took some photos. I was fascinated by this piece of roadkill. This was a wallaby. Now it is a series of photos.
I adore the moon, absolutely love it. The sight of a full moon makes me shiver with happiness. I had taken a couple of photos of the moon last night in preparation for the lunar eclipse and they were horrible, boring, lifeless photos of a white globe in the sky.
Luckily for me and for you as well, I have a very clever and supremely patient daughter who talked me through the aperture and shutter speed settings on the camera. I was pressing buttons and twirling knobs and nothing was changing when voila I magically found the right combination of sideclick,press and twirl and the aperture and shutter speed revealed themselves to me.
So without further ado and a great big round of applause to Veronica, she of the sleepless nights and cloudy skies, here are my photos of the lunar eclipse over Tasmania.
and for those of you who this technical stuff means anything I used a Nikon D90, freehand with a 200mm lens, aperture of 8 and shutter speed of 800.
The full moon just before the eclipse.
The beginnings of the eclipse.
It is all happening by now and my nose was very very cold, luckily for me I could keep on racing back inside to thaw out.
This last shot was the moon just before sunrise at about 6.30 am on a frosty Sunday morning.
We go down to the river a lot “The Spouse” and I.
I didn’t realize how lazy I had become in regards to my photography. Once I had adjusted the settings on my lumix I could just snap away merrily and take zillions of photos that I was reasonably happy with. The Nikon is a whole different ball game, it is tricky and complicated and my ratio of crap photos to decent is about a hundred to one. Luckily I have fluked a couple of decent shots that give me hope, that eventually I will learn how to use my tricky, tricky camera.
I am also learning how to use photoshop to edit my photos which is another tricky and complicated programme.I don’t like to edit my photos, it is a pain in the neck and a complete time thief. Most of the photos that I publish here have only had minimal editing or in the case of this lillium, not been edited at all
I know that all I really need to do is take the time to properly read the instruction book that came with the camera but time is something that is in short supply lately.
The mice have decided to do a little bit of interior decorating for me. The helpful little rodents decided that this neglected corner of my kitchen needed a bit of sparkle. So they broke into my secret stash of left over Easter Eggs and ate the chocolate. By way of apology they then nibbled the paper into mouse sized pieces and artistically filled a spider web with sparkly foil.
I have packed up the cups for Brenda’s bloggy birthday giveaway and I will post these off today. If you haven’t entered Brenda’s giveaway I think there is still time, if you’re quick.
Yesterday there was a lovely sunrise and as much as I am conscious of how busy my life has become. There is always time to take photos of the sky.
