Sunset

As I got on the highway to go home from my daughter's house I saw the most breathtaking sunset -- but there wasn't a safe place to stop and get a good view for a photograph.

Halfway to home the tops of the autumn-colored trees were lit and the trees below were already dark -- another awesome sight that I couldn't just stop to shoot.

So I stopped at the off-ramp near home and took this shot instead. The clouds were still lit from below by the setting sun, but nowhere near as beautiful as the shots I missed.

Sun flare

I've been trying to capture the starry sun flare for quite some time and yesterday morning as I started to drive out of my garage I thought I might just be able to catch it!

This was processed in Lightroom to crop it a little and add a vignette, then in CS5 using content aware fill to cut out the edge of my car window which I wasn't careful enough to spot in the viewfinder -- and add a "frame" and some text as well. Content aware fill also let me cut out the roof of my neighbor's garage. :-)

Wet

Summer's almost over, but there's still some hot weather to enjoy playing with the neighbor kids in the back yard with their rocket hose.

Ignition:

Liftoff!

Splash!

And look what you can do when you put your finger on the nozzle!

Daylilies

My daughter has some lovely daylilies! These are two different colors (pink and purple) and shot with two different cameras. I tried the reverse macro thing but couldn't get a handle on it.

Red

Petunias

and geraniums

Blur

Inspired by Hector at the Elements Village...

Once again I tried most of my lenses and this shot is a crop from the 75-300mm lens
Aperture priority, ISO 100, F5.6, on a tripod

I tried the 60 mm but didn't like the color.

baby in a flower - 1 year old (part 2)