Week 48 - 52 Photographs

When you get up before the sun, you often can see some remarkable sights in the sky.

This week’s photograph of the moon and Spica was taken at 5:18 am. Spica is that little white dot just below the moon.

Spica is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo and one of the 20 brightest stars in the night sky. It's also known as Alpha Virginis, and is located about 250 light-years from the Sun.

“Tri-X, f/8, and be there.“

Week 47 - 52 Photographs

Back to my Week 10 subject for this week’s favorite photograph.

Roxie napping on a November afternoon. My favorite subject to photograph but one that I don’t do very often.

“Tri-X, f/8, and be there.“

Week 46 - 52 Photographs

 This week’s favorite photograph was taken on the first day of the week, Sunday, November 10th.

I usually see numerous Northern Mockingbirds during my walks at Manchester Meadows Park. And over the last year and a half have gotten some very nice photographs of them. But this one could be my all time favorite. 

Usually a Mockingbird will fly off whenever I get too close. But this Mockingbird just did not want to leave where it was perched. So I pointed my camera at him/her and got this photograph. It looks perturbed that I am photographing it. It looks grumpy due to my interruption of its morning by taking a photograph.

So, here is the Grumpy Old Northern Mockingbird photographed by a Grumpy Old Photographer.

“Tri-X, f/8, and be there.“

Week 45 - 52 Photographs

This Week’s photograph was taken using the Live ND feature on my Olympus OM-5. Rather then carry a selection of ND filters around with you and screwing one or more onto the front of the lens, you can select from four different ND values; ND2 at -1EV, ND4 at -2EV, ND8 at -3EV, or ND16 at -4EV.

In use Live ND takes multiple short exposures which are then combined into a composite image that simulates a long exposure.

This is only the second time I have used this feature and for certain situations it works quite well.

“Tri-X, f/8, and be there.“

52 photographs - Week 44

Most of the time I photograph the moon I use a telephoto lens to get as large as an image of the moon as I can.

However there are times when a wide angle lens does the job. And this was one of those times. 

“Tri-X, f/8, and be there.“