Thanks Gale for the inspiration...

Gale posted a flower and bee shot recently and it inspired me....see my humble attempt...



I also took this shot of a spiderweb on our wrought iron pool fence. I was shooting directly into the sun and had a tough time w/the exposure, but in the end, i was relatively please w/the effect of this one....let me know what you all think...



Thanks in advance for looking!

 

Paul...Thanks for the kind words. I am trying hard to do well, so the kudos encourage me.

Bryan, that shot was tough. I tried it from about 30 different angles before I came up with this one.

Harry...I've seen your work and you are NO
novice!!!

Thanks Gordon! The highlights on this one looked much better than the others I shot. The sun was so bright and I'm still learning how to compensate.

Patrick, I got another one I'm working on converting to B&W....I'll see if I can get it up today.

Thanks everyone!

 

Re: Love the flowers and bee.

Thanks Greg...yeah, I think I'll keep my little camera for a while. Let me conquer it before I go on to something bigger. It will make me that much better in the long run I would hope.

I took a few others, but I'm still trying to decide if any of them are good enough. Y'all haven't seen the last of me yet!

 

I don't like spiders either....but as he was small and I wasn't very close...I felt mostly safe! :?

I tried cropping the second one and I felt it lost something. I'm still learning how work on them after they've been taken. I'm also having a hard time figuring out why it won't shoot RAW all the time...I'm going to have to look through the manual tonight and see what I can figure out.
Thanks for the advice and thanks for looking...

 

the spider was home...he was just VERY TINY!!! :lol:

Thanks for being and inspiration!

 

Tee hee hee :lol: ....you wouldn't like living in our house then....about 4 years ago we found out we had a colony of bees living in the soffet of our house. Had a fella come out and try to get rid of them....alas they left for a while and then they were back last year but had moved to the front of our house and down into the wall. (they were in the wall all the way from the attic, the second floor, first floor and down into the wall of our basement). We had another fella come and fix it! He was here at least once a week just about all summer and they are finally gone...Knock on wood! What's so crazy is that when it was quiet at night after the kids had gone to bed, you could hear them buzzing in the wall (the wall where our headboard was!!!)

Thanks for looking!

 

Thanks everyone for the kind words and encouragement. It means so much when I get positive feedback....even more so when it's from such a talented group of nice people!

Thanks everyone!