Here's yet another gallery featuring the 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens, this time playing with a lizard that is holding onto a branch of one of the Japanese Maples in front of the house. I love how the lens really shows you the details of the scales that is breathtakingly sharp! :)
Today I did my first real wedding photo shoot at the Cape Fear Botanical Gardens...the same place I had scouted a week ago with my sister Meghann. The wedding was for her boss Robyne at the Gilbert Theatre and it was a wonderful ceremony to experience. Mind you, I was nervous as it was my first wedding shoot and I can assure you I invoking Alan Shepard's prayer more than a few times down I-40…
October's special treat comes from the world of astronomy with the planets Venus, Jupiter, and Mars in a lovely conjunction (Mars is pretty hard to see compared to the other two but the iPhone 6 Plus still did a pretty decent job of getting it). Of course, the D7000 or D810 with the 50mm f/1.4 or the 70-200mm f/2.8 probably would have done better but then I DID have a kid I had to collect…
This is the other roll of slide film I shot at Ocean Isle Beach using Provia 100. You can see that it is much less saturated with color and as a faster speed film is much better in retaining contrast details even when shooting in the evening. Provia 100 is my go-to general purpose slide film and it was what I was using when I was wandering round the mountains in the spring. In darker…
