Focusing Photons: 2007

11/12/2007

San Diego, Balboa Park

Cactus flowers

An interesting insect, not a bee, but a fly.

This is amazing glass yes?

11/01/2007

I recently purchased a Canon 100mm Macro F/2.8 lens. Today was my first shoot with the lens, and right out of the box you can see what fantastic glass it is. I found a bee working laboriously away at these flowers.

After about 50 shots I felt pretty comfortable with the lens, even though my subject was buzzing around at a lightning pace.

And the close-up,,,,

10/21/2007

Griffy In october 07

8/26/2007

The cats

8/08/2007

Bleeding Heartland Rollergirl Inagural Match

BHRG warming up

Our dedicated fans

Tense anticipation

Take that Black and Blue grass girls

Our team is so crazy, they make threats at the floor sometimes.

It was all fun and games until the BHRG came on stage

It was a close match but the Bleeding heartland Rollergirls came out on top.

6/24/2007

NYC

4/18/2007

Chicago

4/15/2007

Griffy Blue Heron

Griffy trail

A caterpillar nest that stubbled across

Not a bad political strategy either

I had so many great shots of these herons, it just breaks my heart that I didn't grab my circular polarizer out of the camera bag when I left this morning. I could have really gotten some fantastic shots if I could have controlled the light bouncing off the lake. There was so much light it confused the camera sensors, and I was also trying to underexpose because of all that extra light, the result of which were 400 terrible photos. I was able to ps about 6 or so. I sat in a tree overlooking the lake for an hour, and luckily this bird got within 3 or so meters of me. I had several fish catching shots, none of which were above average. This one has the fish in it's beak.