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We are up in Door County for a long weekend, and on the way to Sister Bay, we stopped at Stones Throw Winery to pick up a few bottles for the weekend. For those of you who received my Christmas cards last year, there were 4 winter scene pictures that I used. One of them was an old tractor covered with snow. That was taken at this winery in December of 2008. So I thought it would been cool to get a summer picture of it - but when we got there, I didn't see it and thought it was gone. Upon closer look - it was just surrounded with grass and plants! So here is my "summer tractor"!
Exposure: 1/100
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 60mm
ISO Speed: 200
These are letters that sit on my dresser. I like the contrast of the sliver against the dark wood as well as the focus on just a few of the letters.
Exposure: 1/30
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 200
Mini theme this week of me taking pictures of me. Nothing overly exciting about this one - just something different to do!
Exposure: 1/13
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 200
Trying to find some new and interesting things take pictures of - I settled with my hands tonight! I thought the depth of field on this pic was interesting.
Exposure: 1/60
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 200
Ahhh today was a fantastic Sunday! I started out with at 5.5 mile run, then headed out to the Firefly art fair in Wauwatosa. Then down to the Tosa Village for some shopping and picture taking! The sun was still pretty high in the sky so not the best photo conditions, but I was still having fun. This is a great French Cafe in the village and I just loved the reflection of the flag in the window! No PS editing.
Exposure: 1/250
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 47mm
ISO Speed: 200
After being away for what seems like forever - I spent the whole day working in my yard! Boy o boy did I have some weeding to do! After a long day in the sun, I was lacking a bit of inspiration but figured the flowers in my yard deserved the attention! No PS editing on this one.
Exposure: 1/2000
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Whew this week was a tough one... I had a terrible time getting back into the routine of home after a weeks vacation! Good thing Friday led us to Vino 100 for a few glasses of wine (and cheese) on the patio! I just LOVED the color contract of this photo with the orange building, dark blue sky, green tree and lighter blue umbrella! No PS editing on this one.
Exposure: 1/20
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 1600
We had a charity golf outing today and once again, I did not get any photos in. I was going to take my camera to the outing, but it was supposed to rain all day (which it did). By the time I got home it was time for bed! This one is from our San Fran trip - in Chinatown. I adjusted the exposure slightly and ran a color boost action on it twice. I love the colors and textures in this photo!
Exposure: 1/400
Aperture: f/14
Focal Length: 40mm
ISO Speed: 1250
Tonight we had Ray's brother over for some brats on the grill and I was trying to get some cool pictures of shadows from my garden on the garage - but there was just not enough light and they did not turn out. So I turned my attention to my blooming hostas that faced my house (which was throwing much more light!). I like the focus on this one of the strand of buds against the brightness of the patio area.
Exposure: 1/25
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 1600
As I mentioned earlier, this week has been slow on the creative juices - as well as the time to get photos in. Today is another cheater day. This was a pic from Fathers Day weekend that I jut loved - I tried it in black and white, but liked it even more in the subdued colors.
Exposure: 1/6400
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 100
So I've been struggling to be creative with my photos since I've been back from vacation. I almost didn't get one today - its nothing special, but I did take a few shots.
Exposure: 1/6
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 93mm
ISO Speed: 1250
One of my favorite places to stop in San Fran is Kara's Cupcakes (www.karacupcakes.com). In the very simply shop, the cupcakes are displayed under glass like jewelry - SO fun! We of course stopped and enjoyed one right away - and took two to go. The to-go boxes even had holes cut out of the bottom to keep them from sliding around. Well apparently it was not enough to withstand being hauled through the airport, a 3 hour delay, a 4.5 hour flight, and a car ride home, as when we opened them - they looked like this :-(
Exposure: 1/15
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 58mm
ISO Speed: 1250
We took the redeye which left CA at 1:00am on Friday - needless to say that I was off all day trying to recoop from a crazy flight and the 2 hour time difference. I did not get a photo in today so I'm using another one from the trip! While we were out in Wine Country, I really wanted to get to the coast one night for a pacific sunset. Bodega Bay was our destination for this adventure. They aren't kidding when they say it's "cooler" at the coast - it was darn near COLD and windy! It was all I could do to stand outside in the whipping wind to take pictures for the 15 minutes the sun was setting. Unfortunately, my skills at taking photos of sunsets pretty much sucks - so I chose this picture - which was taken at dusk just before the sun set. I did some minor editing in PS in curves, as well as slightly bumping up the saturation.
Exposure: 1/100
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 200
Our last day of vacation and we spent the day in San Francisco seeing all the sights we could in a day! Just as the day we arrived, we had heavy fog for our bridge viewing, so we just had to work with it! It actually does make some pretty cool pictures. We walked to the first "tower" and as you got closer, you were able to see more of it. I liked this perspective of the structure. I did some adjustments of the reds in PS along with bumping the exposure down just slightly.
Exposure: 1/8000
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 1250
We visited 3 different wineries today and all of them were fantastic. They all included tours and this particular one included their barrel storage caves. Mmmmm just look at all fantastic wine... one barrel produces about 25 cases of wine or 295 bottles! Heaven in a cave! I was using my 50mm lens as it does much better in low light without having to use my flash. I had to bump up my ISO quite a bit as you can see below.
Exposure: 1/13
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 1250
We are up in Door County for a long weekend, and on the way to Sister Bay, we stopped at Stones Throw Winery to pick up a few bottles for the weekend. For those of you who received my Christmas cards last year, there were 4 winter scene pictures that I used. One of them was an old tractor covered with snow. That was taken at this winery in December of 2008. So I thought it would been cool to get a summer picture of it - but when we got there, I didn't see it and thought it was gone. Upon closer look - it was just surrounded with grass and plants! So here is my "summer tractor"!
