My flickr contact rosemary* posted this spectacular macro of a hypericum taken with a canon 5D III and a Tamron 90mm macro lens.
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Queen Anne’s lace and pods
My flickr contact Nico van Malssen took this great image of Queen Anne’s lace and some pods in The Netherlands.
Cosmos
My flickr contact Marser took this great shot looking up at cosmos flowers in Kyoto, Japan with his Ricoh GRD IV.
Nice to see this image on this dreary day in the Northeast US.
Small flower
My flickr contact Jonne Naarala posted this great image of a small flower taken in Finland with his Ricoh GR Digital IV.
Camellia
My flickr contact rosemary* shot this camellia with a Canon 5D and a Zeiss lens. The bokeh is mind blowing, rosemary knows how to make blur like nobody’s business.
Lotus
My flickr contact chris schroeer-heiermann took this image of a lotus flower and leaves in Tokyo, Japan with his Canon PowerShot S95.
Dew drop
My flickr contact lalie sorbet has posted a beautiful image of a drop of dew on a flower taken in India. The contrast between the top of the drop and the color of the petal behind it is quite incredible.
Brown-eyed Susans going by
Warren, Connecticut. We were over at some friends’ for dinner and I noticed a large group of brown-eyed Susans, bigger than any clump we have at our place. Nice to have the camera along to spend some time with them as they’ll be gone soon.
Lotuses
Japanese Garden, Van Nuys, California. I’m back in Los Angeles and back at the Japanese Garden shooting “loti” (lotuses) again. Thank god it was breezy as it was hot (hotter tomorrow) but not so great for shooting spindly flowers.
The above image is a RAW file processed high contrast in Lightroom. The Ricoh GR’s high contrast JPEG blew out the faces of the petals so I went to the RAW file to get more detail there. Nice to have both files.
Japanese Garden, Van Nuys, California. I’m back in Los Angeles and back at the Japanese Garden shooting “loti” (lotuses) again. Thank god it was breezy as it was hot (hotter tomorrow) but not so great for shooting spindly flowers.
This lotus seed pod is the high contrast JPEG processed in the Ricoh GR. The RAW file showed more detail but less contrast and was less interesting visually. Nice to have both files to mess with.
Mountain Laurel on Paradise Lane
Paradise Lane Trail, Bear Mountain, Connecticut. Gary and I hiked from Undermountain Trail in Connecticut to the Race Brook Falls Trail in Massachusetts along the Appalachian Trail a few weeks ago (I’m behind in my photo editing).
This was not a good year for mountain laurel and these blooms along Paradise Lane were the best ones we saw on this hike. I liked the way the Ricoh GR made them look in high contrast but these are the GR’s RAWs processed in Lightroom. I liked the extra detail the RAW files gave me.
The color images are done with the Sony RX100 III and show the wonderful colors of this state plant of Connecticut.
