The first photo was taken from the backyard last Sunday at sunset. The spectacular colors lasted for roughly five minutes. I am glad that I did not try to go find a better foreground!
The second photo was taken yesterday morning while I was out doing the weekly errands. The folks at the transfer station crush and bale the aluminum cans that are dropped off to be recycled. The bales are roughly 4 feet by 4 feet by 3 feet and weigh about 600 pounds. There is often a bale or two sitting near the dumpster where we deposit our trash. I have been pondering the photographic possibilities of these bales for some months now. Yesterday I had the Nikon V1 with me and business was slow, so I got the camera out with this result!
The third photo was made on our dining room table this afternoon. I had noticed the flowering Christmas cactus earlier in the day and used the nice soft window light to make this photo.
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The first two photos were made with my little camera (the Nikon V1).
Initially, I also picked up the V1 to use for the last photograph. I was interested in exploring how close I could get (with either lens) and I was interested if I could get a nice shallow depth of field with the flower in focus and an out of focus background; the latter is always a problem with a small sensor camera and proved so again in this case. Additionally neither lens was capable of focusing in close enough to fill the frame with the flower. The V1 is a nice camera but it is not macro capable! The last photo was made with my 90 mm macro lens on the “big gun”.