Mushrooms!

A photograph of two very tiny mushrooms near a creek.

Night Photo Shoot

Last night I felt like going out and finding something to photograph. My theme was finding a simple topic, as simple as a traffic light, and make something interesting out of it.

My first attempt was a light behind a tree. Many photos were taken here but only one made it to my collection.

f/9, shutter speed 6sec, ISO 100

At first I wanted to show the entire tree, but that seemed too boring as a composition; it's good to try
I different ideas.

The second "keeper" was this photograph of a traffic light, which was taken reluctantly.

f/22,  shutter speed 4sec, ISO 100

 To achieve this effect I had to use an 8-point star filter.

Sweet Water at dawn

I went to SweetWater lake the other day right before the sun rose up. The air was unbelievably nice and the lake had a nice misty surface.
To my luck, there were clouds in the sky that day, or else the scene would have been super boring.

I met another photographer over there who was quite as excited as I was about the clouds in the sky. I never really asked for his name; we just spoke like geeks.

Ah well, more days to come and more places to explore.

HDR can be really tricky; it's a thin line between over doing and under doing the image. Here's an image I took of the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta which uses this technique.

Here's a photograph of Sweat Water lake here in northern Atlanta Ga, as a start for the Photography section on this blog. You can see the solo duck enjoying the nice weather we had that day.
I'm still a learning photographer, but with persistence and listening to the advice of masters who knows what will happen!