This morning, as I drove up the driveway and headed up the steps with seventy-six things in my hand, I noticed a little plant hidden behind my massive purple mums. It was a rust-colored mum. It wasn’t crying out for attention or anything. It just quietly sat there content with what sun and moisture it could get.
Since it had been raining all morning, it was beautifully speckled with water droplets. So despite my raging hunger and the fact that I had ninety-two more things to carry into the house, I stopped a while to grab my camera and snap some shots.
I wasn’t too thrilled with what I saw using the super macro mode, so I attached my trusty old Raynox DCR-250 macro lens. That’s when the magic happened.
Well, not technically magic, but nature has a way of making it appear so.
By the way, these shots are straight out of the camera. The only processing I did was to resize them for posting.
These are probably the best straight-out-of-the-camera shots I’ve ever taken.
So as not to feel neglected, I snapped a few shots of my hibiscus plant sitting on the porch as well. It’s been looking pretty lonely. Imagining my plants feeling lonely kinda makes me feel sad inside.
This one was kinda snooty though. See how she just flipped her head and pretended to ignore me?
Typical.
These are stunning. Once again I have that ache.
Thanks, Shrew.
Wait, by ‘ache,’ you don’t mean that stabbing pain in the pit of your stomach right before you throw up, do you?
:)
Oh the lighting, the colors, the beauty… the wit!
Ivoryhut you are blessed with wonderful talent as a photographer and as a writer as well.
Now can you tell me about these lenses you have for your camera that’s not a SLR?
Brc, you’re making me blush. Thanks!
Okay, the macro lens I use is a Raynox DCR-250. You can see it here, somewhere in the middle of the entire page. Raynox makes a slew of lenses for non-DSLR digital cameras, and I am now contemplating getting a wide angle conversion lens as well. I have absolutely NO complaints about the quality of their glass, as you can see from the pictures.
I bought mine from B&H for about $43.95. It has a universal mount so it just “clips on” to the $10 tube adapter I have on my camera, and I’m good to go.
I’m working on a post to describe what equipment I use, hopefully with some photos. I can’t recommend the DCR-250 enough. Most of my best macros were taken with it.
Well shoot. Now I need to decide whether to invest more money in this camera or cut my losses and just get a SLR with the appropriate lenses. My biggest issue is that with this camera I can’t get the depth of field I want. Even with the aperture set at 2.8 it seems that pretty much everything is in focus. I’m thinking I just need to sell this piece of crap and get a real camera.
[...] here are the mums from my previous post. Remember? The ones I said were perhaps the best straight out of the camera shots I’ve taken [...]