Wilting~B&W
Contrast~B&W
DOF~ B&W
Multiples~B&W
Standing Tall~B&W
Tipsy~B&W

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Bonus DOF

Vacation was great!  We had a fantastic time.  I even met Travlin!  What a fun day! (I will post some shots from our day together later)  Here are some quick shots from Mystic Seaport in Mystic CT.
Looking up,  higher and higher.

I'm re-aquainting myself with my old Minolta X-370 SLR. For these, I used a Sigma 50mm macro lens.
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~II~

Purely for the awwwww... factor.
Contrast
DOF
Air-head
Falling to pieces
Coming in for a landing

Wheel
Step right up
Peek-a-boo
Waiting
DOF
The line up
Wearing my shades
Look at those legs

Matthew was born April 16th, 1993. Ever since '95, we've been measuring him every 2 months. We missed it 8-04 but, wow, look at that growth spurt from 10-04 to 12-04!!

Couple of extra shots...
2 moons Actually, the moon on the right is the reflection of the moon on the left between the UV lens and the camera lens. (My camera doesn't take good shots of the moon...I don't know why, but I keep trying!)
DOF 1
DOF 2
I was experimenting with DOF on these 2 shots, and hopefully got it okay.

Thank you all for wishing me well... I'm not completely well, but feeling ALOT better, and that's great news!!!     I love you all....

        TURBO

In the mud today!   Everyone had a great time today.  Except when they had to  work on thier trucks. Not a clean way to spend the day!  But a  lot of fun. There were several different kinds of trucks.  They really hate when  this happens.  Everyone was there to see the mud fly. Some of the truck were really big. Some weren't.  This  little guy enjoyed the mud to the fullest! I was glad I actually ended up getting to ride with a friend.  I loved it!  These guys asked us for a fishing pole. This is what kind of fun you can have after a lot of rain.  All you need is a field a mudding truck and a bunch of rednecks who just want to have fun!!!

I feel like I've been gone forever... It was just three days in the hospital, but when you're not the one sleeping, it's like a year.

So what does a photographer do when he's bored?

This one plays with Perspective!! (or is this called DOF?)

When that was no longer interesting I messed with Long exposures at Night and seeing what control I had over Manual Focus with my point-and-shoot camera.

The next day, with the wind blowing hard, I took about 30 shots before I finally got the American flag AND the POW flag both standing at the VA Med Center next door.

(And I'll spare you the 2 hours I spent messing around with f-stop and shutter speeds... about 75 pictures later and I'm still no wiser!)

C

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a friendly piece of tail

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I don't see my tw other DOF entries in the list, so I must have done something wrong. Found something to enter.Sunny Moss Baby Tree Frog I'll try again!

long short

Dee oh eph, I had a lot of fun with this but just could not get what I wanted.  I'm now aware of the depth of this and will continue to experiment. Here are some of my experiments.

A map of the garment district where I work.  I wanted to get just the "You are Here" in focus, but after numerous attempts, including developing film, I gave up.

Parking meter in front of B&H.  Guess how much it cost to park here on the street.  Any guesses?  Answer is further down the page.

Yellow twisted fluorescent energy saver light bulb.   Say that five times fast.

Here is my favorite dee of eph. (Depth of food).  A pastrami sandwich from the Carnegie deli, ogled last Monday night, which cost $12.75, but was eaten in two subsequent meals.

The meter cost 50 cents per 15 minutes, which is one dollar an hour, credit cards are accepted.  The parking lot behind the meter is something like $15/hour.    I hardly drive into the city, but when I do, I find on free street parking.

Here's a few pic's using DOFRose1 Rose2 Fishing

Orbit 1 was stunning. here I hope to emulate him.

*Velcro *Velcro II
*Snow Fence I
*winter Weeds
*Moss *Frosted Wheat
*Reds *Bird food
*Frosted Field
*Phone Lines

I started out with the marbles being quite organized on a disc, and then tried to get  some DOF, and a little bit different shot, and then I dumped them all together and took some shotsto see what happened.  After that I added  some pebbles and this is the end.  Before I started, I had to hunt all over the house to find where my grandkids had hidden the marbles.  It is frustrating when you have an idea and can't find the stuff.

Tufted-Titmouse
Ring-Billed Gull

I'm a competitive sort of person, and I love a good challenge.  Depth of field has given me some motivation to experiment with my camera, learning by trial and error.  These are what I've come up with.

The first is a shot of "he who shall remain nameless".  I thought the light filtering through his mane made it look rather full (as compared to usual), and so I shot it...  head .  He was not impressed.

The others are nature shots, which I thought would fit the bill.  More twigs and berries: dangling , obscure, and  picky.  And at the other end of the DOF range - a neat pic of a pond, with a bit of fog at sunset  twilight.  I'm loving this new hobby of mine!

My take on DOF.  Girl with a Stone is fairly self explanatory.  With  Seat 33A, I was trying to get a shot of this woman's profile as she read, but I guess I got busted.  Oh well . . .  

DOF is not a word, but an acronym for Dept of Field
and is pronounced dee  oh  éph.