..........brought the first blooms on one of our trees!  I love this time of year!

 evening light 

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Hope y'all enjoy!

You can always tell when it's spring around here.........time to go crawling around on your belly!

 small 

 curly 

Hope y'all enjoy!

 Happy Valentines Day

Photo before effects put in to it with Picnik, I used the small setup for doing still pics for ebay and such. I have small lights to use with it and put one above the plant. the soft light showed through the white material on the box. It was perfect for what I wanted. A nice soft look. It also was a hand held.

 Before effects  

Enjoy and your comments are welcome. ;)

When i got up  this morning i found more   Flowers from my guy    and  Ms Cappuccino  sniffing the sweet scent      

Remember to take time to smell the roses...  life is short , enjoy it!    

Wishing you all a beautiful day..    Blessings, Ms judi  :)

Wishing you all  a very Happy Valentine's Day 2010 ...  This is the weekend for romance... Go for it!!!!!!!!

 A Rose for you       Blessings, Ms judi

As stated yesterday... shots in color coming to a post near you:

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Last night while chasing the sunset i captured this Wisconsin  corn field catching the evening rays.....

thinking >   Pink      ( this macro  inspired by our Ms Faerie)  :)

blessings, Ms Judi 

Another set from tuesday night.  And please, all you "Nature's better in color" people... don't get your panties in a wad.  I have shots in color coming to post near you.

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 This evening i went out to capture our amazing Wisconsin   sunset . While i was out  Doug's dad brought over some  homemade frozen  beef   enchiladas (macro)  made by his mother.   This was the first time i have ever had one and it was delicious.. sorry no pics were taken after they were baked.. we ate them too fast! lol 

Have a great evening everyone... stay warm ... blessings,Ms Judi :)

As I was driving home yesterday, I was blinded driving west into the setting sun.  That's right kiddies, the sun was out for the first time this week.  I decided that when I got home, I'd get my camera back out and try and get some shots with more light... not much since the sun was setting... but still.  More light, which means more DOF... and hopefully better pictures.  So here's some more macros for the challenge.  Lemme know what you think (like I have any doubt you wouldn't).

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Happy 'hump' day!

UP> Close 

And> personal 

I don't know species of tree this is, but I like it.

Ill have to admit, this isnt recent, but I had it in my images unused. So sue me. LOL

Just for the challenge some macro shots I took.

I used my my speed light SB-600 to take these, not real good with the flash yet. I need to learn to set the white balance better too. But I gave it a shot. (the six Kids running around the house did not help either. Lol)

Well here they be kind to me. don't make it hurt too much. ;)

 A flower for u

 tiny squirrel friend

 turtle friends_2

 Tiny collection

 Help us_1

The last was for fun, Buddie likes to be in the middle of everything. ;)

Some more extension tube shots... Not sure if these are better or worse than yesterday.  I'll try and reshoot the flowers with some artificial light.  I was using very limited natural light coming through the window on a cloudy day.  I wanted to close down for more DOF on some of these (more so on yesterday's post), but even at ISO 800 and at f4 and f2.8 I never had a shutterspeed above 1/30".  I did find out yesterday that you guys didn't have any qualms over most of the compositions, just DOF.  Let me know if these are the same or if I should try something different altogether with these carnations.

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Thanks for looking, thanks for commenting and have a great day!

Something to smile about, my  Mellow Yellow ( macro)  gift  from my neighbor

and my  New hat      from my son thomas in New York..

I haven't been shooting much lately but I was replacing some components for a TV and the supplier of the parts wanted some step-by-step photos for their tutorials.  So while I was at it I shot this macro of some components.  (This is straight out of the camera.)

Thanks for the challenge.

A few macro/extension tube shots from the weekend.  I'm kinda in a funk, so if these um... suck, just let me know.  Thanks for looking and have a great Monday everyone!

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Dreaming  of  Spring     

 and another summer  of Doug fishing for   > Catfish 

Wishing  you all a great weekend ahead .  blessings, Ms Judi  :) 

This past summer  we bought a small fishing boat for my guy  Doug and his dad to have some male bonding time out on the Peshtigo  river .   Here is  Doug      holding his first catch of summer of 2009. As you can see it was  quite small ..  he had to throw that one back into the water.. He did catch two  Smallmouth Bass (macro) later that day...  and it was delicious    :)

Wishing you all a great day .. :) 

blessings, Ms Judi