Not a great picture, but I did have to hunt for the chicken a bit.

And now, I’ll stop tormenting Jake for a while.

I can’t decide which I like or why…

More here…

(But I’m supposed to organize my flickr account…so that could change…)

Jake’s chicken, hanging out amidst the Mexican Primrose under the Orange tree.

I needed a picture for Friday, May 16th. It was late. So I took some pictures of a dog toy under the coffee table. My first results looked like what’s posted above. I bet that the white balance was set to cloudy initially, but I must have deleted the first few results. They freaked me out a bit. So then I started to play with the white balance. All these pictures were taken with the flash on, and red eye reduction on, because I was really trying to get a picture of Jake carrying his chicken…but he wouldn’t let me. The one above is incandescent.

This one is fluorescent.

This one is shade.

And the last is flash.

I was going to take a picture of my husband’s new D300 for the day, but he thought that would be making fun of him…so I didn’t.

I’m going to change the name of the blog…

Playing with depth of field. I was trying and trying to get the only other buds on these fuschias, but I wanted a shallow depth of field and they were too far apart. So I’ll settle for this one.

Not the best picture. But it was a beautiful morning in the garden. It was the first sunny morning in weeks. However, I didn’t check my settings or the fact that there was a polarizer on the lens I was using, so I got some freaky colors on many things. This was just dark and I lightened it up a bit.

What do you take pictures of on an overcast day? The dogs, of course.

I was taking some other pictures and then decided to try to get them to play and get some ‘action’ shots. So I took my camera off Program, and set it to Sports Mode. Talk about washed out! I actually did some color adjusting to the picture above. Here’s the original…

(Jake is the black one.)

Two bird in fountain pictures in a row. What are you going to do?

This was taken with a Sigma 70-300, which does NOT autofocus on my D40. This is the case for the oriole pic too. So I’ve learned the ‘take lots of pics because if you move even slightly, you’ve blown the focus’ method of shooting. I love digital. But I do want a 300mm lens that will autofocus.

I just couldn’t resist. I’m really excited about this one. But still, I’m trying to develop my ‘eye’ for cropping. So I’m going to do what I didn’t think I’d do…post two versions here.

Thoughts?