Foraging

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Echinacea

Nikon D90 105.0 mm f/2.8 lens @ 105 mm 1/250 sec @ f/16, ISO 200

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ~Theodore Roosevelt

This is my first attempt at creating a macro image [...]

Iris

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Memorial Day 2011

Nikon D7000 105.0 mm f/2.8 lens @ 105 mm 1/60 sec @ f/11, ISO 100

In valor there is hope. ~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus

We spent Memorial Day in Preston, ID this year. We took Iris flowers from our yard to the Preston cemetery to [...]

Flowering Flames

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Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival 2011

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. ~Helen Keller

Click on the image above to see a gallery of flowers that remind me of flames or fire or sunshine. I’d love to have some [...]

Blushing

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Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival 2011

Blushing is the color of virtue ~Diogenes

It is time again for the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point.  With the wet and snowy Spring, I wasn’t sure I would make it this year. But the day today turned out nicely.

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Backyard Daffodils

Backyard daffodils

Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty. ~William Shakespeare

This is some of Kellie’s handiwork along our rock wall (from up close.) Is using a wide angle lens to do macros a little weird?  Nah.

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