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Monday, February 16, 2015

Night Sky...

It was a nice, cold, clear night in the woods Sunday night, so I ventured out and tried to capture the star field for the first time with my little olympus. I centered the view on Orion, as it was bright enough to manually focus on in the viewfinder.
10 sec exposure of the southern sky at 8pm, 20mm f/1.7, iso1600

Monday, February 2, 2015

Macro Flora...

Putting the vintage 1974 Micro-Nikkor through its paces at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens Greenhouses:

Most if not all of these were made at maximum magnification (1:2 before crop), so the subjects in each photo are about 36mm (1.4 inches) across...
More Photos after the break...