May 31st - The Way I See It...

This is my view of things when I'm playing the guitar. Eric picked our theme this week, "Human Form" and he said we could do the whole body or just part of it. I like hands, so I thought I'd show something that only human hands can do.
One strobe on 1/2 power through DIY Grid. Shot with my Tokina 12-24 wide angle zoom at 16mm.
1/160th sec. f/11 iso 200

May 30th - Symbiosis

Walking the dog today down by the port docks, I came across some Poppies and Lavender (I think), and the whole place was abuzz with pollen gathering activity. I tried getting some shots but Chester kept wanting my attention so I went back later by myself. I shot about 140 frames and easily narrowed them down to about 20 (man those bees are busy and difficult to shoot!) I finally picked this one out of the 20. Unfortunately, there are no poppies here, but it's the best Bee photo of the lot.
1/500th sec. f/5.6 iso 200

May 29th - Roy G. Biv

This is a re-shoot of the white rainbow shot from day before yesterday. This time, I shot during the day in full sunlight and it's a bit more colorful. I shot this on white paper in the back yard in direct sunlight, but I put a box out camera-right to cast a shadow to give the rainbow some contrast. White paper in direct sun was too bright.
1/750th sec. f/14 iso 400

May 28th - The Black Keys

A piano has, let's see, 3 plus 2 is five, times um how many octaves.. well let's just say a LOT of black keys. But there are only 2 black keys here....
1/8th sec. f/4 iso 400

May 27th - White Rainbow

This is a little glass thing I brought back from a business trip to China. It works like a prism when the sun shines on it. But in this shot it's being lit with my strobe and there's not really any color there to speak of. I'll do this again sometime with sunlight and see if we can squeeze any color out of it.
1/125th sec. f/5.6 iso 400

May 26th - A Room With a 360 View

To answer Alan's question from the other night, this is what the thing in "More Toys" can do. Be sure to click on the image above to see it in all of it's technological splendor. I have a lot of learning and tweaking to do - this is only about the 3rd time I've done this and it's rather cumbersome to work with.
1/125 sec. f/10 iso 400

May 25th - Closing Time

Shannon and I went out tonight after I got off work from the other one of my 2 part time jobs, and we got to witness closing time at the bar. This is something neither she nor I have seen in a long, long time. So we were joking amongst the 2 of us how we "closed the bar". This was funny because most people close a bar at 2 or 2:30 AM. We closed this one at 11:30. That's life in a sleepy, quaint little seaside village.
1/2 sec. f/3.5 iso 400