kotay.net - Keith - Photography - Landscape & Nature - 2007 Spring And Summer

Quote of the day: "This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock." -- Edward Weston

These are photos I took from April 2007 through July 2007 (during August I was traveling in the western U.S.). Through mid-June most shots were taken with my Olympus SP-350 camera. Around the middle of June I discovered that my Sony DSC-R1 is actually a great close up camera, when coupled with the Sony HVL-F32X flash. The flash allows shutter speeds of 1/400 second and faster, which enables me to hand hold the camera & tripod combination. Although the closest focus distance of the R1 is around 0.4 meters, with the lens at maximum focal length the magnification is acceptable. Once I realized that the R1 could do close up photography (with better image quality than the SP-350), I purchased the Sony VCL-M3367 close up lens to reduce the minimum subject distance. After mid-June almost all photos are from the Sony R1.

Note: Images labeled "Virtual Painter" were created using Virtual Painter 5.

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Monarch Chrysalids 4/22 Olympus SP-350	Monarch 4/23 Olympus SP-350	Waves 5/6 Sony DSC-R1	Begonia Bloom 5/9 Olympus SP-350
First Bloom 5/17 Olympus SP-350	Marigold Bloom 5/26 Olympus SP-350	Past & Present 5/29 Olympus SP-350	Snake 5/29 Olympus SP-350
Moth 5/30 Olympus SP-350	Tiger Swallowtails Puddling 5/30 Olympus SP-350	Needles 6/12 Sony DSC-R1	Damselflies I 6/13 Sony DSC-R1
Damselflies II 6/13 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly I 6/13 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly II 6/13 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly 6/15 Sony DSC-R1 + VCL-M3367
Dragonfly 6/15 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly Impasto 6/15 Virtual Painter: impasto Sony DSC-R1	Flower Impasto 6/15 Virtual Painter: impasto Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly 6/16 Sony DSC-R1
Flowers 6/16 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly I 6/21 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly II 6/21 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly III 6/21 Sony DSC-R1
Damselfly IV 6/21 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly I 6/22 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly I Impasto 6/22 Virtual Painter: impasto Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly III 6/22 Sony DSC-R1
Dragonfly I 6/22 Sony DSC-R1	Fly 6/22 Sony DSC-R1	Begonia Bloom 6/25 Sony DSC-R1	Begonia Bloom Gouache 6/25 Virtual Painter: gouache Sony DSC-R1
Damselflies 6/27 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly 6/27 Sony DSC-R1	Butterfly II 6/28 Sony DSC-R1 + VCL-M3367	Butterfly III 6/28 Sony DSC-R1 + VCL-M3367
Dragonfly II 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly III 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly IV 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Vines I 6/28 Sony DSC-R1
Vines II 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Vines III 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Vines IV 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Mantis 6/28 Sony DSC-R1
Dragonfly Impasto 6/29 Virtual Painter: impasto Sony DSC-R1	Berries 6/29 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly I 7/7 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly III 7/7 Sony DSC-R1
Dragonfly V 7/7 Sony DSC-R1

Note: Images labeled "Virtual Painter" were created using Virtual Painter 5.