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

Quote of the day: "From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man--the function of his reasoning mind." --Ayn Rand

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.

 
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
Sony DSC-R1 + Virtual Painter
 
Flower Impasto  6/15
Sony DSC-R1 + Virtual Painter
 
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
Sony DSC-R1 + Virtual Painter
 
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
Sony DSC-R1 + Virtual Painter
 
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
Sony DSC-R1 + Virtual Painter
 
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