Piperbarb's 2013 Project 365

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12-25-13:

More succulent photos... This is one that a former teacher aide gave me on St. Valentine's Day. I noticed that it has a whole bunch of air roots. It also suddenly started to grow. I haven't done anything to it. I don't know what species of succulent it is, but those are the only types of plants that seem to thrive for me.

 

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12-26-13:

While waiting for the tea kettle to boil this afternoon, I was looking at the LED clock on the stove, and it gave me an idea of what to photograph. Call it the stove clock study, if you will. I was curious to see at what shutter speed would the time on the clock look "solid," so to speak. It was as I expected, but it was fun, none the less.

I set my D7000 to manual, and used my 35mm f/1.4 pre-autofocus lens. All images were taken at f/2. Below are my results.

Shutter speed: 1/250


Shutter speed: 1/160


Shutter speed: 1/80


Shutter speed: 1/60


I think I need a life! HaHa!

 

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12-27-13:

I looked at my Christmas cactus today and noticed the half-dead, rather withered flower. It was so beautiful on Tuesday (see post #1138. Today it looks like a has-been.

the After-Christmas Cactus Flower

 

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12-28-13:

I was outside this afternoon with the dog when I took this. I did not have my camera with me but did have my iPhone. I'm not a fan of phone photos, but sometimes one does not have a choice. It had a terrible blue cast, which I did the best I could to get rid of. Then I decided to just convert it to B&W and solve the color balance problem. After working with RAW files from my camera all the time, I forgot how limited editing a JPEG is.

Runoff

 

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12-29-13:

Considering that the weather was totally icky today: rain, 35ºF, then the temperature dropped and it has been snowing lightly since. I think Alex has it right as what to do on such a yucky day....

Zzzzzz...

 

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12-30-13:

I got so involved in reading The Good Nurse, a book about the male nurse in NJ/PA who police estimated killed upwards of 400 patients in about 15 years that I almost forgot a photo for today. So here is a very bad grab shot of the weird blue holiday LED light I bought and have been using. I took it from outside on the the porch, looking into the kitchen. The dog thought I was being very strange.

Glowing Blue

 

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12-31-13:

Okay, here's my last posting for the 2013 Project 365! WooHoo! I made it!

Anyway, I snapped these this morning after I looked out the kitchen window and saw our neighborhood red squirrel (who we affectionately call Scrat) and a relatively new grey squirrel on the tree with the bird feeder. I grabbed my camera, went out on the porch and got these. Not bad for grab shots.

Scrat is back!


Squirrel in Motion Series










All photos were taken with my D3000, ISO 400, f/8, Nikkor 55-200 AF (non-VR) at 200mm. The shutter speed for the red squirrel was 1/800 while for all 5 grey squirrel photos, the shutter speed was 1/1250.