This photo was taken on a recent trip to Calabogie, Ontario... although I suppose it could have been taken anywhere. Unfortunately none of my wide-angle landscapes turned out. These little rusty bumps on a rail on the side of a bridge reminded me of warts. At first I tried taking macro shots of the 'warts', but they didn't turn out looking like much. On the way back I decided to focus on the chain link fence and let the bumps blur into the background. These ones turned out much better.

I took a bunch of photos very similar to this one right after a hard rain this summer. I was excited to view them, but every last one turned out blurry. Fast-forward a few months and I've managed to do a better job... if only because I made sure to take double the number of exposures this time!

A double post today! Partly it's to mitigate the fact that I'll be in Saskatoon for 10 days and won't be bringing my camera. I haven't decided whether to bring the portable hard drive or not... Probably not as I'm already drowning in worries about all of the things I need to take and will probably forget, and the fact that I am only one person and can only carry so much luggage. Partly I'm taking advantage of the fact that Blogger's upload mechanism seems faster than usual tonight, and partly I'm just bored and depressed and posting a pretty picture on the internet makes time stand still for a moment.

This shot was taken in my backyard a few days ago... Maybe even this weekend - I've lost track. I was experimenting with very shallow depth of field, and my ratio of misses to hits was quite high. Even the shots that were in focus often had blurry thick stems right in front of the subject that I somehow missed through the viewfinder.

I was going to post this to Red Bubble. Graem thought the Red Bubble crowd wouldn't care for it. I guess we'll never know, as the random number generator told me to post it here. He suggested that if I did post it to Red Bubble, its title should be "Ganglion".

I've noticed that my photos are starting to look "point-and-shooty"... or maybe "formulaic" would be a better word. I've been keeping my aperture set on f16 quite consistently for macro shots. I think it's a subconscious reaction to not having much time for photography. I want to guarantee myself a few "keepers", despite not taking many shots and not putting much effort into composition. I suppose it has worked to a certain extent. I've had a higher ratio of photos that were basically in focus, but nothing I could call beautiful or spectacular.

Today I forced myself to open up the aperture as wide as it would go. I'm fairly pleased with the results. I definitely took some photos I found interesting to look at. I did have a couple of shots that could have been amazing spoiled by blur... but I plan to retake them later or tomorrow when the light is different and I need a break from the books.