jgrussell – my world

We didn’t get the big snowfall we were forecast to get. We didn’t get very much snow at all. But then it rained on top of the snow… and got cold… and we got:

Evergreen ice drops

Holly ice drop

Holly ice drop

Still playing with the macro lens today — it is NOT easy to focus close up with this thing if it’s not on a tripod!

Snow

Clancy's eye

Yellow rose

Picked up a macro lens today and boy! Is it fun!

Rose

Peppercorns

Green flower

You’re not supposed to blow out the background of an image (technically, the whites here are TOO white and TOO bright). But sometimes it just works to disregard The Rules…

Bright leaves

Evergreen rain:

Evergreen rain

Evergreen rain 2

The office Christmas tree is still up, and it casts some interesting shadows and reflections on the wall:

Reflections on the wall

Then the controls of the copier machine are pretty neat too. First in color:

The copier

Then in black and white:

The copier B&W

Started out the day by taking a close look at Ciara’s back paw:

Ciara's paw

Then (sigh) it was back to work, where I found a geranium in Howard’s office:

Geranium

…and a coffee mug in Michael’s office:

Coffee mug

On the way home, I grabbed a quick shot of a fried chicken joint on Broad Street:

Broad Street, Newark

Took the 17-55 out into the backyard today to see what there was to see and decided to play around with light and depth of field.

First, the winter skies:

Winter skies

Then I decided I needed some winter color:

Winter color

And then I decided to play exclusively with depth of field:

Depth of field

Decided to get my lazy (and warm) self out into the fresh (and cold) air and got out to Liberty State Park this afternoon. It’s a beautiful location, just across the Hudson from lower Manhattan, with the Statue of Liberty on one side, Ellis Island as well.

The problem is that I got too many shots — it’s hard to pick just one for today!

First, I got to see some interesting birds, like a red-breasted merganser:

Red-breasted merganser

Then I got a decent shot of Miss Liberty as if from a rear view mirror:

Statue of Liberty - rear view

There were some gulls hanging around the parking lot nearest to the Statue of Liberty:

Ring-billed gull in evening light

Then I headed over to the area just across from Lower Manhattan where, always and forever, there is something missing from the skyline:

Something's missing...

While I was there, I saw a bunch of folks doing something I sure would like to do, especially as cold as it was out there today — they were leaving winter behind:

Leaving winter behind

Sigh… now what do I do for an encore tomorrow???

Reminder to self: do a better job of dusting small objects used for macro photos!

crystal owl