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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. - Plato
I got three nifty new lenses from photojojo. I think the founder has leukemia, so it's a good time to buy something. Or donate. The macro lens is a prize, truly.
I say "or donate," but I'm having trouble donating to everything: friends and kickstarters, three of them, have gotten more than a hundred bucks from me in the last year—before I even had a job; two radio stations got money from me; the homeless guy on Northern Parkway gets me every so often (I'm going to start giving him Medifast bars, though); work gets me, too—with Jeans Passes for the American Heart Association.
And pretty soon, I might be asking for money yet again. I just got a poetry chapbook accepted for publication, and pre-pub sales will start soon. That's how they know how many to print.
But buying something—that's good for everyone, right? Everyone gets the prize. Everyone feels good. Well, better. The economy perks up a little.
Eh, what do I know? Here be a leaf. It's my true beleaf system.
We had our first drizzles of fall today.
Bitter: It's sad to see summer become a memory with fall well on its way.
Sweet: I can't wait for the leaves to start turning red and orange and yellow.
Thurs. the 20th and just a quick break outside and added another 10 clicks and calling it a day.
D90...Kiron 105mm f2.8 Ai macro manual lens.
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It's grey and rainy at the moment, but this was taken a couple of weeks ago when it was still sunny.
Macro photo of the bottom side of basil leaf shot against the light. The ratio is 1.5:1. I used 65mm of extension tubes for this photo.
Part of a series of 108 Fall Leaves photo project in support of Yasodhara Ashram's Young Adult Program.
Everyone who makes a donation to my project will receive a high-resolution digital copy of a leaf photograph of their choice for personal use (make it your desktop photo or print it and frame it).
If you like to support this project, please visit goo.gl/NBNauo
Taken for Active Assignment Weekly - Backlighting
I don't always do this but this one really is better large and on black
WIT: I broke out the SB600 for this one and set it up a few feet behind the leaf. I held the leaf so it was blocking the flash from the camera and shot. It is cool how bright it looks, almost seeming like the flash was in front of the leaf rather than behind. Then in Lightroom 2 cropped and used the High Contrast B&W preset.