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Annual Snorkeling Trip to La Jolla Cove
Having grown up in Southern California, I fell in love with snorkeling when I was a kid. I probably snorkeled for the first time in Hawaii, but I didn’t fall in love with it until later when I was older and we went snorkeling at La…
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Sweet baby hummingbird
My birthday is next week, and I found an awesome deal on a zoom lens for my camera. I found it at Target for only $99. It is a Canon EF 75-300mm zoom lens. Today I had my first chance to see how well it works. We…
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Spider web trial
I have been trying to get a good picture of a spider web for a while. When I was out for a morning walk, I ran into this web. It was not easy to capture. I had to go back to the house and get a step stool and a water squirt…
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Tutorial on how to blur the background of a picture
I have taken some good pictures, but sometimes the background is too focused and distracts from the close-up of the subject matter. You can blur the background in photoshop, and I will walk you through the steps. I am using photoshop…
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More pictures from class
Here are some more pictures from the photography class.
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My Favorite Pictures from the third day
Here are my favorite pictures from the third day of my photography class.
A fern that is unfurling.
An ant on a flower.
Another Banana Slug.
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To Flash or not to Flash
I still don’t know whether it is best to use flash indoors or not. Here are two pictures that I took of the same thing. The first one I used flash and the second I did not.
I think that I like the one with flash…