Here are some shots from our last bike riding excursion at Caumsett State Park in New York. 

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I’m completely stuck on photographing flowers lately.  Word of advice: Do not go to the Old Westbury Gardens on a scorching hot summer day.  It will not be fun.

This first one I decided to title Neglect.

EXIF: ISO 200 | 50mm | f/2.8 | 1/4000sec

Father and Son. There are actually two versions of the following photo: the first one is cropped and has been converted to black and white with selective coloring (which I know some people absolutely detest), and the other is, well, not, lol.

EXIF: ISO 200 | 50mm | f/2.2 | 1/1250sec

White Rose.

EXIF: ISO 200 | 50mm | f/2.2 | 1/1600sec

The following photos don’t have titles, neither do I know what their names are.  A botanist I surely am not!

EXIF: ISO 200 | 50mm | f/2.2 | 1/1250sec

EXIF: ISO 200 | 50mm | f/2.2 | 1/1250sec

Why flowerworks instead of fireworks?  Well, just scroll down and you’ll see.

Happy Fourth of July!

Note: I wish that I had either been farther away from the fireworks and not right under them or that I had a super wide angle or even fisheye lens.  Oh well.  From my vantage point, I was able to capture some interesting shots with the long exposures, but I was unable to capture both the horizon and the fireworks..  Some of the photos I took remind me more of light art than fireworks.  Next time though, I’d like to capture the glowing scenery under the fireworks… I’ll have to plan a little better in the future so that I can get those shots that I really want.

EXIF data is posted beneath each photo.

ISO 200  |  28mm  |  f/13  |  4.0sec

ISO 200  |  28mm  |  f/16  |  5.0sec

ISO 200  |  28mm  |  f/13  |  2.0sec

Yesterday the family and I enjoyed a relaxing and beautiful breezy afternoon at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, NYC. 

We went in the middle of the afternoon, so although the day was absolutely gorgeous, I was stuck with the harsh, blinding afternoon light that photographers are less than enthusiastic about.  So in order to take full advantage of the flower taking opportunities presented at the world renowned New York Botanical Gardens, I decided to try a few “flower in the sky” silhouette photos.

Armed with my trusty 50mm f/1.8, I got low low low and shot upwards.  My only peeve is that I wasn’t using a macro lens!  (which is on my photography wishlist!)

Both my boys absolutely love the beach!  Unfortunately, it’s getting harder and harder to get my older son, who’s going to be entering preschool in September, to let me take photos of him.  Sigh, well at least my toddler isn’t camera shy

The following photos were both taken in Aperture priority mode and then processed minimally in Lightroom to add a bit of fill and to remove spots. (Awesome things the ocean spray does to camera glass, eh?)  For the second shot, I only wish I had kept his entire hand in the frame!  Considering how fast he is though, I consider myself lucky to have gotten the shot at all.

ISO 400 | 28mm | f/9 | 1/640sec

ISO 400 | 28mm | f/9 | 1/800sec

iPhone + PS Mobile App

Remember those days when you had not one care in the world, and every ride down the slide and every journey across the monkey bars was an adventure?

iPhone & Photoshop.com Mobile App

iPhone | Photoshop.com Mobile app

I was driving out of a parking lot today when the western sky caught my eye, and I just had to stop and take this photo on my iPhone.

iPhone | Photoshop Mobile App

This iPhone photo was taken while my children and I were waiting patiently for my mom, aka Grandma, to finish shopping at Sephora… I never realized how long the wait could be when I wasn’t the one shopping!

iPhone | PS Mobile