Zinnias At Sunset

There's a couple main reasons I garden. The first is because the peace and beauty out there is immeasurable. The second reason I garden is because I grew up working in the garden. It "takes me back". (Not to mention I love the taste of fresh vegetables!) The other evening I was working in the … Continue reading Zinnias At Sunset

Fall Plantings

I mentioned yesterday working on my fall garden. As I've also mentioned here that I have a surgery coming in about a month. My goal is to have the garden ready by then. I've started some seeds in my seed starting tray and planted some late warm season cover crops. In this I have planted … Continue reading Fall Plantings

The Silage Tarp

I'm trying to get a fall garden ready. One of my favorite tools in the garden is my 30'x40' silage tarp I bought several years ago from Hoss Tools. It's a great tool for covering a large spot of ground where you want to start a garden and let the sun get rid of the … Continue reading The Silage Tarp

Star Trail Photography

This is probably my favorite photo of the week. It is the combined photograph I mention in my Milky Way post Monday. On this type of setup I ran my camera with my cable release for about an hour then stitched the photographs together using Photoshop. It is a bunch of photographs but I enjoy … Continue reading Star Trail Photography

Watching The Sunrise (surprise!)

On Friday morning I like to go out to Lake Monticello to walk and take photographs. This past Friday was overcast so I did not even get my camera out but just walked close the truck in case it rained. As I walked I saw some light on the Eastern horizon and thought it might … Continue reading Watching The Sunrise (surprise!)

Long Exposure Photography With Moon Light

A few mornings ago I went for some more long exposure photography with a decent amount of moonlight over me. This was at Lake Monticello. I tried (not crazy about the results) some light painting from the dock too.

Photographing The Milky Way

The posts this week will follow the common theme of long exposure photography again. I setup for a special type of combined photo (which I'll post Thursday). Before I left to go home I turned my camera to grab a photograph of the Milky Way. This is the setup I mentioned in last week's encouragement. … Continue reading Photographing The Milky Way

Watching A Storm Come In

Last Sunday evening I wanted to try for two different photo setups. First I wanted to try to get a hummingbird photograph then I wanted to fly my drone for the first time in a while for a sunset photograph. I setup for a few minutes to try for a hummingbird photo but it was … Continue reading Watching A Storm Come In

More Birds and Butterflies

Ok, no bees or hummingbirds on this setup. After the setup which I've already posted from these past two days I put some bird feed out in a different spot close to my garden with the hopes of catching a few birds eating the seed. As I waited I kept seeing butterflies and moths behind … Continue reading More Birds and Butterflies

The Target: Hummingbirds

I mentioned yesterday having a particular photograph I was looking to get. While I've setup near my garden taking pictures of birds and whatnot I'd see hummingbirds around my Zinnias but could never get a photo. This time I setup closer and tried to keep my camera ready and pointed towards the Zinnias (but as … Continue reading The Target: Hummingbirds