kotay.net - Keith - Photography - Landscape & Nature - 2007 Spring And Summer

Quote of the day: "Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose--and you allow him to make war at pleasure." --Abraham Lincoln

These are photos I took from April 2007 through July 2007 (during August I was traveling in the western U.S.). Through mid-June most shots were taken with my Olympus SP-350 camera. Around the middle of June I discovered that my Sony DSC-R1 is actually a great close up camera, when coupled with the Sony HVL-F32X flash. The flash allows shutter speeds of 1/400 second and faster, which enables me to hand hold the camera & tripod combination. Although the closest focus distance of the R1 is around 0.4 meters, with the lens at maximum focal length the magnification is acceptable. Once I realized that the R1 could do close up photography (with better image quality than the SP-350), I purchased the Sony VCL-M3367 close up lens to reduce the minimum subject distance. After mid-June almost all photos are from the Sony R1.

Note: Images labeled "Virtual Painter" were created using Virtual Painter 5.

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Monarch Chrysalids 4/22 Olympus SP-350	Monarch 4/23 Olympus SP-350	Waves 5/6 Sony DSC-R1	Begonia Bloom 5/9 Olympus SP-350
First Bloom 5/17 Olympus SP-350	Marigold Bloom 5/26 Olympus SP-350	Past & Present 5/29 Olympus SP-350	Snake 5/29 Olympus SP-350
Moth 5/30 Olympus SP-350	Tiger Swallowtails Puddling 5/30 Olympus SP-350	Needles 6/12 Sony DSC-R1	Damselflies I 6/13 Sony DSC-R1
Damselflies II 6/13 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly I 6/13 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly II 6/13 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly 6/15 Sony DSC-R1 + VCL-M3367
Dragonfly 6/15 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly Impasto 6/15 Virtual Painter: impasto Sony DSC-R1	Flower Impasto 6/15 Virtual Painter: impasto Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly 6/16 Sony DSC-R1
Flowers 6/16 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly I 6/21 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly II 6/21 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly III 6/21 Sony DSC-R1
Damselfly IV 6/21 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly I 6/22 Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly I Impasto 6/22 Virtual Painter: impasto Sony DSC-R1	Damselfly III 6/22 Sony DSC-R1
Dragonfly I 6/22 Sony DSC-R1	Fly 6/22 Sony DSC-R1	Begonia Bloom 6/25 Sony DSC-R1	Begonia Bloom Gouache 6/25 Virtual Painter: gouache Sony DSC-R1
Damselflies 6/27 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly 6/27 Sony DSC-R1	Butterfly II 6/28 Sony DSC-R1 + VCL-M3367	Butterfly III 6/28 Sony DSC-R1 + VCL-M3367
Dragonfly II 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly III 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly IV 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Vines I 6/28 Sony DSC-R1
Vines II 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Vines III 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Vines IV 6/28 Sony DSC-R1	Mantis 6/28 Sony DSC-R1
Dragonfly Impasto 6/29 Virtual Painter: impasto Sony DSC-R1	Berries 6/29 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly I 7/7 Sony DSC-R1	Dragonfly III 7/7 Sony DSC-R1
Dragonfly V 7/7 Sony DSC-R1

Note: Images labeled "Virtual Painter" were created using Virtual Painter 5.