Jon's Pictures

This was my first stab at using the two macro tubes Lindsay gave me for Christmas. Stacking them together turned out to be ridiculous; anything I wanted to shoot had to be touching the lens filter before it came into focus! But while I had fun playing around with them individually, I found it a real challenge to keep focus on the object, due to the extremely narrow depth of field. Any breath of wind or any movement on my part completely changed the image. Do you guys have any suggestions for avoiding this? All I could do was take multiple shots and pick the best afterwards. A tripod would be a help, of course, but for this shot I was lying on the ground and shooting up into the flower. Thoughts?

I tried two approaches to capturing this, and I’m not sure either work as well as they might .  What do you think between these two?

I’ve been posting a few shots from our garden on FB and IG lately.  Could I get some feedback on these two?

Down at Portland’s exquisite Japanese Garden, I took this head-on shot of the seed head of a grass.  I’m still trying to work out if I could have improved it with greater depth of field, or by including another seed head on a diagonal to give some idea of what it really was.  The later is obviously a composition issue, and I didn’t have a tripod with me so couldn’t do much about the former, but what do you think?

While waiting for the total eclipse in Warm Springs, OR, we explored a short nature trail around the edge of the meadow where we’d set up.  I was very taken with the play of light on the grasses here; what do you think?

Two racing eight crews practice on Lake Washington while traffic streams by on I-90.