One misty morning in November...

... on my way to work

There was no time for a real photo shoot - so I just stopped my car and took this picture with my Android mobile phone.

I love those misty mornings in autumn!

PS: I link this up to Our Beautiful World

Lightnings...

Another one of my "trial and error" shots:

 ... the next time I´ll set the focus to infinity, choose an aperture of about 8-11 and keep the shutter open for 15-30 seconds.... manual focussing didn´t work for me... anyway, it was a gorgeous experience and I´ll try to make it better next time! We never stop learning!

Have a nice day!

Be sure to be prepared!

One night in Croatia we saw sheet lightning in the sky for about an hour - I ran to the beach and tried to catch it with my camera - BUT - I was not prepared!
I did not know how to photograph lightnings and I forgot to take things with me that I would have needed, such as a small torch, my remote-control release etc.  ... I was  n o t  prepared for that -> huge mistake!
But neverless I like this one - even though it´s slightly unsharp... and trust me - I´ll be prepared the next time!

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Diamonds in the sky

Night photography is one of my newest passions... it gives the most surprising results!

My first try on star trails...

My next goal is a nice shot from the Milky Way... not as easy as I thought (focusing is tricky and there´s too much light in this part of the world at night)

Useful hints are welcome :-)

Some kind of photography

As far as I´m concerned – “photography” was always something I enjoyed while being in far away countries … my husband and I took hundreds of pictures on vacation in Europe, Asia or Central America and the Caribbean… 

In addition to that my sister in law gave birth to 3 amazing boys and I enjoyed taking pictures while they were babies and toddlers…

Since we do not travel that much any more and since our nephews are older now – I seemed to stop taking pictures regularly. In my opinion there was nothing interesting in my everyday life to photograph… furthermore I´ve a full time job, which keeps me away from the “good daylight” until it´s late and dim or even dark outside.

To be honest – I´d like to change that – NOW! So I´d love to incorporate photography a lot more in my daily life.

One evening last week – at about 9 pm , when I went out in the garden to turn off the lawn sprinkler, I instantly decided to give an unconventional idea from the  Digital SLR Photography magazine (March issue) a try: "Scanned still-lifes"

It was too dark and too late to take a picture of  the poppies in our garden, so I picked some withered stems and made a scan – I boosted colours and contrast and voilá – I managed to incorporate "some kind of photography" in my life that day – even if I did not use my camera.
This is my result – it took me 20min. from picking the stems to adding the watermark…. 

I´ll upload this to  http://jaymiblog.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/tuesday-tips-pics-polarizing-filter-for.html

 

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