Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Season Opener

By: In: Gardening, Off Season

I had my first BLT of the 2011 BLT season. Yes, I view the eating of BLTs as a seasonal thing. Why is that you may ask?

Brandywine Tomato Slices fresh from our  garden

Brandywine Tomato Slices Fresh from ourGarden

What you do not see is two slices of bacon busted up into four pieces, they are covered by tomato slices and the lettuce.

You see, I only eat BLTs with tomatoes fresh from the garden. From now until October The Wisconsin Snow Bunny and myself will only be eating garden fresh tomatoes.
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RIP Baby Lupine

By: In: Gardening, Media, Off Season, Outdoors, Photography

Baby Lupine

Germinating Lupine

And its all over baby lupine.

What this image is, is a lupine flower just after it germinated and is one of a set of three seeds that germinated (out of about eight total). The photo was taken using my 50 mm macro lens and today I do not have the exif data immediately handy (DigiKam is having problems) so I can not tell you about the exposure. However, the photo is about as close as I can get, the full sized full resolution photo is incredibly detailed and he hairs (in the center of the sprout) you can barely see are very large, in focus and reveal, incredible detail. However, I do not want to give you too much, but look below for a snippet of those lupine hairs! The other piece of legacy equipment was my Benbo tripod and I used the delay timer to trip the exposure.

Lupine Hairs

The Fine Hairs of the Lupine

This image is not scaled up at all, but it is clipped out of the full sized full resolution image. The detail is incredible and this is one reason I just love macro-photography, there is so much to explore at the minute level.

Why the RIP?
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Sony A55 — My First Published Photograph

By: In: Gardening, Media, Off Season, Outdoors, Photography

I don't know, must've been the roses

Don Juan

This is the first photograph I am publishing from my Sony A55. The exif data shows the shot to be using my 70-210 mm F/2.8 lens zoomed out to 210 mm (315 mm 35 mm equivalent) and the camera choose ISO 1600 as its sensitivity, and the exposure is F/9.0 with a shutter speed of 1/30th of a second. The photo is handheld and is taken from about 8′ above the bloom. The straw is a bit out of focus which is good, as the subject is the rose itself.

I have scaled down the photograph quite a bit and when the photograph is at full size the amount of detail visible in the rose is incredible. However, you need to settle for a 300×278 watermarked photograph. It isn’t the greatest photo, the bloom is the first one coming out a less than ideal growing conditions and is not so much a thought out composition, but just a shot taking the new tool for its first spin.
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