Fog mist and snow

PICT1457, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

The world seems bigger when you can't see as far. I guess the change makes me conscious of depth.
Recently a haze came over downtown that covered the tops of the tallest buildings. It made them look like skyscrapers, like in that cloud they ust kept going and going.
If this picture were pink I'd like it better.

Windown in St. Paul's Lowertown

Windown in St. Paul's Lowertown, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

This is an old picture, but I don't think it's quite right to imagine that any capture of my past could be necessarily re-done better just because I know my Aperture from my ISO now.
My friends say that it's all about your eye and perspective. I still want a new lens, however.

Rail Bridge 15 on Pickerel Lake

Rail Bridge 15 on Pickerel Lake, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

When I try to make a composite panorama, I don't look at what I am photographing in a very artistic way after I've decided what field of view I want to capture, I mostly think about if I've adequately covered that area of view yet. As a result, when I see the photos large, I am often surprised.
That's the benefit of just clicking, clicking clicking.
There is of course a benefit to setting up each shot carefully, but without manual focus there's only so much of that to be done.

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PICT0133.JPG, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

It's not the camera, it's the photographer.
However. Doing close up macro stuff, it's the focusing that makes the shot, and with a point and shoot, the focus is all out of your hands, and very touchy. So largely it's luck, or a willingness to hold up a little camera to its subject and take the photo over and over.

sepia cat

sepia cat, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

Digital StillCamera photo, no filters, just brownish lighting and brownish subjects.
To me this looks pretty slick, but it is a pet photo. I am not ashamed that I like my pet photos. Okay, maybe a little.

Monarch egg

PICT0011, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

I'm jealous of extreme macro photography, but even just what a standard point-and-shoot can capture can be evocative.
Moreso when I actually explain what you are meant to see, in this instance.

Peep-eye rose

PICT0005, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

Taken with a five dollar apartment door peephole lens fitted over my point and shoot's normal lens. I have misplaced or lost the apparatus, but there's obviously plenty of motivation for me to find it! Look how blurry, distorted, even discolored the background is! This is glass, but they sell Holga macro lenses for pretty cheap on ebay.