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Ken Bondy
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Even MORE Flowers
Diane's beautiful flower photos got me inspired:
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DianaT
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Dang, those are beautiful!!!!
Ken,
Do you use a macro lens---I have never used one and think I want one----I am on the learning curve and need lots of help and advice .
Thanks
Diane
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Ken Bondy
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Can't stop:
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jdtrotter
Dang, those are beautiful!!!!
Ken,
Do you use a macro lens---I have never used one and think I want one----I am on the learning curve and need lots of help and advice .
Thanks
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Thanks Diane. Yes, for flowers and bugs I use a Nikon 105mm macro lens with the Nikon closeup strobe outfit. It's a ring on the end of the lens onto
which you can attach two small wireless strobes in virtually any position around the lens.
++Ken++
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Roberto
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jdtrotter
Dang, those are beautiful!!!!
Ken,
Do you use a macro lens---I have never used one and think I want one----I am on the learning curve and need lots of help and advice .
Thanks
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What kind of camera do you have?
And, yes, macro lenses are required for quality flower shots, just like telephotos are pretty much required for nature (and portrait) shots.
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Sharksbaja
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Beautiful Ken, mucho gusto!
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
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Skipjack Joe
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Excellent Mr. Bondy! Really shows how delicate and yet so perfect they are.
Thanks for sharing. You haven't shown any of these before I believe.
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Barry A.
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Beautiful!!!!
The Anza-Borrego Desert State Park website is predicting a good wildflower display in the park this spring, with peaks being the first two weeks in
March. We plan on being there for the entire month of March, so hope they are right. 
We love Anza-Borrego, Borrego Springs!! 
Barry
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Natalie Ann
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These flores... oh so lovely, Ken. You've really captured their essence. Bravo!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
Beautiful!!!!
The Anza-Borrego Desert State Park website is predicting a good wildflower display in the park this spring, with peaks being the first two weeks in
March. We plan on being there for the entire month of March, so hope they are right.
We love Anza-Borrego, Borrego Springs!!
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Barry,
We are going out this Saturday, I will post a report.
Ken
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Ken Bondy
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Just one more, this time a cactus:
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tripledigitken
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Ken,
That last shot could pass for one of your underwater friends.
Keep um coming, great.
Ken
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Ken Bondy
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Ken - right you are. They could be urchin spines!
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Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower -but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Tennyson
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BMG
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Great flower photos
Here are some of my favorite so far. Taken at my father-in-law's house in Sonora.
Here's a few from Buchart Gardens
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Pompano
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A lily pond..
...at an amigos rancho a few moons ago. Mismo tranquil y a good place for ranas (frogleg dinners!).
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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I'll jump in with a "posterized" treatment in photoshop of a flowering cactus with 2 colors on the same plant.
Ken
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Natalie Ann
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Mexican Salvia - Limelight
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Roberto
| Quote: | Originally posted by jdtrotter
Dang, those are beautiful!!!!
Ken,
Do you use a macro lens---I have never used one and think I want one----I am on the learning curve and need lots of help and advice .
Thanks
Diane |
What kind of camera do you have?
And, yes, macro lenses are required for quality flower shots, just like telephotos are pretty much required for nature (and portrait) shots.
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Have a Canon SLR and forget the number. In the days of film, I never learned anything about photography---strictly had simple 35mm Ricoh fully
automatic. Even with my new digital, I had to attend a couple of simple classes to even learn how to change the camera from automatic to other
settings.
Now I want to learn and am learning so much from the great photographers on this forum----next lense will be a macro, except I want a better
telephoto--
Someday, rather than snapshots that I hope tell a little bit of a story in Baja, I hope to capture a few good photos.
These flower pictures are art and I love looking at them---all of them!
Diane
[Edited on 2-28-2008 by jdtrotter]
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
I'll jump in with a "posterized" treatment in photoshop of a flowering cactus with 2 colors on the same plant.
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Wonderful, Ken. I didn't know you could do that with photoshop. That's amazing. Someday you will have to show me how you did that.
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