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Today, I finally got around to uploading some interesting shots from the month of December:

I also took a walk around Arrowhead Lake. The ground was frozen and covered with a lot of snow. I took all of these pictures with my new ultra wide lens. It’s great to hike with because it weighs next to nothing. I didn’t really edit any of these pictures. The great blue sky came right out of the camera!

We’ve got sun today! While at lunch I finally got a chance to test out my new ultra wide angle lens.  Here is an example:

The cool thing about this shot is that I didn’t do any retouching other than resizing the image. This new lens seems to have a natural polarizing effect, and it does great things to the color of the sky. Otherwise, this is not a particularly enticing image. .. More will be forthcoming.

In addition, here is a recent macro shot:

I didn’t use my wide angle lens for this. It was taken with my 70-300mm lens with a 1.4x teleconverter and a 4.8 diopter close up lens added. I hand held the camera and lit the subject using 2 flashes… One on the left bounced up, and directly from the right. If you don’t recognize it, it is a 20 dollar bill.

I finally bit the bullet and got myself some nice tripod legs. Before now, i settled with my crappy ones, and borrowed Peter’s when I needed something nice. I purchased the Velbon El Carmagne 640. It is great. It weighs just over 3lbs, but is very stable. I experimented with some macro shots tonight:

These shots were editing in Adobe Lightroom. I did some minor exposure correction, and sharpening. I also added a vignette effect to the first image.

Most of these images are outtakes from my quest for “round”.

This gallery is mostly macro shots from the past week. Most images were from this afternoon’s walk:

There are some really random things in this group:

Here are more pictures from this weekend. There are flowers, and more pictures from my classic camera collection.