Canon G7 X Mk II – /60, F/4, ISO 800, Eval Meter Another busy day today. Yard work was the priority. Took quite a while picking up sticks after the storms we had last week. Then weed whipping while Roxie mowed. We then performed annual maintenance on the lawn tractor. I knew what the PotD would be today when I woke up. You see, I was going to try something different in my Rec Teq grill – a Chicago Style […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/200, f/4, ISO 125, Eval Meter Today was a busy day. Guba was here in the morning and then we went to Becky and Ted’s for a cookout and visit. Today was unique though; the three pictures here were each taken with a different camera. The PotD was actually a collaborative shot (Roxie and I did one previously) between Steph and myself. I was laying in a hammock and realized I may have made […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/20, f/2.5, ISO 1600, Eval Meter This PotD took place later in the day. It was a really busy day, Work, John Deere Dealer, Lowes, Sam’s Club, Grocery, Guba visited, and then on to LBC for a family/Guba meal. During the meal, I took a bunch of photos. I took the pic of my grandson and Roxie with the G7 X set to auto. The shutter speed is 1/20 second. I took this picture […]

Today’s PotD was a random one. I originally was going to post a photo of some very old cast iron skillets we have, that I re-seasoned on my smoker. These are Griswold skillets, very rare, and very expensive now. But then I found a large, live, mosquito-type creature positioned on the outside door. It was at an awkward angle, and I couldn’t get the tripod out so those photos weren’t that good. Next up, Roxie and I went golfing. After […]

Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 100mm Macro – 3 Ext Tubes – MT 24EX Flash – 1/200, f/2.8, ISO 100, Eval Meter So it’s come down to this…I’m so desperate to take a good macro shot of a bug, I went out in search of one. And…I found this. Ok, I’m not really desperate, but I know better bugs are out there, I just need to secure one. I don’t know what kind of bug this was, but it […]

Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro – Two Einstein 640W Strobes – 1/200, f/2.8, ISO 100, Eval Meter This PotD was more challenging than it looks. I originally wanted to use a 50mm lens with a 20mm extension tube. I set up the flowers and all was well – until I hit the table the flowers were on. I just could not get those darn flowers to cooperate. And the depth of field was razor thin and […]

‘Serengeti’ Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/1000, f/6.3, ISO 125, CWA Meter Today was kind of a weird day, photo-wise. I originally intended to do another macro pic. Work got in the way, and then I went and played some golf, so I never got around to hunting for a proper bug. So here is a CALL-OUT to any of my ‘Fans’ – if you happen upon a dead bug, save it for me! Anyway, while I was golfing, […]

Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro – Two Einstein 640W Strobes – 1/200, f/8, ISO 100, Eval Meter Well I am able to access the website again. I suspect there was a problem on the hosting platform. Anyway, today was a macro day. It has continued raining today (it’s rained heavy all weekend) so I chose the guitar as my model. It’s kind of a boring picture – just the bridge of my guitar – but there […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – On-board Flash – 1/125, f/5.6, ISO 125, CWA Meter I am having internet problems today and I cannot access my site to upload the PotD from my home network. Sooo…I had to setup a hotspot on my phone which happens to have only one bar. This is painstakingly slow. The PotD happened as a spur of the moment type of thing. I went into the garage and a big box sitting on top of […]

Canon 5D Mark IV – EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro – 1/100, f/8, ISO 100, Eval Meter Today’s PotD is a macro shot of farm life – kinda. I picked up this little playset the other day to take some macro-type shots (this will eventually be re-gifted to some little kids I know). The horses and barn are new, the pigs you’ve seen before. I took this outside and set it up on my golf mat. I played around with the […]

GoPro Hero 10 Black – 30 sec, f/2.5, ISO 261, Average Meter This was my first foray into astrophotography, albeit the poor man’s version. I set my GoPro Hero 10 black to night time-lapse mode. I set the camera for a 15 minute time where it would take 16 pictures during that time, 30 second exposure for each pic. This was set up in the backyard facing east – southeast. I was amazed to see the focal length of the […]

GoPro Hero 10 Black – 1/240, f/2.5, ISO 173, Average Meter Note: This is an edited post. This is one of the few times I’ve changed a PotD after posting it. After thinking about it some more, I felt like the original PotD must be better. I grabbed the GoPro again and, this time, I set it closer to the ground. This time I set it for 15 minutes, while still capturing an image every 5 seconds. Look at all […]

iPhone XR – No Exposure Data This is a different kind of Photo of the Day. It’s a merge of two screenshot images of a message conversation between Roxie and I. We’ve had several golf related photos, and today is no different. I went golfing at a local par 3 course this afternoon. When I got there, it was 82 degrees with some clouds in the sky. When I got to the 6th hole, a small cloud appeared out of […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/200, f/11, ISO 125, CWA Meter Well today’s Photo of the Day was a first – It was a group decision! Voting took place on the two pics on this page and Andie’s hands playing in the water beads mixture was the clear favorite. The goat, while cute, doesn’t stand a chance against the granddaughter! We visited our daughter, son-in-law, and grandkids today. I brought along the G7 X as the primary camera. Once […]

Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 100mm Macro – One Einstein 640W Strobe – 1/160, f/20, ISO 100, Partial Meter The Photo of the Day was an experiment in macro bubble art. The idea is simple, take close up pictures of bubbles. The execution is a little more complicated. I “borrowed” some of my granddaughter’s bubble juice and put it in a blue shot glass. I set this on a black background. The camera was on a tripod, tethered to […]

Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 100mm Macro – 0.6 sec, f/2.8, ISO 50, Spot Meter Today’s Photo of the Day was a concept photo. I did a previous raindrop photo of daisy’s that I really liked. After that, I thought I’d try a photo with the grandkids and Mason. So this was a lot of work – over 3.5 hours. It’s a focus stack of 18 images. I started out by using a small piece of plexiglass but found […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 125, Eval Meter Well, well, well…look who’s back! Only this time the little piggies are playing in the grass outside. In all reality, it was a slow picture day. I do like the little pigs so I thought I’d take them out on the golf mat and try some macro with the G7 X. I set it up and the lens was about 2 inches from them. This has been an […]

‘Feeding Time’ Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro – Two Einstein 640W Strobes – 1/250, f/11, ISO 100, CWA Meter I was missing doing some indoor macro – not tiny stuff, but something unique. I went down into the basement and was looking for something, anything really, that could be different. I came across this little bag of pigs, it’s actually a game we played called ‘Pass the Pigs’, and I thought I might be able to […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/640, f/11, ISO 125, CWA Meter It seems the dog days of summer are here. Today was a bit of a struggle in taking a photo. I bought sweet corn a few days ago and as I was getting it ready to grill, I thought it might make a nice macro shot. But here’s the catch – after a full day at work, I didn’t feel like getting the 5D out with the dedicated […]

Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II – 1/80, f/4, ISO 100, CWA Meter In keeping with yesterday’s diving theme, here is a bit of nostalgia. We haven’t seen this for awhile here, but now that we’re diving again, this PotD might might be more common around here. After we dive, we lay our gear around the deck, and hang our suits and stuff up on a makeshift line to dry. Most of the magic for this photo […]

GoPro Hero 10 Black – 1/1250, f/2.5, ISO 100, CWA Meter Today was a good day. We are back into diving! We did two shakedown dives at France Park. 52 minutes and 50 minutes. Since we are so experienced (we have over 1000 dives between both of us), it was truly similar to riding a bike. Absolutely no effort involved. Buoyancy was great. I did decide to not take a camera underwater because I wanted to focus on diving. By […]

Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II – 5 Sec, f/11, ISO 50, Eval Meter Today was a very busy day. We had the pork shoulder smoking, Grandkids and son-in-law visited, lawn mowing, scuba gear organizing, etc, etc. It was also the day of the Brookston Fireworks so I thought I’d get a shot of the fireworks. The shot was taken about midway through the program. These shots are really easy now. However, you do need a tripod […]

Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 16-35mm L – 1/60, 5/6.3, ISO 800, Partial Meter I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, not every day can be artsy, or technical, or documentary, or whatever. Today was a day to just grab a pic – very busy with work, grocery, getting smoker ready for pulled pork, prepping the pork, and getting ready for Beave’s visit. However, I think I still took a great pic. It’s our Bella Bush (lilac). […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/60, f/11, ISO 320, CWA Meter Not an especially opportunistic day for photos today. Was busy working and doing other things. in all honesty, the PotD was almost an afterthought. However, in between golf practice and cleaning the grill, I managed to snap some photos. Since I prefer to hit golf balls and not clean messy grills, I opted for a photo involving golf. I chose the little G7 X since it is small […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/60, f/1.8, ISO 1600, CWA Meter With this PotD, I’m not quite sure I like the effect I was going for. I meant for the camera lens to be a reflection of what I was shooting. This is actually two photos with editing in both Lightroom and Photoshop. For the main photo, I set up the G7 X on a Gorilla tripod with the timer set to 10 seconds and shoot 3 pics at […]

DJI Mini 2 – 1/400, f/2.8, ISO 100, CWA Meter Holy Cow! The U.S. Drought Monitor Map has us in an Abnormally Dry area, but not a drought, yet. I looked at my weather station this afternoon and saw the temp was 99 degrees and the heat index was 119! In light of this, I thought I’d take the drone up to get a shot of my, once pretty, grass. The PotD is a pic of the backyard taken at […]

Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 16-35mm f/2.8L – 25 seconds, f/22, ISO 100, Eval Meter Happy 4th of July! Today went from what was going to be a bland PotD to something pretty exciting. Roxie and I changed out the overhead fan in our bedroom today, and that was going to be the PotD – a picture of an overhead fan. I know, right? I was going to take a time delay pic to capture the motion of the […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/1250, f/4.5, ISO 125, Eval Meter Today’s PotD is unique in that it was a two-person collaboration. I set up the camera, and Roxie took the pics. We went golfing today and I brought along the trusty G7 X. I was hitting it off the tee pretty good today. This was a par 3 at hole #9 and I’m using a 6 iron. I set up the camera for high speed continuous shooting, positioned […]

Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 16-35mm L – 1/250, f/2.8, ISO 100, Partial Meter Today we woke up to a heavy fog warning. I believe this is the earliest I’ve taken a PotD; this was at 0730 hours. I got up and went on the back deck and was amazed how thick the fog was; I hadn’t seen fog like this since 1985 and I was at Castle AFB in California. Visibility appeared to be only a couple hundred […]