5D Mk IV – EF100mm F/2.8 Macro – MT-24EX TwinLite – 1/200, f/32, ISO 100, Eval Meter This was a planned shot many days ago. I conceptualized it and then put it in the back of my mind to do this at a later date. I only took a handful of photos but the f/32 max aperture won out. The set up was the same as yesterday – 5D, macro lens, and TwinLite flash – that combo is a workhorse! […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm F/2.8 Macro – MT-24EX TwinLite Flash – 1/200, f/16, ISO 100, Eval Meter I know you saw this Praying Mantis 3 days ago; it was the PotD on Day 274. We’ll it’s still hanging around, but for how long? That’s why I decided to do another pic of it as the PotD. This time, I took the pic with the mighty 5D and the 100mm macro lens with the macro TwinLite flash. This was […]

iPhone XR – 1/620, f/1.8, ISO 25, Eval Meter In the past you’ve heard me say I don’t like taking pics with the iPhone and I still stand by that. However, today’s PotD surprised me. This is actually a merge of two pics, the left side of the truck and the right side of the hood. I had to remove one “blemish” in the sky, and the end result is pretty cool. The truck looks a bit elongated but that […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro – MT24EX Macro TwinLite Flash – 1/200, F/22, ISO 100, Eval Meter So this is what it’s come down to? A can of soup? Ha, just kidding! As I told Roxie, my audience has a constant need for original imagery, and I thought this would be a unique photo opportunity. After all, every day can’t be like yesterday’s Praying Mantis! This PotD is not what it seems. This can of soup is […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/250, F/5.6, ISO 125, Eval Meter Lots of excitement around this PotD. Ryan, Steph, and I were on the back deck and I was getting ready to run inside when Steph turned slightly and I saw a big bug on her shoulder. Needless to saw, emotions were running high when I told her to not move and that I had to go get the camera for the Photo of the Day! I went in […]

5D Mk IV – EF 16-35 F/2.8L – 1/60, F/9/ ISO 100, Eval Meter I took a picture on Day 155 form a similar angle; there’s lots of differences though. That one had my granddaughter in it. It was also a B & W. It was a handheld shot. Finally it was taken on June 6 before the crops started growing. This pic is a complementary photo to yesterday’s Harvest pic. While that one was taken with the drone, this […]

Harvest Time DJI Mini – Various Shutter Speeds, F/2.8, ISO 100, CWA Meter I’ve been waiting for this day for a few weeks. I have a few pics of farm work, notably Day 132 and Day 153. In those instances, it was the beginning of planting season. Here it’s the end. And with the current climate regarding food prices and availability, it is good to see our farmers in action. Here they are harvesting corn (could also be popcorn). The […]

5D Mk IV – EF 50 F/1.2 L – 580EX II SpeedLite – 1/200, F/9, ISO 100, Eval Meter As I’ve stated before, the PotD may have a tendency to be controversial. Today is no exception. I pondered taking this pic with and without the 75% and, in fact, took several pics of both. Ultimately I went with the 75% because I felt it added another layer of controversy and water cooler rumors. But first about the pic. Not hard […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/100, f/5.6, ISO 125, Eval Meter Right now, this is all that remains of our 110 ft white oak that we took down a few weeks ago. The stump was ground up this past Saturday and it left a tower of sawdust. I started this fire on Sunday afternoon and it has been going strong now for 48 hours. The sawdust was pretty wet but I think the winds have helped to keep the […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100 F/2.8 Macro – 640W Strobe x1 – 1/200, F/6.3, ISO 100, Eval Meter Well Fall arrived a few days ago and farmers are starting to harvest their crops. Our backyard is basically a very large field of several hundred acres. They rotate crops every year, and this year it is popcorn. I found a sample on the ground in our yard while mowing and thought this might make a good PotD. I decided today […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – On-board Flash – 1/320, F/6.3, ISO 125, Eval Meter My Partner in Crime is an expert Crocheter. However, multiple times in the past she has asked me to help untangle knots in the yarn. Today, she walked out with all her gear including her current project which so happens to be a dive blanket for me. Well, I couldn’t help but take this pic of a great tangle waiting to happen. Love her shirt! […]

5D Mk IV – EF 24-70 F/2.8L – SpeedLite 580 EX II – Pocket Wizard – 30 sec, F/4, ISO 100, Eval Meter Let me start out by saying this PotD ranks right up there as one of the stupidest shots yet. What started out as an easy shot became one of the more complex shots I’ve taken. But look at it! What is it supposed to represent? Here’s the backstory: I went to a few stores today. On the […]

5D Mk IV – EF 24-70 F/2.8 L – 1/40, f/6.3, ISO 100 Eval Meter I’ve been meaning to go here for quite some time and grab a PotD; today I did just that. This is the bottom of the Oakdale Dam. After yesterday’s fiasco of not liking any of the pics I took (there’s only so many pics available at home) I was resolved to do something different. My 24-70mm lens was ideal for this shot. I had the […]

‘A Sea of Dying Trees’ DJI Mini 2 – 1/640, f/2.8, ISO 100, CWA Meter This photo is an anomaly in more ways than one. First of all – full disclosure – I did not take it today. I actually took it on Day 260. I considered it as the PotD but I had so many good photos that day that I ultimately chose to not use this one. More on that later. This PotD is titled ‘A Sea of […]

‘Mast Event’ Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/125, f/11, ISO 200, Eval Meter I used an air blower and blew off our front porch two days ago. Fall officially starts on September 22, but Mother Nature wanted to get a head start. This is one of those years when we have a mass production of acorns.This is a normal phenomenon but it doesn’t happen every year thank God! I pulled this from Purdue University’s Forestry & Natural Resources Website: […]

iPhone XR – 1/250, f/1.8, ISO 25, Eval Meter One of the basic tenets of the Photo of the Day project is to familiarize oneself with many different image capturing technologies.As of Day 262, I have used a variety of platforms with two dominating – my 5D Mk IV and the G7 X. However, I’ve also used two drones, my GoPro, the Nest doorbell, and the PlayStation 5. This PotD happens to be the second time I’ve used my iPhone […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/100, F/2.5, ISO 125, Eval Meter Today was a difficult choice for PotD. It actually came down to two pics; one of Colin walking down the middle of the road, and one of Andie’s foot right by a snake. Both are PotD worthy – I went with the snake because, well it’s a snake and I don’t have a snake pic. Actually, the snake was in Steph and Ryan’s driveway and it appeared to […]

5D Mk IV – EF 50mm F/1.2L – 1/100, F/6.3. ISO 160, Eval Meter It was a busy day today! We have our grandson staying over, I was smoking a pork shoulder, mowed the lawn, and it was the Apple Popcorn Festival in Brookston. We set up the swing on the cherry tree and that is the pic that made the Photo of the Day. Interesting that I wanted a decent depth of field but I wanted to use natural […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/250, f/7.1, ISO 125, Eval Meter Interesting day photo-wise. Roxie and I went to a towing company to pick up the belongings of someone we know involved in an accident. Not gonna put any names or details in this post but the individual involved is very lucky they were not seriously hurt. What’s obvious about this accident is two things. 1) Not much damage to the front or rear but you can tell it […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm F/2.8 Macro – Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX – 11/200, f/32, ISO 100, Eval Meter I’ll make this quick – this is nothing more than a quick photo of the flowers blooming on the back upper deck. Roxie wanted a pic, today was super busy, it’s 8pm and we just got home, so here is the PotD. Just a reminder that not every day will be artistic, documentary, experimental, or something unique and different.

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm F/2.8 Macro – Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX – 1/200, F/9, ISO 100, Eval Meter Remember the Day 250 PotD? Well the spider is still on the upper back deck, and today I happened to see something in the web. I grabbed the camera with the macro lens and Twin Lite flash, along the tripod. I went up and was able to get pretty close (about 9 inches) without scaring the spider. I took a […]

5D Mk IV – EF 24-70 F/2.8 L – 640W Strobes (x2) – 1/200, f/6.3, ISO 100, Eval Meter This right here is 2,145 pages of the best military history I have ever read. It is a historical trilogy of the war in the Pacific from 1941 to 1945 by author Ian Toll. These three books I read in late 2019 and 2020 while I was retired the first time – at least the first two books. The Twilight of […]

5D Mk IV – EF16-35 F/2.8L – 580EX II SpeedLite – 1/10, f/8, ISO 100, Spot Meter Practice makes perfect. I need to redo a couple of rooms for a real estate project I recently. It’s not that the pictures are bad – they are exposed fine. However, I was so focused on exposure that I neglected to look for things that would detract – like a rug out of place. Anyway, this is good practice and that reshoot might […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/13, f/1.8, ISO 3200, Eval Meter Today was 21 years since the anniversary of 9/11. I was originally thinking I would do something related to 9/11. I’ve done flag pictures before and didn’t necessarily want to do another one – if you know me, you know I am a Patriot. After we got up, it was raining and kind of nasty so we decided we’d go see Top Gun Maverick. I basically started my […]

5D Mk IV – EF 16-35 F/2.8L – 580 EX II SpeedLite – 1/400, f/2.8, ISO 50, Eval Meter I use my smoker a lot. The usual pictures I have taken are generally of the food. Today I was smoking a cast iron pan filled with baked beans. I added onions, apple juice, brown sugar, and honey and put it in the smoker. As I looked at it, the smoke coming out of the stack caught my attention. I grabbed […]

5D Mk IV – EF 16-35 f/2.8L – 580EX II SpeedLite – 1/200, f/6.3, ISO 100, Eval Meter Cleaning day today. This is what a field stripped M4 rifle looks like. Thought I’d give it a good cleaning. It’s a beautiful rifle. As it was sitting on the table with the cleaning gear, I thought “why not make it the Photo of the Day?” I was glad the 16-35 lens was still on the camera because I needed the wide […]

5D, Mk IV – EF16-35 F/2.8 L – 580 EX II SpeedLite – 1/200, f/6.3, ISO 100, CWA Meter On Day 126 (May 6) i took a photo of some mushrooms growing on the east side of the house. That photo was taken with the G7 X. Today’s PotD is of two very tall and large mushrooms on the west side of the house. This photo was taken with the workhorse 5D Mk IV. I put the camera on my […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100 f/2.8 Macro – EX580 II SpeedLite – 1/200, f/3.5, ISO 100 CWA Meter I took a similar shot of a spider on the back deck on Day 169 (June 18). That one was a semi silhouette and the spider was much smaller. This one was HUGE – the size of my thumb although the picture doesn’t do it justice. It was pretty windy this afternoon and I took this pic in one shot (no […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/200, F/2.8, ISO 1600, Eval Meter This boy loves his yogurt. Before dinner was over, he had it in his hair and all over the left side of his head. This will be a quick post because I don’t have access to the site through the ComCRAPS network. I am on a one bar personal hotspot. I really have to figure out what is causing this. I went to help Roxie tonight with the […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm Macro – 640W Strobes x3 – 1/200, F/5.6, ISO 100, Eval Meter Today was an evaluation day. I downloaded and installed a trial version of competing Focus Stacking software – Helicon Focus. Today’s PotD is a composite of 17 images merged into one. The photo technique was the same as I’ve done with other similar photos; I won’t bore you with those details. My first impression with the software was that it was not […]