5D Mk IV – EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L II – 1/250, f/2.8, ISO 400, Eval Meter Well I’ve changed the Photo of the Day after posting a picture. The original post starts below and the original Photo of the Day was of the backyard crappy weather. No sooner had I posted that when I went upstairs and saw this fella sitting on the bird feeder. I grabbed the 5D and started taking pics through the window. There was reflection so […]

5D Mk IV – EF 70-200mm f/2.8L II – 36mm Ext. Tube – 1/250, f/6.3, ISO 800, Eval Meter Today I set out to capture nothing in particular. I went out on the back deck with the 70-200mm lens with the 2X extender attached. It was a nicer day, but still a little on the chilly side. I shot lots of pics of birds and squirrels, but then I saw a fly sitting in the sun. I first tried getting […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro – MT-24 EX Macro TwinLite – 1/200, f/6.3, ISO 100, Eval Meter As the day progressed, I really struggled with what the Photo of the Day was going to be. I went outside in the hopes of shooting something macro but it was windy, drizzly, and chilly – Spring is struggling to get here. I started with the Canon G7 X and was taking some macro shots. They looked good on the […]

5D Mk IV – EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L II – 2X Extender – 1/1250, f/5.6, ISO 200, Eval Meter The branch this bird is flying into once held a tire swing. Sadly, the branch died and broke off several years ago. However, a bird family has taken to calling it home and has built a nest in there. In the past, I’ve tried to get the drone up there to see inside, but it was too dark. Today, I set […]

‘Weeds’ 5D Mk IV – EF 50mm L – 1/160, f/5, ISO 400, Eval Meter Interesting day, photo wise. I started out the day playing around with the built-in flash on the G7 X and using the 2nd curtain sync. Took quite a few pictures actually. However, I then went and mowed the lawn. As I was mowing, I was amazed that some areas of the yard were so full of weeds even though we put fertilizer / weed killer […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/60, f/4.5, ISO 125, Eval Meter Today was what we have taken to calling a ‘Tweener’. It’s the day that is halfway between Summits – The quarterly meetings between the Bevis’ and the Collins’. The Tweener’s are shorter in duration – usually over lunch – and take place in Crawfordsville. Today, we held the meeting at the Creekside Lodge Restaurant. This meeting was focused on finalizing plans for Hawaii! It was quite fun and […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/2000, f/1.8, ISO 100 I’d been meaning to get a pic of the mailbox for awhile. Over the years, this mailbox has been the victim of many nighttime baseball bats (I presume) as it always seems to be beaten up. It’s also been hit by cars and errant snowplows over the years. Several months ago, I was driving by and saw it like this. Apparently the owners gave up fixing it. I don’t know […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm Macro – MT – 24EX Macro TwinLite – 1/125, f/32, ISO 100 This was a weird photo to take and process. I was looking out the window and saw that some of the bushes out front had bloomed. The wind was blowing about 15 mph so the bush was shaking steadily in the wind. I opted to cut off a single stem and bring it inside to photo under better conditions. As soon as […]

5D Mk IV – EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L II – 1/160, f/5, ISO 100, Eval Meter Nothing special about today’s picture. Except for the fact that I got a new golf net!! We are back in business baby! I went with a better quality net this time. This one should be easier to set up and take down (fingers crossed). Not sure I like this particular location. I’ll probably put it in the yard like before. Did some practticing today; […]

5D Mk IV – EF 70-200mm L – 2x Doubler – 1/640, f/5.6, ISO 1600, Eval Meter This photo was harder to take than it looks. First off, the bird just would not cooperate. Anytime I got remotely close, it flew away. Then I got a ladder and set it up in the driveway so I could elevate a little bit. With the 70-200 lens and the 2x Doubler, it is heavy. The doubler removes 2 F stops so the […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm Macro – MT-24 EX Macro TwinLite – 1/200, f/32, ISO 100 Roxie found a large feather in the front yard and posted a pic on our family text channel. However, I knew when I saw it that it had to be a Photo of the Day. I put the dollar bill there to provide some scale. The pic was an easy set-up: I put a weight on the stem of the feather (stem – […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/60, f/3.2, ISO 125 This was a shot from our room in the Drury Plaza Hotel during the Milwaukee Road Trip. This little PowerShot camera has a Scene mode called Miniature Effect that essentially mimics what a tilt-shift lens might do. We were on the top floor (15th floor) and this shot was obviously shot looking down. It appears that the camera adds a blur to the top and bottom of the image that […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/30, f/1.8, ISO 400 Gonna have to rush this out since we are in the middle of the renewed Milwaukee Road Trip. The last time Guba and I were here was in 2018 (I believe) – then the damn Covid hit and, oh well, you know the rest. In any case, we are here. The Photo of the Day is looking down a hall at Maders German Restaurant where they have numerous pictures of […]

CANON G7 X MK II – 1/800, f/1.8, ISO 125 The annual Milwaukee Road Trip is underway! I thought I saw this swimming pool in the movie ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’. Ok, not really, but thought this would make for an interesting shot for the Photo of the Day. In reality, once this pool opens up, it will be crystal clear. It’s still too early to open it so we’ll try to get a shot once it does. Should […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm Macro – MT-24EX Macro TwinLite – 1/125, f/11, ISO 100, Eval Meter It was a busy day today with lots of photo opportunities, but we’ll focus on what we did. This was the first lawn mowing of the Spring. I started by combing the lawn for sticks and branches – there was a lot! One of the things I found was this very large, unusual wasp nest. It is actually the biggest wasp nest […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm Macro – MT-24 EX Macro TwinLite – 1/200, f/5.6, ISO 400, CWA Meter It may not seem like it, but a few days ago I thought of doing this faucet and sink for a shoot. As it turns out, today was another crappy day weather-wise; cold, windy, and raining. So, in lieu of a Pulitzer winning photo, you get the bathroom faucet for the Photo of the Day. This pic wasn’t technically challenging, but […]

5D Mk IV – EF 100mm Macro – MT-24 EX Macro Twin Lite – 1/200, f/2.8, ISO 100, Eval Meter Spring is slowly, but surely, on its way. I was hoping to get a photo of the Magnolia tree in full bloom. After the freeze and snow we had yesterday, I didn’t know what effect the cold would have but those few flowers starting to bloom do not look very good. However, there are some that are still looking very […]

5D Mk IV – EF 70-200mm L II – 1/80, f/2.8, ISO 100, Eval Meter Ok, we woke up this morning to snow on the ground and this squirrel sitting on our front porch glider! This was a change of pace because, usually I have to think for awhile about what the Photo of the Day will be. Today, the first thing I did was grab the camera. I am hoping, and praying, that this is the last snowfall until […]

DJI Mini 2 – 1/500, f/2.8, ISO 100, CWA Meter It was cold and windy but I took the Mini 2 up for a quick proficiency flight. While up there, I thought why not take a pic of a tree from a different perspective? We usually look at trees from the side at ground level, or looking up. I decided to take one looking down, but close to the top of the tree. The tree in the Photo of the […]

5D Mk IV – EF 70-200mm L II – 1/1000, f/4, ISO 100, Eval Meter Well today we celebrated Easter one day early and the Easter Egg hunt (among other activities) was caught on camera. Andie and Colin had a blast hunting for the eggs. They are natural egg hunters – with a little help from their parents as evidenced in the Photo of the Day. The pics were taken outside during what could be described as the worst light […]

Canon 7G X Mk II – 1/1250, f/6.3, ISO 125 From a technical and compositional perspective, there is nothing special about today’s Photo of the Day. On second thought, I did take it with one hand from my sunroof while driving down the road going toward home. So that has to count for something! Anyway, this is supposed to be progress? We have lived in this area for 29 years, and there has never been a telephone pole on this […]

5D Mk IV – EF 50mm L – 1/1600, f/2.8, ISO 100, Eval Meter I got to thinking that when I took the picture of the stained glass and did the oil conversion that I could do better. In that Photo of the Day, I took the easy way out and only used the oil filter in Photoshop. In my opinion, it looked kind of fake, and I thought I could do better. Today, I went outside and gathered a […]

5D Mk IV – EF 50mm L with 20mm and 36mm Ext Tubes – 640W Strobe – 1/125, f16, ISO 100, Eval Meter So I have a 100mm lens that is designed specifically for macrophotography. I recently purchased a set of extension tubes that allows me to decrease the distance even more between the front of the lens and the object being photographed. Today, on a whim, I put the 36mm extension tube on the camera, then attached my 50mm […]

‘et non pas Monet’ 5D Mk IV – EF 70-200mm L II – 1/60, f/4, ISO 100, CWA Metering Today was an artsy day. Yes, this is an actual photograph. My original intent was to just photograph this stained glass up close, as I did for the original image below. However, I thought it would be fun to do an oil painting type of conversion. The image seemed ideal to do that because of the colors involved, and the background […]

The Day After 5D Mk IV – EF 16-35mm f/2.8L – 1/100, f/3.2 ISO 50, Eval Metering I walked out back with my camera and the very first thing that caught my eye was the empty swing and yard. Yesterday, this area was so full of life, vigor, and fun with the little kids swinging in the swing and laughing their hearts out. In the yard, people were practicing gymnastics and doing cart-wheels. Someone was even hitting gold balls! Today […]

5D Mk IV – EF 50mm L – SppedLite 580EX II – 1/200, f/7.1, ISO 50, Eval Meter Today was day 2 of our granddaughters mini-vacation so we continue with her as the Photo of the Day. I took many good photos while she was here; unfortunately, only a few can make it to this page. Here, she has a little blue swing that she loves. The weather was much nicer today and she rode in it multiple times. The […]

GOPRO HERO 10 Black – 1/950, f/2.5, ISO 100 I decided I’d try to do some pics with the GOPRO HERO 10 Black. I did a timelapse video last February for the snowstorm. Before that, I actually used it to take some pics indoors on Christmas Eve. I wasn’t impressed with the picture quality back then – I think it was more a function of low light with no flash and high ISO. Today was cloudy and off and on […]

PS5 – Horizon Forbidden West – f/64 Short write-up today. I am on the last mission of the open world game ‘Horizon Forbidden West’. This is the sequel to the first game ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’. This has been a great game and it is right up there with RDR2 as one of my favorites. It should be considered a masterpiece – the gameplay, graphics, and audio are phenomenal. In any case, since I’ll be done with it today or tomorrow, […]

Canon G7 X Mk II – 1/2000, f/4.5, ISO 125 I’ve taken a number of macro shots already, always with the 5D Mk IV, but this one is a little different. I went into town today and it was raining steadily. I’ve been taking my little Canon G7 X since it’s compact and is a great little travel camera. In looking at the windshield, I thought the raindrops on the glass might make for an interesting macro shot. When I […]

5D Mk IV – EF 70-200mm L II – 1/125, f/4.5, ISO 100, CWA Metering I had an opportunity to capture the elusive Mia today while napping on her homemade bed. It’s always a challenge when you are trying to shoot when there is strong backlight, and you are not wanting a silhouette, and you are not using a flash or strobe. In this case, I didn’t use any external lighting, it was strictly Mother Nature coming in the window. […]