Summer is here finally. It's been a busy month and hence I could not post earlier this month. When you live in a place which has 6-7 months of winter, you welcome the summers even more. There are parts of the world where the summers are too hot . Here at my place the summers are mild. Even, an 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26 degrees Celsius) seems like scorching heat. Anyways, for good or for bad the summers are here and so are the flowers trees, bees and the baby birds.
The first picture is of a Poppy flower with rain drops.
Aperture-F4
ISO- 100
The next picture is of the Tulip flowers. A few miles from my place is the city, Holland. Few Dutch settlers from the country Holland founded the city and a large percentage of people here follow Dutch traditions and culture even today. Such a cool way to preserve your culture. They even have a Tulip festival. The picture is from the Tulips gardens of Holland Michigan.
Aperture - F9.5
Shutter Speed - 1/60 secs
ISO- 100
This next picture is of the trees in my backyard which were snow capped in the winters and now every branch brimming with life. It's a refreshing site. The breeze has a melody - the melody of the summer and with every whiff of air you can smell the fragrant flowers. Lots of song birds have nests in these trees. It becomes the busiest place. The blue skies, the green rustling leaves, can bring life back into your life. With all the busy birds, I was also busy at home doing all the pending jobs which were back logged during the winters.
This summer I was in no case going to miss taking shots of the baby
birds, so one day I went in search of goslings and chicks. I found a few
and took lots of shots. Here is a shot of a gosling very close to me.
Aperture - F11
Shutter speed - 1/500 sec
ISO - 2500
This is all for now from me, but I have taken lots of flower pictures which I will definitely share with you in my coming posts. Hope you all are keeping yourselves safe in the summers by keeping hydrated. Have a great week!
Taking a picture in studio is like creating art, while capturing something in nature, or architecture or landscape is like capturing art. I like to do both the things but some photographers think that in studio pictures do not take much effort. It is more difficult to create than to capture , I believe. I say this because the past week I have been trying to create and for that you need fresh ideas and fresh mind, which were both not possible this week as I have exhausted myself with work. This is a random thought which came to my mind, anyway I was lucky to take a few pictures of the first snowfall we had this season. Here are a few...
In this picture I found a few leaves on the path leading to the woods which I thought would look good in SC.
Shutter Speed -1/60 secs
Aperture - 4.5
ISO - 125
As this was the first snowfall , there are a few brown, red leaves on the Oak trees even now. So this shot is of 8:00 am in the morning when the sun was lighting up the leaves on the top of the trees. The golden hour light is always considered the best time to take pictures outdoors. The pictures are soft and magical. I usually miss this time when I am not on vacation, which means I am working as this is the busiest time. That day I left everything and shot a few first snow pictures. It looked magical. Being a photographer you are blessed with such views and feelings. Very often you can just admire the beauty that surrounds us.
Shutter Speed - 1/60 secs
Aperture - F16
ISO - 100
This picture is of the snow on the deck. Just loved how the leaves are sitting there and the sun rays dancing it's way through the railings of the deck. You will be seeing a lot more snow pictures from me as it's here to stay for some four-five months. Hope you enjoyed the view too and hope you all will have a nice weekend.
Shutter Speed -1/20 secs
Aperture - F16
ISO - 200
