Saturday, March 16, 2013

Spring!

I think I mentioned in one of my Paris posts that my digital SLR camera died. At the very least, it's in intensive care. Unfortunately, I figured that out after lugging it overseas with the anticipation of taking some really great photos with it. I still got some nice photos, and am grateful for my little digital snapshot camera, but it really does just take snapshots. So I splurged and got a new DSLR. Today was the first day I've had a chance to take it out for a spin. We've had beautiful spring weather this week. Today was a perfect day - not too hot, the sun was shining. We went to Descanso Gardens and I am thrilled with the photo quality. I haven't even had to run one of these through Photoshop. From southern California to you - happy spring!













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  1. EllenMarch 18, 2013 at 6:16 AM

    BEAUTIFUL!! I love the colorful flowers, and the water, and I'm fascinated with the last photo and the focus on the--what is it? a frog? a beetle?--and how the grass stems on each side are out of focus but the creature in the middle has its eyes poking out, and well--amazing photography! Very nice. In fact, nice use of focus on all the pictures. Thanks for sharing.

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    1. LFPMarch 18, 2013 at 9:48 AM

      Thanks for the compliment, Ellen! The creature in the last photo is an amphibian of some sort - either a frog or a toad. I don't know the difference well enough to say for certain. It was about the size of my outstretched palm and very good at camoflauging itself. (I have a red squiggly line indicating that I've spelled that wrong, but don't know what the correct spelling should be.)

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