Pictures

On a beautiful like today, Labor day, a perfect day to practice with my Macro lens taking close up pictures of the insects in our garden. And since the Mint has plenty of blossom, there are bee's flying off and on to grab the honey out of the flowers.

See here the results of around 100 shots with my Canon 100mm f/2.8 lens, taken with a Canon 5D.

Bee close up

Close up picture of Bee on Flower

Bee super close up

Bee close up

Bee close up pictures

honey drinking bee close up macro pictures

macro pictures of bee drinking honey from flowers

You can look at larger versions of these pictures  by clicking on the picture. I also posted these pictures in the Macro album on both Google+ and flickr. These pictures are posted under Creative Common license 3.0. If you would like to use one of these pictures, feel free, but credit the picture with the code below:

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My last day in Sydney Australia, and it’s a full moon. So no better chance of taking some nice night pictures from the Sydney Skyline, the full moon above the Opera House, or the Harbour Bridge.

Full Moon over the Opera House

Full Moon above the Opera House in Sydney Australia

Although it was cloudy, the moon peeked through the clouds once in a while, and made a really nice light effect on the water.

Full Moon above the Opera House in Sydney Australia

Harbour Bridge at Night

From across the harbor, you have a good view to shoot a nice panorama picture of the Harbour Bridge.

Panorama shot of Harbour Bridge at night Sydney Australia

Dennis in front of Harbour Bridge Sydney Australia

Sydney Skyline at night

Sydney Skyline at night

The Sunset over Sydney was wonderful. Unfortunately I was late for the sunrise as it is also pretty spectacular to see the sun rise above the Opera House. Next time maybe….

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Reflections on a PorscheAround 8 months ago, I came across a picture on Flickr I really liked. The picture was showing an almost perfect reflection of a couple of houses on the hood of a Porsche. You can see the picture here on the right, which is published under creative commons on Flickr. Source: fs999.

I always like to make reflection photo’s myself, which is among the reasons why this Porsche picture is one of my favorites on flickr. Today, I was able to make a somewhat similar photo of reflections of a building in San Francisco not on a Porsche, but on a black Ferrari. Quite cool I would say!

Reflections on a Ferrari

Ferrari reflections

The Ferrari was parked on Powel street, in front of the St Francis Drake hotel in San Francisco.

Too bad I didn’t carry my fish-eye lens with me.

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View from my room at the Encore hotel & resort this morning of the Sunrise over Las Vegas.

I should have been taking more time to make pictures, as it can be very beautiful in the desert around sunrise and sunset.

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OH: Overheard – Toilet Art

October 24, 2010

On Twitter, the short code for a quote you overheard is OH. There are two quotes I recently heard I would like to give a longer lasting attention then just a Tweet: Let the Dataset change your Mindset And seen on some toilet art Women like silent men. They believe they are listening.

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Round of Sambuca Shots

October 21, 2010

Shot of a round of Sambuca shots in a random bar in Zurich Switzerland last week.

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Sunset – Fall Colors in October

October 2, 2010

It’s October, which means you can shoot wonderful sunset pictures and work on these to get some nice color in the sunset through post processing. Here are just two of my last shots which I made on Friday October 1st, bottom picture, and today October 2nd, the top picture. The top one is made with [...]

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Grasshopper Macro Close Ups

September 20, 2010

Tonight I got the chance of shooting some macro pictures of a Grasshopper sitting on our kitchen window. I needed to shoot the pictures with a flash because I had no time to set up a tripod as I was afraid the grasshopper would fly away. Last time, I was too late, so I didn’t [...]

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Scanning Old Pictures

July 19, 2010

Four years ago, when I left The Netherlands to move to the US, I hardly took any time to sufficiently clean up all my old mess. In just two weeks I moved the majority of my stuff onto a boat to be shipped for the US. I left a bunch of old stuff in the [...]

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Bee Close Up Photo’s

June 18, 2010

Last weekend I checked the lavender plants in front of our house. It was a busy come and go of the bees collecting honey. Dozens of worker bees were flying between the purple flowers to suck the nectar out of the flowers. I decided it was time for me to try to make some close [...]

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