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.

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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Bee Macro Close Up Pictures

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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

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

Harbour Bridge at Night

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

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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Sydney at Night Pictures

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Around 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!

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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Ferrari Reflections

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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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Las Vegas Sunrise

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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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OH: Overheard – Toilet Art

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

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Round of Sambuca Shots

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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 my Canon 5D with a 16-35mm ultra wide angle lens, the second one is made with my Canon Powershot SX210 IS.

Picture details: Exposure: 0.008 Sec (1/125); Aperture: F/5.6; Focal length: 35mm; ISO speed: 400

Picture details: Exposure: 0.002 Sec (1/500); Aperture: F/3.1; Focal length: 5mm; ISO speed: 400

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Sunset – Fall Colors in October

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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 want to loose this opportunity. Although last time when the grasshopper flew away, the little insect was about 3 times bigger than this little fellow, with Macro you can still get good shots and makes the grasshopper look big! Especially if you post process the image, and crop to a much better focus on the subject.

Picture made by Dennis Goedegebuure with a Canon 5d, 100mm Macro lens. Exposure 1/60, Aperture f/4.0 Focal length 100mm, ISO speed: 400, with flash

Picture made by Dennis Goedegebuure with a Canon 5d, 100mm Macro lens. Exposure 1/60, Aperture f/4.0 Focal length 100mm, ISO speed: 400, with flash

Just look at how the little grasshopper is smiling at himself in the window…

More pictures can be found on my Flickr photo stream

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Grasshopper Macro Close Ups

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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 attic of my apartment in Amsterdam. Between the garbage, collectible records and old 80’s clothes were all my old pictures. Over the last couple of weeks, when I was spending my vacation in The Netherlands, I finally got the chance of cleaning up the attic. I also got the chance of taking my pictures and the negatives with me to the US. With my new Canon CanoScan 9000F, I can scan all negatives directly on highest resolution onto my computer.

One of the old collectible pieces of paper I found was a picture from the now almost bankrupt Dutch newspaper: “Het Parool”. Here you see one of my best friends Brian and me, taking designer Marina Prokopiva on our shoulders just after she presented her fall- & winter collection. Brian and I had walked in the fashion show, where we had more fun than being serious.

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Scanning Old Pictures

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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 up shots with my Macro lens. Check out my Bee Close up pictures.

All of the pictures below are made with the Canon 5D 12.8 mega pixels, and the Canon 100m F2.8 Macro lens. Anybody who would like to reprint these pictures, or use these commercially, please use the contact form to write me.

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Bee Close Up Photo’s

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