I recently got a new toy, a new Fisheye lens of the minimal 4.5mm! The pictures you can make are just amazing. You even have to be careful not to get your own feet into the shots, while you make the photo. I bought the Sigma 4.5mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens for Canon. Here are some […]
Roses close up
After the Macro pictures of the flowers I posted a couple of weeks ago, I recently took new Macro pictures from some roses I bought for my wife when she returned from The Netherlands. I keep finding it difficult to get the whole subject sharp in the picture, but maybe that is the purpose of […]
Flower Close Ups
Today, just after a small shower, I took my camera to Dolores Park in San Francisco to make some Macro Photo’s of the fresh flowers in the park. I didn’t make that many, because there was quite some wind which made it difficult to focus on the moving flowers in the breeze. A couple of […]
Bay Meadows last day
Today was the last days for horse races at Bay Meadows in San Mateo. The oldest horse race track in California decided they were not going to invest into the new security measures for horses and jockey’s. A rich history of horse races is ending.
Flying Newspaper
In the movie American Beauty Jane and Ricky bond over camcorder footage of a plastic bag “dancing” in the wind, which Ricky considers the most beautiful thing he has ever recorded. Yesterday I saw this newspaper blown by the wind, picked up and flying at Dolores Park in San Francisco. I made some shots of […]