“Red Flower Macro” by R.L. Herron
“Macro Bellows” by R.L. Herron
I recently acquired a bellows attachment for my Canon 300-D. I have only fooled around with it a little, so far, but as soon as spring is here, I intend to be marching around with my tripod, making the bees nervous!
“Snow Day” © R.L. Herron
I guess I must be getting older. Winter shoots never used to bother me so much. Now, they’ve become a real pain. Particularly in my hands.
We have more snow this year than we’ve had in a long time, and it’s been bitter cold for a long stretch, too. It was three degrees outside this morning, only got to 12 all day, and it’s going to be pushing 10-below tonight. Far too cold to be out shooting pictures.
At least it is if I have to travel distance greater than the mailbox at the end of the driveway! The ache in my knuckles from the cold begins far too soon.
I’ve thought about shooting some “seasonal” photos. You know, shots taken from the same position, of the same subject, in all four seasons of the year. I’d be doing it too, if only winter weren’t so darn … wintery! Better start writing to keep warm!
“Lake Sixteen Sunset” © R.L. Herron
I originally wanted to write about a specific kind of camera I was collecting. However, I soon realized I already had a web site devoted to them, and an active forum about them. What, then, was I doing writing a blog?
Well, I think it comes down to a way of expressing creativity. I enjoy photography, always have. Minored in it in college, a long time ago. Played with it, off-and-on, for many, many years. I’ve gotten more interested in it again since I retired. I like being able to produce images that convey some sense of what I was feeling at the moment the shutter was tripped. Same thing with my writing. I have time to do it now.
I like the photo above, not because it’s anything spectacular, but because it captured that fleeting moment just after sunset exactly the way I wanted it to. And it’s particularly important to me in another way, one that isn’t evident just from the image.
It was taken on an evening when my son, a professional photographer who now lives more than twelve hundred miles away, was in town … and we were out together, talking about photography and shooting pictures … together.
You don’t see us together in the shot, but we were. And that’s what makes it special to me.
Ron Herron once worked for some of the world's largest ad agencies and a Fortune 10 corporation.
A multiple award-winning author, he blogs about the craft of writing and indie publishing.
He lives and writes in Michigan with his lovely wife and a mortgage that is finally paid.
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