Miscellaneous recent photos

[summer_jackel]

Tidepools, graveyard ducks and one adorable spotted baby pony beneath the cut.

Eve and I spent some time in this really gorgeous graveyard in Oakland. Unfortunately, my camera batteries ran out too soon, but next time I'll take the DSLR and get better ones. I love the scene with this little mallard and the mausoleum pond.





The mallard hen. Awwww, I love dux.


Really pretty angel. This big stone had not one but two inscriptions regarding the rising of the dead. So this is obviously where the zombies are going to come from.


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Tidepool photos! This amazing pool was one of the loveliest, most colorful ones I have ever seen. Love the red sponges!








Sea anemones reproduce in a couple of ways...sexually, by releasing gametes, and asexually, by cloning themselves. I've never actually seen this happening until now. Check out how this giant green anemone is splitting itself in two!


This one is a little earlier on in the process. Ah, spring.




Snuggly ochre stars...the purple and orange are the same species; I have never heard an explanation as to why they come in 2 colors.


Goose barnacles


Stalwart tidepool shelties.




From the ocean to the river. Dancer!


It's not a good picture, but I still like it.


More mallards. You can never have too many.


Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww baby spotted pony. He was very interested in the camera.


hi!


Nibbling mom's grain. How precocious!

Comments

[joreth]

I would recommend a polarizing filter for your camera. It will help take out some of the reflectiveness of the surface of the water so you can better photograph what's under the water without resorting to attempting to put your shadow over it (unless that's an intentional image, of course).

Like a UV filter (which every SLR and DSLR should use - they don't really affect the image much, but *will* catch a scratch before the lens does and are much more affordable to replace), polarizing filters are relatively inexpensive and with your many photos of tidepools, will probably be a big benefit to you.

A poor-man's polarizing filter is to just hold up a pair of polarized sunglasses to the lens of a snapshot camera (that has a lens small enough to completely fit within the parameters of a sunglasses lens).

[joreth]

Oh, and I can recommend a series of waterproof bags for electronic equipment, including digital cameras of the snapshot and DSLR variety, that were affordable and helped me a great deal on my trip to the Bahamas. The DSLR bag is a little cumbersome to use, but so worth it to protect my electronics and expensive lenses from sand, salt, and splashing water even when I'm not planning to submerge the camera.

It allowed me to take my DSLR down to play with dolphins and not freak out when a dolphin splashed me :-D

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

oh, thank you a lot for the advice. I am thinking that I need a JC class or a book or something to really get me up to speed on how to use my camera. I will look into polarizing filters. I'd also like to get a lens with a better zoom, for wildlife.

That's so wonderful about the dolphin! Are there any pics of this event?

[joreth]

Yep, I posted about them a while back. Most of them can be found on my website for the page about the trip (http://www.theinnbetween.net/bahamas.html and a bunch others on the Photography page, but I think all the dolphins are on the Trip page.