186

Where Greg could be found for most of the Lake Willoughby vacation, unless he had the green kayak instead.

Exposure time: 1/640 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 200

185

Amazing sunset as seen from my office window!

Exposure time: 1/80 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 500

184

Ehh paparazzi!
Greg and Brother Justin enjoying some grilling and some beer.

Exposure time: 1/125 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 500

183

The splash of a cannonball. Action shots are not super easy with the focusing mechanism of the lensbaby.

Exposure time: 1/80 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 800

182

A waterfall.

Exposure time: 1/80 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 800

181

A friend chopping wood. She was a pro.

Exposure time: 1/200 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400

180

A little yellow flower, with a little yellow bee-like bug.

Exposure time: 1/500 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 250

179

I love a good power lines shot, especially when there are good clouds.

Exposure time: 1/800 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 250

178

I saw these rings in a field. Maybe it was a wheel?

Exposure time: 1/500 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200

177

Yellow leaf on path.

Exposure time: 1/1000 s
Aperture: f/2.8 or f/5.6 (but looking at this photo, I think I was still at f/2.8 for this and the previous photos)
ISO: 200

176

birch tree.

Exposure time: 1/80 s
Aperture: f/2.8 or f/5.6 (sorry!)
ISO: 1600

(I promise I am working on properly adjusting ISO.)

175

Roof of the Billings Lodge.

Exposure time: 1/250 s
Aperture: f/2.8 or f/5.6 (I don't remember, sorry!)
ISO: 320

174

Wheelbarrow.

Exposure time: 1/250 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 1000

173

Textbooks.

Exposure time: 1/80 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 1000

172

Aurora's debut on the blog!
Not to be confused with this aurora.
Here she is, looking confused by me holding a camera in her face.

Exposure time: 1/10 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400

171

The barn at dusk.

Exposure time: 1/40 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400

170

A dandelion.

Exposure time: 1/160 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400

169

Cones to form a sidewalk.

Exposure time: 1/160 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400

168

The Baker-Berry Bell Tower. With a statue of a mathematical object in the foreground. Another spectacular result of the lensbaby.

Exposure time: 1/160 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400

167 - a post about new things

I am so excited for today's post. On July 20th I got a package in the mail. The note that came with it said:
"Mama? Congratulations! It's a Lensbaby!"

That's right folks. I finally purchased a Lensbaby lens. I got the Muse, with the double glass optics.

This photo was taken on the day I got the lens, within an hour of opening it. It is possibly my most favorite photo taken to date.



Exposure time: 1/160 s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400

The lensbaby has a little disc that you drop into place that you can change out to change the aperture. As such, I might not always know what aperture was used for each photo, unless I don't do much changing.

Year of the Consulship of Pudens and Pollio

yummm
These caramel apples were lined up in the candy shop.
Very photogenic, those caramel apples.

Exposure time: 1/50 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 1600

165

Donkeys! I like donkeys a lot these days. This is a statue of three donkeys cuddling. How cute.

Exposure time: 1/320 s
Aperture: f/3.8
ISO: 200

164

The Oldest House.
There is a bit of controversy over this claim.

Exposure time: 1/500 s
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 200

163

The miraculous staircase in the Loretto Chapel, which you can read about here.

Exposure time: 1/40 s
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 1600

(this is what happens in a dark chapel where flash is not allowed)

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Outside of the Loretto Chapel there was a tree that had all of these rosaries hung on it.

Exposure time: 1/320 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 250

Unfortunately, this photo makes it very obvious to me that the colors are not quite as bright when I upload the photo with blogger, compared to viewing it in iphoto... something to think about I guess.

161

Fancy-pants weather vane things.

Exposure time: 1/1600 s
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 250

160

There were a lot of chiles in Santa Fe. Usually they were hanging in bundles like this. I feel like that would be the way to dry the chiles out for eating in the future. But I'm pretty sure these were being sold as decoration.

Exposure time: 1/125 s
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 250

159

Same cathedral, different view.

Exposure time: 1/800 s
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 500

158

This is the St. Francis of Assissi cathedral in Santa Fe, NM.

Exposure time: 1/800 s
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 500

157

A tiny pink weed-flower-thing. It was so cute! And so neon pink!

Exposure time: 1/320 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 320

156

A storm out my office window.

Exposure time: 1/120 s
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 800