tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405384143714991962024-03-13T09:49:12.300-04:00linda's lensPhoto blog featuring photos, digital photography tips and links to my web galleries.Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-51806333704744395822010-05-30T00:01:00.000-04:002010-05-30T00:01:27.806-04:00Moving day…As of today, Sunday, May 30, Linda's Lens is moving to a new location on the same server as my website, www.digitalquinn.com/photoblog. If you arrived here looking for my latest photo blog post, please visit my new location…and if you have the blog bookmarked, please change it accordingly. See you there!Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-24936100143581369512010-05-05T23:37:00.004-04:002010-05-06T00:05:32.438-04:00Back online after our family wedding…
I am back to posting to my blog after a long, dry stretch. It seems a lot longer than three weeks ago that we drove home from Florida. My stepson Brian, his wife Vanessa and their beautiful daughter (and my granddaughter and goddaughter), Brianna arrived from Japan on April 22, and on May 1 they took their wedding vows for a second time at a church wedding and reception for family and friends. Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-19160262978726804292010-04-03T20:49:00.013-04:002010-04-04T11:37:34.399-04:00Doggie Parade…Americans are having a love affair with their dogs, and the dog owning residents of Travelers Rest Resort are no exception. The local kennel club wrapped up their season with a pet parade. Since our block was on the parade route I was front and center with my camera.
Side-note — I have been fortunate to be a beta tester for the soon to be released Photoshop CS5. The new version will be on sale Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-38607946942576235952010-03-31T09:16:00.002-04:002010-03-31T09:18:17.079-04:00Lake Margaret…The pond known as Lake Margaret is home to a large colony of turtles. They love to bask in the sun on a log that sticks out of the pond. I saw this Red-Bellied turtle enjoying a bit of solitude…
Later, from across the pond, I noticed that something appeared to be swimming near the log. What I observed were the heads of other turtles, and one of them decided that the first turtle had to make Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-71534851228508253882010-03-31T09:08:00.002-04:002010-03-31T09:19:20.298-04:00…and more feathered neighbors…
In Florida I happen upon a lot of birds, or they happen upon me. The other day there was a lot of activity in a tree outside our RV. A pair of birds had been building a nest…
This bird was in the tree, and I was pretty sure it was the nest builder.
…and then I saw this bird. It was in the shadow of the tree, and since it had a similar look I thought it was the mate.
But when I looked at the Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-80232401577998597922010-03-14T21:55:00.001-04:002010-03-14T22:02:52.905-04:00Stunned…Only one photos to post today — and this week. This is a photo of a female Downy Woodpecker (the males have red on their heads) who sort of paid us a visit when were were staying at the Disney Fort Wilderness Campground 10 days ago.
I out riding my bicycle, and had just pulled up outside our RV, when I heard a thud and this little bird fell to the ground—on its back. She had flown right into oneLinda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-19352110695662806452010-03-08T23:27:00.001-05:002010-03-08T23:30:55.258-05:00Why my photos are behind schedule…Last week I prepared a group of photos to post on the blog, but when I opened my MacBook Pro laptop did not want to cooperate — on the morning of February 26 it refused to wake-up. After a bit of troubleshooting I had to make a trip to the Genius Bar at an Apple Store where they confirmed that a repair was needed. And so I was without my trusty computer for a week, which put me behind schedule onLinda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-70339271624227025702010-03-08T23:18:00.000-05:002010-03-08T23:18:28.364-05:00Meet my neighbors…We stay in a rural part of Florida, and some of our neighbors are of the four legged variety. These photos are of a calf, its mother, and a very friendly donkey.
Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-90977084022230294412010-03-08T22:19:00.005-05:002010-03-08T22:30:34.045-05:00More local wildlife…
These photos were taken at my local lakes, Lake Margaret and Vanishing Lake. Vanishing is so named because when the water table is low, as it was last year, the lake disappears. The Great Egret was wading in Vanishing Lake before it took flight.
The photos were shot using the Nikon 70mm – 300mm zoom lens. I shot at 640 ISO so that I could use a fast shutter speed and capture the bird in flight.Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-9016311181410005622010-02-26T16:06:00.000-05:002010-02-26T16:06:49.632-05:00The best of plans...Last night I was working on a series of photos to upload to my blog. My "darkroom" work was complete and I justed need to format the images for uploading to the blog, which I planned to do this morning. Only this morning, my computer would not turn on! I am taking it to Apple in a little while, and if it needs to be sent in for repair, then next week I will have a lot of photos to upload to make Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-84795866870283055462010-02-19T17:16:00.010-05:002010-02-19T19:43:06.246-05:00In the wild or in a wildlife park?
There are photographers think that wild animal photographs, like this tiger, are not worthy of being shown because it was not taken in the wild. I can understand that point of view, but, and it is a big but, I really enjoy photographing animals, and since visiting Africa is not in my future, I will have to make due with what I can. When I was young, many moons ago, a big cat like this wouldLinda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-46836064960682529262010-02-12T00:01:00.005-05:002010-02-12T00:27:42.336-05:00Spring tease…With snow covering the northeast, and cold weather in Florida (Yes, we are cold again down here, and snow is predicted for the northern Florida panhandle.), I thought that it would be nice to post spring photos. I took these photos in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia last April 28 — in the mountain elevations spring comes late. All of the photos were taken with an aperture priority setting ofLinda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-61433919329919369712010-02-03T22:40:00.004-05:002010-02-03T22:54:03.972-05:00Baby Gators…
I took the photos of these alligators last week. Eddie took me bike riding on the Van Fleet Trail (rails-to-trail) that runs through the Green Swamp. He has seen an alligator earlier in the week, and he thought that if it was still there, I would like taking some photographs. We were in luck, the alligator was in the same pond…
…and it had company.
The two small gators (they were around 2 1/2 Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-68526920385797446702010-02-03T13:34:00.001-05:002010-02-03T13:36:16.718-05:00Two more from last year…
The photo of the straw flowers and the Tinkerbell statue were also taken at the 2009 Flower and Garden Festival at EPCOT. The photos are not part of a story, but I like them. Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-91115597316171226772010-01-27T22:34:00.007-05:002010-01-27T23:02:32.077-05:00Butterflies tell the story…
If any of you have checked the blog since last Thursday, you will know that I have been neglectful. I had been trying to post photos every couple of days, but this week got away from me, so I needed to find a series of photos that would work together.
I like concentrating on one subject when I am taking photos, and I am always pleased, after sorting and editing, when I see a story Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-69524072410003525712010-01-21T13:34:00.008-05:002010-01-21T13:50:08.192-05:00More about using ISO…In the last post I showed a photo taken in low light using a very high ISO setting. The resulting image is well lit and has very little digital noise. In this post I am showing three versions of a photo where I used a higher ISO setting for a different purpose — capturing a moving object.
While waiting for Eddie outside the YMCA gym on Martin Luther King Day, two boys were skateboarding on theLinda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-10333197527726235272010-01-19T23:18:00.002-05:002010-01-21T13:46:09.595-05:00Using ISO settings to your advantage…
I was wandering around an antique shop when I came across this stop light. I thought it would make a good photo, but the shop was way too dark for natural light photography. Not having a speed light flash with me, I compensated by cranking up the ISO from 200, the camera's normal setting, all the way up to 3200.
The ISO setting measures the sensitivity of the camera's image sensor to light. Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-61826466194726457112010-01-15T23:26:00.002-05:002010-01-15T23:30:35.519-05:00Enjoying the return to nicer weather…
The pair of Sandhill Cranes that live at Travelers Rest Resort came out on Friday to enjoy the return of warmer weather. Cranes sometimes stand on one leg, with the other leg tucked under a wing. I was really lucky to be following the birds with my camera when one of them decided to unfold their right leg from under the wing.
Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-78249442544927100042010-01-11T21:52:00.011-05:002010-01-11T22:07:32.318-05:00"Baby it's cold outside…"
As I said in my last post, it has been cold in Florida. As of today, January 11all of Florida has been affected by an extended cold spell. Most years it gets cold for a day or two, and then warms up, so this cold spell has taken everyone by surprise. Today I took a few photos around our RV resort — winter in Florida!
Every Monday and Thursday a local farm sells vegetables at the park. Today Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-2159717728760549492010-01-09T09:21:00.001-05:002010-01-09T09:22:42.904-05:00A Glimpse of Spring…I took these series of tulip photos last spring. With everyone, including those of us in Florida, in the grips of a cold winter, I thought it would be a good time to post photos of flowers!
Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-37456295815417983232010-01-07T15:56:00.001-05:002010-01-07T16:02:08.283-05:00Silent Sentries…
For over five years I have been taking photos of statues, with the idea of making a handmade book of my statuary photos. Maybe this will be the year! At anyrate, these two statue photos were taken on Monday in the Lake Margaret garden at our RV resort. The gardens around the lake are very inviting, lush, and lovingly cared for by the garden club ladies.
Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-47422158108943734082010-01-06T15:03:00.002-05:002010-01-07T16:03:39.785-05:00Winter in Florida…
It is cold here in central Florida. It is the middle of the afternoon, and I am not sure that the temperature has gone above 50º. Overnight, for the past several nights, the temperature has been in the twenties. Brrr. During my photo walk through the park area on Monday, I did come across a tree with berries that did not appear to be affected by the cold. I think the common name for the tree Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-77101793628596777382010-01-04T22:58:00.003-05:002010-01-06T13:16:16.488-05:00Visions at Lake Margaret…
Sandhill Cranes are amazing creatures. This pair has been at our RV resort for several years. I took these shots with a telephoto lens this afternoon.
Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-65594697122885734892010-01-02T23:54:00.004-05:002010-01-06T13:07:39.651-05:00Celebrating the New Year…
A friend suggested that a good way to begin my year of 365 photos would be with a celebration style photograph. And so, for my third photo of the year, I have posting a photo of fireworks taken last January at Disney World.
It can be tricky to get good photos of fireworks — I am working on getting results I am happy with. Many of the newer point and shoot digital camera have a setting Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440538414371499196.post-60628366819296386132010-01-01T17:05:00.008-05:002010-01-06T13:10:49.864-05:00Happy New Year…My wishes for a
Happy, Healthy and
Peaceful New Year.
In my last post I wrote that my blogging goal for 2010 is to post a photo a day — or 365 photos. I will certainly make me work for my photography. I need to get my my existing photo library organized, and I plan to spend a lot of time with my camera — and subsequently with my digital darkroom. I begin my quest (because it is Linda Quinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236396793374727901noreply@blogger.com0