Cicada

 

Cicada coming out of its shell

Lights

Bokeh of Austin's Zilker holiday tree.

Bear lake

A HDR of Bear-lake in Colorado.

Flower

After juice

Same setup as before juice. Had to manually sync dropping ice and firing the shutter; cleaning the spilled drops between shots. I gave up cleaning, when I got it right!

Before juice

At the grocery store, grapefruit caught my attention - it had been long since I put sb600 flash to use. The setup was camera - fruit - white shoot though - flash. The flash being behind the fruit, was difficult to get any light on my hand (towards camera), so had to add some reflectors and slow the shutter for ambient light (hence the blurred hands).  

My age

Rings on tree trunk showing its age.

Orb

My first attempt at light painting - the orb; done with a LED flashlight! So is the signature.

Shoot raw

It is fun to look at old files and find them in RAW format. I shot this last spring in a state park, but never looked at it then. Being RAW could adjust exposure and sharpness 

Oil !

A macro (with close-up filter) of oil in water, with a colorful background. Would have looked better without the small air bubbles; but they were hard to get rid of!

Water drops

Water droplets on glass. Tried a shallow depth of field but ended up cropping the sides as they were very much out of focus, that I did not like!

Lights

Thanks to ideas from my friend Guru and photographer Bryan Peterson, I shot this at Austin's trail of lights by zooming the lens while taking the picture.

Welcome

Idol in Houston temple

Grass Flowers

Dragonfly

Tropical storm Hermine brought lots of rain, and also this dragonfly to my patio. Used flash to brighten it and was surprised by the colors it brought out.

Insects invited

Thanks to the spider, it had built its web vertically, far enough from the trees behind it. Took the photo at night with a flash - the light exposed only the spider (overexposed) and its web and not the background as light gets weaker with distance. You can still see the leaves of the tree blurred in the background. Converted the picture to B&W as it did not have much colors.

Pennybacker bridge

Pennybacker bridge in Austin, also called the 360 bridge, has an awesome overlook from the hills on its north-end. This was a 84 second exposure from the hill on the west. Austin's downtown skyline is at the far left, small though. See the star streaks in the sky? Should return here for star trails.

Fireworks

July 4th fireworks in Austin.

Dropped it!

I just had a munch !!!

Black smoke ?

The background was not as black... see it on the pictures? :)