Today’s photography is of a photograph.  My fiancee’s and my engagement photos were delivered to us by Ron Soliman in this beautiful “leather” framed DVD case.  Inset on the cover is a small print out of one of our photographs.

I highly recommend Ron if you are in need of a wedding or event photographer.  His services have been worth every penny so far.  Reach out to me or leave a comment below if you want to know more.

I shot this type of jewelry box concept a while back during the project (7-28: Creativity In a Box).  Because I was tired and in a rush to get today’s photograph, I revisited the jewelry box, but this time with the macro lens.

I loved how these flowers looked sitting in their vase by our front door.  I decided to set up my trusty flower photo station in the kitchen and  use the macro lens to try to capture their brilliant colors.  I did not notice this grouping of three pink flowers while shooting the frame.  However, when I was post processing the picture, I opted for a tight crop on the grouping once I noticed it.

MUST….KEEP….POSTING…..

While “throwing” my clubs into my car’s trunk after a round of golf this morning, I spotted this scene at the far end of the long parking lot.  I took a walk to cure my curiosity and snapped a few photographs with my iPhone while I was over there.

Today I learned the importance of using a tripod for macro photography.  The depth of field is so narrow, it is near impossible to keep your focal point exact while hand holding.  I do love the way the colors came out in today’s photograph though.

I took a photowalk around the outside of the Marriott tonight with the intent to only use the 100mm f/2.8L macro lens for today’s photograph.  I stumbled upon the small Koi pond in the front of the building.  I thought that the low sun in the sky was creating some intriguing lighting on the pond’s surface.  I squatted down to get as even with the water’s surface as possible while keeping the lilly in frame.  In post, I converted the image to a black and white rendition.

The coffee was brewing this morning and it smelt so good that I had to take a picture of it.  I left the 100mm f/2.8L macro lens on the body and snapped the shot more from a portrait distance than a close up distance.  The 100mm f/2.8L macro lens is great not only as a macro but also as a normal lens, especially for portraiture.  Just because the lens says macro does not mean that is all it is good for.

A few months back I was on a kick using Lego figurines for the Photo365 project.  My fiancee was nice enough to swing by the Lego store in Tyson’s Corner, VA to pick me up some more pieces.  The box she wound up getting is full of random heads, torsos, legs and accessories.  Tonight I planned on using at least one new Lego-man, but when I opened the box and saw the hundreds of tiny pieces with very little sorting rhyme or reason, I promptly changed my mind.

I snuck out with a coworker today during the early afternoon to play eighteen holes.  It was a beautiful afternoon for golf, not too sunny and not completely overcast.  Somewhere on the back nine, we encountered this creature hanging out by one of the water features.  It was not until I got about thirty yards away from it that I could tell it was a styrofoam ornament.  I suppose it was there to try to scare off the many geese in the area.

Tonight I went back to photographing the Vietnamese doll that my dad brought home from overseas for my mom while he was in the service years ago.  This time around I was using the 100mm f/2.8L Macro lens and a single Speedlite to capture the scene.  The 100mm f/2.8L Macro lens by Canon is quite a good portrait lens in addition to a fabulous macro lens.  The 100mm focal lens is perfect for compressing the backgrounds of portraits and can help capture even the finest of details in objects.  I highly recommend the lens to all Canon shooters.