Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]went on a riverboat cruise yesterday that left from a botanical gardens. the riverboat cruise was emminantly forgetable -- it consisted of me staring at the enormous, lumpy posteriors of about 40 people pressed up against the glass making cooing noises at what apparantly were large bits of flotsam streaming out into the rivers from storm drains while i sat in my seat able to see nothing but sadly neglected, donut fed rump as far as the eye could roam. the end could not come swiftly enough. but when it eventually did, i meandered through the botanical gardens snapping away with the leica d200 and a vivitar 100mm 2.8 macro that i got on ebay for $40. while these all SAY "bee", none of them are actually of honeybees. there is a bumble bee in there with some huge pollin saddles, but most of the rest of them are flowers. http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/bee3.jpg http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/bee4.jpg http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/bee5.jpg http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/bee6.jpg http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/bee7.jpg if you tell anybody i was photographing flowers, we're gonna have to step outside. just so we're clear on that. kc