More Vancouver Island flowers - May 2011

Vancouver Island Seascapes - May 2011

This is a good picture to demonstrate the need for more depth of field in landscape shots. In order to get the logs in front and the mountains all clear, I had to use a small aperture (large f number), which slows down your shutter speed of course. If it's not a bright day a tripod becomes necessary. Then focus about a third up the distance, and you're grand.



I love the subtle colour palette and textures here.

Vancouver Island - May 2011

I was attracted here to the different textures present and was able to separate the background with a fairly shallow depth of field.


I don't find perfection in nature is required for beauty...sometimes it actually detracts.



I was playing here with a borrowed lens, an old Nikkor 50 f1.4, for which my camera can't meter. So in bracketing I got these 2 exposures that both worked for me. It also doesn't autofocus, and with my 47 yr old eyes, that's a problem as you can see.