My great niece in her girl cave. Walkersville, MD

Walkersville, MD

Since the previous post mentioned my occasional butterfly-chasing activities, I thought I would show you a typical result. Not art, but fun. Greenville, SC

Sometimes I chase butterflies around the back yard with my camera and macro lens. This year I discovered that, when evening falls and the butterflies disappear, a second shift of moths takes over. By then, focusing is almost impossible and shutter speeds are long, so you have to go for the dreamy look. (BTW, I think this is a Dogbane Tiger Moth.) Greenville, SC

Lately I've been trying to post series of pictures that shared some theme or location. But now we'll have a short run of unrelated photos. In the neighborhood, Greenville, SC

In the front yard, Greenville, SC

In the front yard, Greenville, SC

In the front yard, Greenville, SC

Every fall, we celebrate the amazing yellowness of the maple tree in our front yard. Greenville, SC

Folly Beach, SC

Folly Beach, SC

Folly Beach, SC

Folly Beach, SC

Folly Beach, SC

Back to the beach for a bit. Folly Beach, SC

Altered image, Lido Key, FL

Altered image. Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

We'll take a break from beach pictures to catch up with some recent altered images. M reading on the couch, Greenville, SC

Folly Beach, SC

Above the high tide line, Folly Beach, SC

Folly Beach, SC

I really love the interaction of the water and the sand at the beach. Probably half my beach pictures are of the sand. So, today, we'll start a short series of sand pictures. Folly Beach, SC

Full moon rising at Folly Beach, SC

Folly Beach, SC

Folly Beach, SC

In the neighborhood, Greenville, SC

Altered image. Downtown Greenville, SC

I reworked my "saturated image" program a little, to give me choices about how dark the darker values are rendered. I've found I like most images a little darker than my original program produced. (For those geeks among you, I also converted the color math into the HSV space from the RGB space, which now seems like an obvious thing to do, but I hadn't done it.) We'll have recent examples for the next several posts.

The last of the machine pictures. Downtown Greenville, SC

Downtown Greenville, SC

Downtown Greenville, SC

I went downtown to walk around one day and encountered a nice machine. So I took some pictures of it. Several more coming. Greenville, SC

This is the last of the (long) current series from Lake Conestee Nature Park. Next post, we'll move on to something else. Conestee, SC

Reedy River as it passes through Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

After a very hot and sunny June and July, we finally got some cloudy days in August. Cloudy days are when you pick up your camera and head to the woods. We'll now start a fairly long series of Lake Conestee Nature Park pictures. Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

Downtown Greenville, SC

Downtown Greenville, SC

Downtown Greenville, SC