I found my Dad’s old tripod today. It took some hard twisting but I was able to get all the legs working. The tripod made my macro shots much more stable. I took a bunch around the house, the colorful wasp from yesterday was there again and so was the garter snake. So I got much better shots of the garter snake.
Here are a bunch of bonus images from today.
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Today I created a new Flickr Group for FuelMyBlog Members. If you are on FuelMyBlog be sure to let me know so I can get you invited to the FMB Flickr group. You can upload 2 images a day.
Today I also found out that I am a finalist for the Super Bowl Ad Contest at FuelMyBlog. I’ll be asking for help with the voting once voting begins.
Tomorrow I will start a contest on this blog that will be very simple to enter. Look for the contest to begin in tomorrow’s Photo-A-Day post.
I am now signed up for a couple new things. First is Faqqly, a personal F.A.Q. page. Stop by and ask me a question. You can even interview me. I also joined FaceBook. And I am signed up for I Rate My Day.
Great pic!
If you are looking for an inexpensive tripod that you can easily carry around, check out this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Concepts-TR-60N-Camera-Carrying/dp/B000093UDQ/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-7059323-5636908?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1185930747&sr=1-2
I bought this one from Sears, and it cost a little more there…but I had a gift card so it was free for me. It’s decent…easy to fold and unfold, and comes with a carrying case, with a strap so you can carry it on your shoulder.
Now I will be able to start working on my own cooking/crafting video podcasts. The XShot is great, but it won’t cut it when I need both hands free. And Mike can’t do pictures or video to save his life.
Wow that is very inexpensive. I may look into getting one of those. I’ve been looking at all these fancy ones and after using the old one that my dad had I think I can do pretty well with that one, sure it is heavy and bulky but it keeps things fairly steady. I’ll use it for a bit.
Cooking and crafting podcasts that sounds like some great ideas. Good luck with that.
Tripod’s a great hand-me-down. Nice shot!
Thanks Fez,
I should have been using a Tripod all along, makes for the best macro shots. Especially since my macro lens is also a large telephoto one and jumps easily.
Beautiful shot, I love that the image is so sharp and the colors so vivid 🙂
Thank you very much minutechaser. I appreciate the visit and the comment.
Great macro shots. Taking pictures of insects is pretty tough. But your pictures look like you book them from model agency. Great work!
Thanks, what a great compliment. Thanks for visiting and commenting, hope you drop on back by in the future.
Makes me almost not scared of bees & bee-like creatures. I had an adventure with a wasp today….cringe.
Oh wasps are tough, I got stung on the nose by one when I was a kid, it hurt like heck.
This is very nice pic of nature
lots of picture hidden we hav to capture and share all
Thanks you, glad you appreciated the images. Thanks for the comments.