Thursday, March 26, 2009

Look At the Butterfly (And Not How Long Since I Last Posted)

I can't believe I haven't posted since February. It's amazing how fast time flies while you're not updating your blog.

I think I'm mostly avoiding posting because I was really hoping that starting the blog would get me to take tons of pictures. Every time I think about posting, I realize that I haven't taken new photos in a really long time. I know that some of it is the weather. I love photographing outside. I've gotten some really great winter scenes, but I love photography in the summer (or spring and even fall...)

Although I'm bummed about not doing as much photographing that I would like, I do love looking through my archives to do an entry here. There picture was of the butterfly was taken in my yard this fall. Butterflies are always gorgeous. If the sit still long enough to be in a picture then the photo turns out awesome just because you caught a butterfly on film. Most of the pictures of this butterfly turned out blurring. I really like this one though.

It reminds me of a time I was talking to a coworker about my photography. She was admiring a picture I had on the calendar. I was talking about how many of the flower I actually took to get one photo that I felt was awesome. Some of that is experimenting. Some more of it is the fact that I've learned a lot about exposure, aperture, shutter speed, etc. It also show the patience for getting the shot of the moving butterfly.