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wow, what an incredible storm we had friday night. lots of swirling winds from the north brought over an inch of wonderful rainwater and an awesome batch of lightning that lasted for hours. i grabbed the wide angle and had some fun with bulb mode.

the sweet red onions from dromgoole’s went in this weekend

here’s beta 1 of centraltexaswildflowers.com
this first draft includes over 70 wildflower photos taken mainly in the incredible spring of 2007, all in southwest travis county of austin, texas.

this tarantula found its way onto our front porch during one of our recent 50 degree temperature drops. was keeping warm behind the everlasting pumpkin.

i shot some macro video test footage around my house this past weekend. the subject is my favorite, tiny insects. my video rig utilizes the highly versatile erector set rubber tire as the adapter between my hv20 and canon slr lens.

i’ll have to shoot stills next time without the 35mm lens attached for reference of scale. the black bug near the end was about a centimeter long and maybe a millimeter wide. it was pretty amazing to be able to focus in on the pits in its head.

maintaining focus was extremely difficult with this rig. because the lens is about 1/4″ away from the subject, grabbing the focus ring blocked much of the light. gently leaning on the tripod back & forth was the best way i could keep focus for many of the shots.

i’m pleased with the results. i’m hoping to find some more interesting shots this weekend to post.