Posts Tagged ‘30-700mm lens’

Photowalk: Coyote Ridge

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Located 15 min­utes south of Fort Collins, Coyote Ridge is a nat­ural area con­sist­ing if a cou­ple hun­dred acres of prairie. A trail runs from the road up across sev­eral ridges. Today, I walked to the base of the sec­ond ridge before com­ing back. I’ll make the full hike to the end some time in the future.

The weather today was over­cast and gloomy, so my cam­era was strain­ing with the avail­able light. Still, I took a few nice pho­tos. Here’s the walk from start to fin­ish, with nar­ra­tion and sev­en­teen pho­tos:

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Daily Photo: Stacked mushrooms

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It’s a return of the old favorite! Mycoids! I’m think­ing about giv­ing this one the old fash­ioned Roundbottom treat­ment. Sneak some eye­balls in there in the folds, maybe. Give it some stalked eye­balls and a mouth and make it some kind of mimic. Lots of pos­si­bil­i­ties. I really do have a slightly unhealthy fas­ci­na­tion with turn­ing mush­rooms into creepy “other” things. When you think about it, with them being nei­ther ani­mal nor plant, but some­thing in between, they’re already some­what creepy. This is the first macro shot I’ve really posted that I didn’t take with my 35mm macro lens, but instead was taken with the macro mode on the 70-​​300mm lens. I’m pretty pleased with it’s qual­ity, but I think I’m going to need to get a really small tri­pod for the insect work.

Daily Photo: Stacked mushrooms