Place your orders for prints, posters, cups, etc. etc. now, before any one else has the chance! You’ll be one of the first ones with a poster over your bed like this!
I’d never seen a pink grasshopper before, so I googled it and there’s a stack of results coming up saying this is a rare thing. I remain sceptical until the orders come in

Ok, all jokes aside… When out with the Better Half (I guess I won’t disclose the location to prevent news teams showing up at the place ) I took a stroll through the garden when my eye caught a glimps of an out-of-place color. At least for the part where I was looking. I checked in closer and saw the cutest little creature sitting on a leaf.
Needless to say I went for the camera to shoot a couple of pictures. I did have the macro lens on, but that didn’t really turn out too good, so I went back to the car to get my bag and the extension tubes, expecting the little bugger to be gone by the time I came back. But lo and behold: it was patient, and and apparently experienced in modeling, because it had turned around, head up, facing right up in to the light (if you lean in closely you might even catch a catch light or 500 ). So I set up the tripod, which I also brought, put the extension tube on, stuck it in the face of the grasshopper and even then it didn’t move.

D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/4.8, Tamron 90mm macro + 24mm extension tube

A little break from the Canaries…
Now that summer’s come to an end, and fall has been disappointingly short, and before I go out and change the tires on my car to studded ones, I thought I’d give a last little reminder of this year’s summer…. *sighs*

D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/4.2, Tamron 90mm macro, Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash

D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm macro, Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash

D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro, Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash

D200, ISO100, 1/250sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro, Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash

D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm macro, Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash

D200, ISO100, 1/500 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 70-200mm

La Palma

I’m sure they’re all over the world, and not only in La Palma, but this little… (hmm, well… it actually wasn’t all that little…) bugger I couldn’t really miss sitting in the sun. It was so big I didn’t even need the macro lens for it
One of these “attacked” me on the camping in El Hierro, when we were having breakfast…

D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Tamron 28-75mm

I’ve come to love Lightroom. When it was just released I didn’t think I would need it. I figured I could do everything I needed to do in Bridge and Photoshop.
I still do a lot of stuff in Bridge and Photoshop. I do believe that Lightroom isn’t nearly as powerful in some things than Photoshop is, but I’m not sure if I could be without Lightroom anymore. Especially (among others) its archiving and keywording properties are amazing.
But as with all things also Lightroom has some flaws.

With the amount of photography I do (and the systematically annoying perfectionist that I can be), I need to have order in my archives. Thus I would like to create many catalogs.
Yep, you can create a New Catalog and that will clear the slate completely.

Lightroom screenshot

But suppose (which is often the case with me) that I want to start a new catalog, but leave some of the (smart) collections that I have? Or some of the folders?
I’d delete everything from the present catalog that I don’t want in the new, leave what I need and then go to File – Save Catalog As…
But wait… what the…??? There’s no Save Catalog As…? How can there not be a Save Catalog As? I don’t know one piece of software that doesn’t have a Save As function, so what were the people at Adobe thinking when they left out Save Catalog As?

That would be the first thing I would expect in one of the new versions of Lightroom.

We had it coming already for a couple of days, and after 3 weeks of pretty much non-stop rain I was really looking forward to it. SNOW!
Some slush to begin with, but last night it started seriously snowing. Now I only hope that it’ll get more and that it’ll stay until next year. Last year’s winter sucked moosepeckers. We “celebrated” my first snowless Christmas since moving to Finland.

There was a little bug on the window looking out, probably content with itself being on the inside of the window, not on the outside. It IS quite important, if you’re a one-day fly that the quality of your life is good and snowless.
Unfortunately the quality of its life wasn’t catless and Cassandra did have a protein rich breakfast… And the fly turned out to be not-quite-a-complete-one-day fly.

Enjoy the snow while you still can...