Dead Tree

[alfredo]

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Used the Sigma 19mm 2.8 on my Olympus EPL-1. I haven't used this lens much lately because of my love affair with the Sigma 30mm 2.8.

[Curmudgeoness]

1. Love these shots.

Love old wood. Dead tree, supporting millions of life forms. I love it.

[alfredo]

2. It's a buffet for the forest.

[Celebration]

3. Ah, perfect in black and white

Amazing perspective in that first one.

[alfredo]

4. Thanks. I've gone back to shooting RAW. Even though

I haven't shot RAW for over a year, but I seem to have a better grasp of the tools. Even iPhoto does a good job.

Gimp does a weird thing. Its RAW converter converts the image to black and white. I can't figure out why. I can get around that by converting the RAW in iPhoto.

[ohheckyeah]

5. Great tree

and very nice photos. I love trees.

[alfredo]

6. Thanks. We have some beautiful old oaks here.

We have several well over 300 years old. Even long after their death, they still can amaze.

[ohheckyeah]

7. We have a huge old oak in the woods next to our house.

I need to try and get a picture. I have no idea how old it is.

[alfredo]

8. I love the eastern hardwoods. The forests embrace us.

[ohheckyeah]

9. I love the forests.

Our house has forest on two sides and quite a few trees on a third. Actually, there are quite a few even in front of the house. It makes me happy.

[alfredo]

10. In my part of the world we just called it the woods. I used to dig sassafras and sell it

to people in the neighborhood. That is a wonderful smell. Sassafras is easy to spot due to the three types of leaves on the tree.

[ohheckyeah]

11. We call it the woods, too...

I just used forest because you did.

[alfredo]

12. A forest is where you go on vacation, the woods is where you go because the

bathroom is in use.

[ohheckyeah]

13. LOL

Went out in the woods many times when camping and hiking.

[alfredo]

14. My sister learned how to ID poison ivy on one of those trips.

[ohheckyeah]

15. Good idea.

I found out to watch out for cactus when we lived in Tucson. We were hiking, took a break, and I went over to my husband's backpack that he had propped against a rock, squatted down to get something out of it, and squatted on a cactus. OUCH

[alfredo]

16. My sister's lesson was rather painful too.

[ohheckyeah]

17. Yeah, I bet it was.

Damn clouds are blocking out the full moon right now. I wanted to take some photos. *grumble grumble*

[alfredo]

18. Astronomy buffs speak of a cloud filter, but I have yet

to find one for cameras.

[ohheckyeah]

19. What the heck is a cloud filter?

I know you can use a red filter to make clouds look more dramatic, but I don't know any filter that filters out clouds.

[alfredo]

20. It's somewhat akin to a left-handed monkey wrench.

[ohheckyeah]

21. And a left-handed screwdriver?

[alfredo]

22. Exactly.