Hello Squirrel fans! As promised in my last post, my new blog is up and running! Wahoo! 🙂 The new address is… photography-by-nic.com My first post is a tutorial on how you can get photos like this one, outside in the middle of the day… I hope you are as excited as I am… now…
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Hello Squirrel fans! I have a few announcements… First and foremost, Happy Blog-anniversary to The Auspicious Squirrel… it’s been 4 years! Wow! 🙂 When I started this blog I was on a journey, both on my path to veganism and on a path of self-awareness. I’m happy to say that I’ve been doing well on…
I’ve been playing around with a ring flash with my macro lens. These were taken with my 180mm macro lens mid-morning. As it turns out, bees don’t seem to mind the ring flash, which is very good news for me (I didn’t get stung!). 😀 These flowers grow in little clumps on a bush, they…
Lately I’m obsessed with macro, I seem to be incapable of taking a photo of these flowers from far away. That’s ok, because my ‘style’ seems to be “the details”… I try to photograph things that you have to stop and pay attention in order to see them. Just think of it as my service…
This flower is really neat… it starts out as this little bulb on the end of a stem… it then bursts open and continues to grow into a sphere-like shape. It is one of our favorite flowers in SoCal… it reminds us of fireworks… and oddly is a summer flower, which is rather fitting. These…
This little snail was hanging out on a bush, he was so active and cute that I had to take several photos… I had a hard time picking just one… so indulge me in enjoying the series… Until next time… ~nic
Continuing the rainy day theme… I’ve been obsessed with photographing water drops lately… so when it rains I try my best to get out and photograph them. I love how the water drop has the effect of being a magnifying glass on this leaf… Until next time… ~nic
It doesn’t rain around here very often, but when it does it is a pleasant drizzle… the snails and slugs come out and the flowers and leaves have neat little drops on them just waiting to be photographed. I do my best to get out and photograph on rainy days. These photos were taken a…
Once again, in case you didn’t know, one of the projects I’m working on is bees on flowers… I went out four mornings in a row and got some great shots… When I published my last post, I had thoughts of breaking up day 3 into two posts. After looking at the photos from day…
As mentioned before, one of the projects I’m working on is bees on flowers. I went out four mornings in a row and got some great shots. I wanted to separate day 3 into two posts because the themes of my favorite photos can be grouped into two categories; bee on flower, and interesting flower…
As I mentioned last week, one of the projects I’ve been working on lately is photographing bees on flowers. I went out four mornings in a row and got some great images. These are from the second morning… I had the great luck of coming across a hummingbird and a caterpillar. These are some of…
If you’ve been reading my blog long, then you know I have a fear of bees (and wasps). For my latest project, I actually went out seeking bees to photograph. One, to continue to work on desensitizing myself, and two, to continue to find my photographic voice (I like photographing ‘the details’). Originally I was…
Sweetie likes socks. Given that I don’t want my socks soggy, I decided to try to find a toy that resembled a sock. I think she approves of my selection. 🙂 Enjoy! Until next time… ~nic
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