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A few new photos of things found around the yard, for the most part... 1) Leaf bug 2) Woolyworm 3) Green fly 4) Fly eyes 5) Horntail wasp 6) Sunset reflections 7) Giant mushroom

A couple of weekends ago, I took some photos around Chicago and at Celtic Fest, and I finally got around to processing them. Below is a sample. Also, if anyone here is running Gallery2, I have hacked together a couple of modules in the past week. One maps your photos with Google Maps, and the...

Took the Fuji S2 and the 150mm macro & ring flash combo out last weekend and came up with some nice shots. Here are a few. Anything interesting in your back yard? Ah, to be a cat... Tiny spider, click for scale reference: A larger spider with prey: Butterfly (not a crop!)...

The first four here were taken with the Sigma 150mm macro lens. It's a little unwieldy at times, but it's actually a pretty fun lens to take on a walk around town; just make sure you get some padding under the camera strap. ;) It's very fast, both in aperture and focusing ability, and its...

I found this stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) outside at about 1AM; picked it up on a sheet of paper and took it back inside to get some photos. Poor guy (girl, actually, I think) is missing a leg but seemed to be able to get around fairly well. Photos with Fuji S2 Pro, Sigma 50mm and 150mm, and a...

I haven't raced in an autocross in quite a while, but it's still fun to go out and take pictures. All of the on-course shots here were taken with the Sigma 150mm; the rest were either taken with that or the Nikon 18-35mm (should be obvious which). 1) Part of the course: 2) Blue STi; one...

Here are some more photos of dogs for the dog fans out there. These were all taken with the Sigma 150mm macro lens on a Fujifilm S2 Pro body. It's a bit tough getting used to the relatively long, fixed focal length, but this is a killer lens. The gang, three golden retrievers: The two...

The Photek lighthouse we have at work came with a sheet (about 18"x36") of black velvet. It's useful for all sorts of things. I took these photos with a Fujifilm S2 Pro, Sigma 50mm, and a Sigma ring flash. Getting the background to be pure black is a simple as moving the black point slider in...

Here are a few random photos from last weekend. No coherent theme, so I'm just going to post them without further introduction. :) First four were taken with the Sigma 50mm; last four taken with the Sigma 150mm plus 2x TC.

I finally got a chance to go out for a little bit with the new Sigma 150mm lens that we got here at work. It's a great lens: very sharp, focuses quickly and quietly, and the ability to tweak focus while in AF mode is priceless. I've put a variety of photos here temporarily, and here are a few...

After the ice storm a week or so ago, the temperature shot up to t-shirt weather, we got about three inches of rain, and then everything froze up again within a day. This made for some interesting ice formations, particularly around the river. These photos are pretty bland, but my fingers...

These are a few photos of the ice storm we're having. I'll be going out later tonight to get more, at least if it stops raining. These were all shot with the S2 Pro, Sigma 50mm, monopod. More to come...

Hey, everybody. Just thought I'd post some photos from my Christmas and wish you all the best for the holidays. Anybody get any photo equipment? We picked up a nice Manfrotto monopod, a LumiQuest Promax System package, and a ND 0.6 gradient filter here at work just a couple of days ago. The only...

Here in central Illinois we had a great display of the Aurora Borealis, lasting from around 7PM until at least 12AM Sunday night. Thanks to mpcamer for getting me off my ass to go get some photos :). Larger versions available upon request, as always. They didn't come out all that well, but not...

Here are some random recent photos I've taken. There's really no rhyme or reason to them, but I'll describe roughly what they are. A tree; nothing particularly interesting, but it was about as close as I came to getting a "fall colors" shot this year :). A cat; again, nothing special...

I have two main roles in this firefighting simulation project that I've mentioned before. One is developing code to model, in real time, how fire spreads through a building. The other is to generate stock photography of equipment, people, and textures for the team responsible for making 3-D...

I've mentioned this BFG project that I worked on last spring; basically a game built by students for class credit to show off the new computer science building at UIUC. Well, we're at it again this semester, only this time we're doing a Firefighting Simulator for the UIUC Fire Service Institute...

I tried the forum search, but didn't see any related threads. I'm basically looking for a web-based image gallery that supports purchasing and secure downloading of images. Basic requirements: - Hierarchically organized galleries - Searchable by keywords, description, category - Must be...

I was about to make a sarcastic and negative comment in another thread, and decided I might as well just post some photos instead. I've been lazy about updating my galleries lately, but here are some of the more recent additions. Happy to...

I found this praying mantis a few days ago, and have been waiting to get the good camera back so I could get some pictures. Below are a couple of them that came out decently. There are a few more here.

These are some attempts at very close-up macro photography. Most of these were taken at f/22 to f/32 (tiny aperture), which seemed to make it hard to get the flash to light things up properly. Unfortunately, at these sizes, it seems like you have to use a small aperture, or most of the subject...

I don't know how much people care about this kind of thing, but my new hard drive just came in. It's a 250GB Western Digital, external enclosure, FireWire and USB 2.0. Pretty nice for $200, as far as I know (which is not that far, admittedly). What surprised me was the enclosure and the weird...