Week in Review with Tulip
On My Blog
Today’s Flowers: Grape Hyacinths and Creeping Phlox
Watery Wednesday at Sandy Hook
Sky Watch at Sandy Hook
Nature Notes: A Pictorial View of Sandy Hook
A Month of Modern Jewish Holidays
What is RT? (I’ll give you the answer now: it’s Re-Tweet! More on Twitter in future posts)
Upcoming in Highland Park: The Highland Park Public Library is once again having a book sale! (and my neighbors put a lot of energy into putting this together, so three cheers for them. You’ve seen their red bud, magnolia and dogwood trees on my blog). It’s the same weekend as the Annual Street Fair, which is on May 17. If you live in Central New Jersey, you can donate books from May 11 to 14.
Elsewhere on the Web
Coach Lisa on Payment vs. Exposure
From the article:
Some of you get paid to speak; others hope to get paid one day. One thing that we all face as paid speakers is the issue of payment vs. exposure. That is, we will be invited to speak pro bono, or will be offered less than our usual rate, and we’ll have to decide if it’s worth it to take less money in order to get exposure or visibility…only a few of my pro bono speaking engagements have paid off in clients or future speaking engagements. Read the rest.
How to Build Natural Immunity against Swine Flu
Rabbi Yoseph Breuer: the Rav of Frankfurt and Washington Heights (via G6)
Mrs. S. says
Nice picture! I especially like that single drop of water on the tulip.
Shabbat Shalom!
G6 says
Stunning photo...
Dhaval Jani says
Beautiful picture!!! Love the Orange and DOF(Depth of Field)!
leoraw says
Dhaval,
Thanks! Depth of Field (Robin of http://aroundtheisland.blogspot.com/ talk me the word "bokeh") is one of my favorites. If you have any tips on how to achieve good depth of field shots, would love to hear. Good to see you again last night at the HPPL social media talks.
Dhaval Jani says
Intresting!!! new word for me hehe… I am not even close to pro… I my 3 yr old kodak 5mp point and shoot with 10x optical in manual modes most of time… One simple rule to get DOF is lower F stop. Here is a very interesting tutorial for the same
http://pictureline.webphotoschool.com/E-330_Controlling_Depth_of_Field_in_Outdoor_Portraits/index.html
But here is my easy to understand guide
1) its good to get close but its better to keep little more distance and zoom in(optical zoom)
2) lock the focus by pressing shutter half and
3) click done
P.S one should always check their camera’s specs for macro mode distance
Ilana-Davita says
Great shot and I like the "bokeh" there too!
Shabbat Shalom from someone who should really be in her kitchen.
robert says
With respect to the speaking engagements, that's why its important to have an agent! Of course, I don't have one ...
leoraw says
Agent, hmm. That's a few levels up from where I am now...public speaking is new for me.
AscenderRisesAbove says
if you could taste that tulip... it would be orange sherbet!
leoraw says
Orange sherbert...yes, I like that description!
Shimshonit says
Beautiful. Such a unique color--like a sunset. And beautifully photographed.
leoraw says
Sometimes I just hit the right photo with my many shots. I really like this orange sunset tulip, too.
2sweetnsaxy says
What a gorgeous shot of the tulip and what an awesome color!
ramblingwoods says
Wow..that drop on the tulip is amazing..Great macro Leora..
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