“A weed is but an unloved flower.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox [1850-1919]
My flowers are my neighbor’s weeds. They recently told me so, in writing.
This past Spring the uniformly requisite Crepe Myrtle and Knockout Roses were planted in the front yard. But the bees and butterflies seem to prefer the variety of blooms offered by the mixture of cultivated and wild flowers planted and potted around our property.
The yellow and white flowers along the wooded border are very popular at this time of the year. In fact, the normally skittish bumblebees remained relatively unperturbed by the looming camera lens while working this particular set of blossoms. On this day, the white flowers were nearly outnumbered by black and yellow bumblebees.
For this photograph, a Nikkor Micro AF VR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED was fitted to a Nikon D3 camera body. The exposure calculations under heavy overcast skies were an aperture of f/11, a shutter speed of 1/125th-of-a-second and an ISO of 1000. Although sold as a lens with a largest fixed focal stop of f/2.8 lens, the fine print in the instruction book indicated that this lens may automatically adjust by 1.6 f/stops even in manual mode.
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, waves to the delegates and guests prior to delivering an acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Democrats have nominated Obama to be their candidate in the 2012 presidential election.
"The truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising . If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I," the candidate said. "But when all is said and done – when you pick up that ballot to vote – you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation. Over the next few years, big decisions will be made in Washington, on jobs and the economy; taxes and deficits; energy and education; war and peace – decisions that will have a huge impact on our lives and our children’s lives for decades to come. On every issue, the choice you face won’t be just between two candidates or two parties. It will be a choice between two different paths for America. A choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future."
A Nikon D4 with a Nikkor AF VR 400mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens was used for this photograph. The exposure data included an aperture of f/3.5 and a shutter speed of 1/400th of a second with a ISO setting of 6400.
A Nikon D4 with a Nikkor AF Zoom 14-24mm f/2.8G lens set to the minimum focal length was used to create this ultra-wide-angle photograph. The manual exposure calculations were a hand-held 1/25th of a second, an aperture of f/5.6 and a film speed of 1600 ISO.
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