I know that the focus is not spot on in this but I liked the delicate tracery of the veins so I decided to put it up.

The next few shots will be some macro work I tried with some leaves I picked from my garden and the newly acquired macro lens I was talking about yesterday. I’m in love with the wonderful world of macro now!

This image was actually a complete mistake. I was playing around with my newly acquired Minolta 100mm Macro lens when I inadvertently pushed the shutter release. As I was inside my house, in low light conditions the shutter was open for all of 30 seconds! I naturally thought the image would be one hell of a stinker but to my surprise I liked the result. So here it is. In case you are wondering what the blurred object is, it is the inner side of my Minolta 50mm prime lens! (A small corner on the left side of the photo was cropped out).

This was taken at the same place and at the same time as the one put up yesterday and yet this is almost exactly a mirror image of yesterday’s photo. Where yesterday’s image is peaceful, idyllic and beautiful this one is dark, foreboding and ominous. Can’t resist making a cheesy comment here, it is like good and bad, facing off each other. This scene was towards the north while yesterday’s was in the western part of the sky if I remember correctly.

Fell in love with the rich green of the meadow and its contrast to the blue of the sky. It would have been even better if I had been carrying a proper wide angle lens for this.

Yesterday, I finally got a chance to try a few night shots on the street with my Dynax 5D. This is one of the better ones. You will have to believe me when I say that those streaks of color in the foreground represent a passing car! (The top 1/4th of the image was cropped out to eliminate an over-exposed light source).

This was shot at the same time as those photos of skaters I had put up recently. The structure is the elaborate roof over Cologne’s main railway station. Try as I might I just could not compose this shot without that irritating pole at the right coming into the frame.

I wonder if any of you can guess what these shadows represent. Go ahead surprise me with your wildest guesses…or, is it too obvious? On a technical note, I thought of cropping the lower quarter of the image to remove the empty space and thereby tighten the image but thought against it in the end.