eclipse photos

I can't very well say you saw it here first, as I've posted these elsewhere as well, but I managed a few shots of the eclipse last night.

I spent a couple of hours going out to the driveway and back taking photos with my zoom lens and a tripod. The weather here was quite nice, so I was able to go out and take pictures with just a sweater, no jacket. The eclipse had already peaked by the time I figured out how to tighten down the head on the tripod that I've owned for 17 years now, and was well on its way out when it occurred to me that I could eliminate the rest of the jiggle from pushing the button by using the 2 second timer.

Before:



During:



After (with airplane(plus you can see at the start of the airplane trail where the camera jiggled from my finger pushing the button)):



And so on:





Saturated:

moss

Taken with my Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG Macro Telephoto Zoom lens at Smith & Bybee Wetlands in Portland, OR.

Zoomin'

Over the last few weekends, I've had a chance to go out and put my new zoom lens to the test. Unfortuantely, I haven't had a chance to update this blog, so it languishes here, a sad piece of cyberrefuse...until now. Rather than bore you with verbal descriptions on what's supposed to be a photography blog, I'll just go ahead and proceed to posting pictures. Perhaps I'll turn this into a picture of the day sort of thing for awhile, as I've added more than 100 shots since my last post, and I don't have much time for the textual part of things. Here are my top 3 from last weekend: