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Isolation Photo Project : Day 154

Marco photograph and wildlife photography have a few things in common; bulky heavy lenses, narrow depth of field, and the need to hold the lens very steady while photographing the subject preferably with the use of a tripod, and they are expensive. Fuji's R LM OIS WR macro and wildlife lenses are over $1000.

I had fun exploring the dried leaves and insects in my backyard with the Fujinon XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR macro lens that I rented for the weekend. The optical image stabilisation (OIS) was handy for the handheld focus-stacked images of Camilla's face.

Sunday 23 August, 2020 | Day 154 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro
Sunday 23 August, 2020 | Day 154 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro
Sunday 23 August, 2020 | Day 154 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF80mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro

Submitted for the 100DaysToOffload project and Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #111.

52 Week Smartphone Challenge : Week 34 : Colour without Colour

Tell a colourful story, but do it in black and white.

Yesterday Bhavana and I enjoyed a relaxing morning on the grass under the trees at Carriage Farm for Flounder Brewing’s beer garden. We drank a few half-pints of Flounder’s ales and shared a Margherita pizza from AMA Pizza e Cucina. I had my Fuji X-T2, XF27mmF.28, XF16-55 R LM WR, and a rented XF80mmF2.8 R LM WR OIS macro lens in my bag, but I always end up with a few iPhone 11 Pro images as well.

I don't remember what was going on, but I am playing on the meaning of the word colourful. One meaning that I found was "full of interest; lively and exciting".

I don't think any colourful language was exchanged with whomever; these two were conversing. I do know that red is the characteristic colour of Italian sports cars and the table cloth, truck and baseball cap in this photo are full of it.

theonlyd800inthehameau found the most colourful flower and then made it black and white.

This post submitted for my 52 Week Smartphone Challenge.

Isolation Photo Project : Day 153

Bhavna and I enjoyed a relaxing morning on the grass under the trees at Carriage Farm for Flounder Brewing's beer garden. We drank a few half-pints of Flounder's ales and shared a Margherita pizza from AMA Pizza e Cucina while listening to bluegrass music performed by the Raritan Valley Recovery band.

Raritan Valley Recovery | Saturday 22 August, 2020 | Day 153 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF27mmF2.8
Saturday 22 August, 2020 | Day 153 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF27mmF2.8
Saturday 22 August, 2020 | Day 153 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF27mmF2.8
AMA Pizza e Cucina | Saturday 22 August, 2020 | Day 153 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF27mmF2.8
Wood fired oven pizza | Saturday 22 August, 2020 | Day 153 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF27mmF2.8
Saturday 22 August, 2020 | Day 153 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF27mmF2.8
Saturday 22 August, 2020 | Day 153 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF27mmF2.8

Submitted for the 100DaysToOffload project.