on the edge

[Georg R. Baumann]

Walking on my local beach, and nothing really to photograph for hours, I decided to look at the little things instead, and while looking around it caught my attention that those molluska appear to sit often enough right on the edge of little sand dunes. I do not have a macro lense, so my 14-54mm had to do the job and for that I had to crawl up an odd angle on a somewhat steep sand dune to get close. After taking a few shots, some sand collapsed over me and burried my head and camera in sand. <cough grins cough> So I went back to the shore and washed the sand of my camera in the incoming tide and continued shooting for half an hour, another good rinse in the kitchen sink at home took care of the saltwater. Thanks God for sealed camera bodies!

http://www.photodump.com/direct/laughingbear/jpeg_cmpr_atlantic-mollusk2web660.jpg

http://www.photodump.com/direct/laughingbear/jpeg_cmpr_atlantic-molluskweb759.jpg

[Asher Kelman]

Impressive!

Hope you got all the sand out!

Your camera is not sandsproof!

Asher

[Georg R. Baumann]

Yup! Sand is a killer, hence I decided to that somewhat drastic measure to drown her in the ocean, and you bet I was worried.

I wonder, does the little picture above still appear "natural" to the observer?

Reason I am asking is that I selected each of the 5 chaps and used a shadow highlight filter to give them a little more glow.

[Paul Bestwick]

Awesome Georg. You have inspired me....great shots.
Dare I say......a bit grainy !!!!!


Cheers,

Paul

[Klaus Esser]

Walking on my local beach, and nothing really to photograph for hours, I decided to look at the little things instead, and while looking around it caught my attention that those molluska appear to sit often enough right on the edge of little sand dunes. I do not have a macro lense, so my 14-54mm had to do the job and for that I had to crawl up an odd angle on a somewhat steep sand dune to get close. After taking a few shots, some sand collapsed over me and burried my head and camera in sand. <cough grins cough> So I went back to the shore and washed the sand of my camera in the incoming tide and continued shooting for half an hour, another good rinse in the kitchen sink at home took care of the saltwater. Thanks God for sealed camera bodies!

http://www.photodump.com/direct/laughingbear/jpeg_cmpr_atlantic-molluskweb759.jpg


what does she listen to? :-)

bst, Klaus

[Georg R. Baumann]

me.... humming scriabin <grins>

[Georg R. Baumann]

Awesome Georg. You have inspired me....great shots.
Dare I say......a bit grainy !!!!!


Thanks Buddy, I know, I still have a lot to learn to get the best possible out of my shots, did not have much time for that the past 2 weeks. Next week is photoshop week again.

[Klaus Esser]

me.... humming scriabin <grins>


should have known it . . :-) !