Category: The Daily Shoot

  • Collecting Eggs

    Collecting Eggs

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    Here, I’m getting ready to collect the eggs. The Welsummer hens seem to be ignoring me. Prompt: Make a photograph using hard light today. Feature the crisp and strong shadows as a major element of your photograph. Continue reading

  • Fast Countryside

    Fast Countryside

    I cheated on this one. I tried several motion blur shots but didn’t get anything good – I can’t set shutter speed with my camera. Then, as I was sorting pictures from my UK trip, I found this. The blur was from the car moving. I liked it so much that I decided to use… Continue reading

  • Wide Pasture

    Wide Pasture

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    This is our view out the back pasture. Sheep are grazing in the background, but they’re hard to see. All the recent rains have really helped the grass. Prompt: Make a photograph using a wide focal length. Zoom, prime, and iPhone cameras all qualify for going wide today. Continue reading

  • Repeating Electric

    Repeating Electric

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    This is a close-up detail of our newly-installed PV panels. Prompt: Find a repeating pattern and make a photo of it today. Continue reading

  • Rule of Thirds

    Rule of Thirds

    Back home with a lovely view of Mt. Lamborn. Prompt: Make a photograph that uses the rule of thirds in a very obvious way and post it. Continue reading

  • A New Shade of Green

    A New Shade of Green

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    This is Black Sheep Power & Light. It’s not fully operational yet – we’re waiting for the final electrical inspection and installation of the new meter that will go backwards. It will provide shade for the rams and power for us. It’s a 3200-watt grid-tied system. Prompt: Today’s color is green. Make a photo of… Continue reading

  • Sherborne Abbey, Continued

    The ceiling at Sherborne Abbey was as close as I got to taking pictures of triangles. Prompt: Triangles keep the viewer’s eyes on a photo. Follow a triangle, and you see other elements. Make a photo with triangles. Continue reading

  • Sherborne Abbey

    Sherborne Abbey

    One of the places I visited in the UK was this lovely old abbey. It was very peaceful and beautiful. Prompt: Sympathy can be difficult to express in words. Make an image suitable for the cover of a condolence card. Continue reading

  • Big Pit Museum

    Big Pit Museum

    Here, we’re getting ready to go on the underground tour of the Big Pit Coal Mine Museum and Park in Wales. Coming from a coal mining area, I was very interested in how mining was done here. We were required to leave everything with a battery on the surface, so no underground pictures were allowed.… Continue reading

  • Welsh Wasp

    Welsh Wasp

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    I had a hard time finding an insect for this Daily Shoot until I spied this wasp eating a fallen cider apple. This was in Talybont on Usk in Wales. Prompt: Insects are everywhere. Photograph a bug in your environment (no spiders – they’re arachnids). (@DeForestRanger) Continue reading