Photo of the Day: Wildwood, IL

_DSC5742A, originally uploaded by BCMielke.

This was suppose to be a picture of a bird. I went out to the local rookery in hopes of finding some birds that were up close enough for me to take some photos. Well as you can see the only thing I got was a Gull. Got quite a few Gulls. For birders that is a good day. For a photographer, that's practice.

Thankfully I have started picking up flower pictures as my backup. I love macros and this one is just a tad different enough.

This was taken with my Zeiss 25 f/2.8 and my Nikon D300. It was converted in Photoshop CS3 and then sent to onOne's Photoframe for the finishing touches.

Photo of the Day: Wildwood, IL

Photo of the Day: Wildwood, IL, originally uploaded by BCMielke.

While watching Phil Mickelson I was drawn to this image and this angle. It was right in front of me and I kept thinking that would be a nice photo. When I finally went to take the picture I took pictures from all angles and none were better than the first.

Taken with the Nikon D3 with the 105 VR and SB-800 flash.

Finished off in Capture NX2 and then sent to CS3 where in Photoframe I added the texture and the frame to finish it off