Serenity Now

Deep in the shade garden amongst the hostas at Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Serenity now! Follow the path to to the bench overlooking the hosta glade. Relax, take in the beauty of the shade garden, serenity now.

For more relaxing bench shots, please see this site; http://fortheloveofbenches.blogspot.com/
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV

Babooshka from RAMSEY DAILY PHOTO Sent me this Arte y pico award . Thank you Babooshka.

1. You have to pick five blogs that you consider ‘deserving of this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and which contribute to the blogging community, no matter what language they are in’.
2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his/her blog to be visited by everyone.
3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given him/her the award itself.
4. The award winner and the one who has given the prize has to show the Arte y Pico blog so that everyone will know the origin of the award.
5. To show these rules.

Maya Photography
Evry Daily Photo
Spatter
A Little Piece of Me
D.C. Confidential

Just copy and paste the rules above, copy, save, and paste the pic award above Ramsey Daily Photo on the right, go pick your five.

Evergreen Drapes

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Fra la la la la....Christmas in June?

Although I like the brightness of this photo, it is too overexposed. Of course cropping would take care of this problem. I left it uncropped to show the upper edge overexposed and burned out in bright white. It doesn't help that the sky was brightly overcast in white/grey tones.

A good lesson to learn from this photo is to remember to preview your images, which i neglected here. If I had, I would have seen the bright white ares blinking as glowing beacons in preview mode, indicating over exposure. A good tip, preview and check to see if you get Blinkey the overexposure goblin. Take corrective measures, change the settings and reshoot. Histograms are another good way of checking for over / under exposures.

Shooting Mode Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/30

Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6

ISO Speed 200

Focal Length 85.0 mm

White Balance Mode Cloudy

Washbasin

The washbasin. The working crew needs a good place to wash up after a good day of maintaining the grounds and flower beds at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. They were provided with this architecturally pleasing washtub. Both images are HDR images.

Spitting Lion

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Shooting Mode Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/320 - Autoexposure Bracketing 0

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/1250 - Autoexposure Bracketing -2

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/80 - Autoexposure Bracketing +2

Av( Aperture Value ) 4.5

ISO Speed 100

Focal Length 30.0 mm

White Balance Mode Daylight

Washbasin

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Shooting Mode Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/250 - Autoexposure Bracketing 0

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/1000 - Autoexposure Bracketing -2

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/60 - Autoexposure Bracketing +2

Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6

ISO Speed 100

Focal Length 20.0 mm

White Balance Mode Daylight

Floating Tulip

More views from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. I thought this one turned out fairly nice in macro. I only wish I had a speedlight. Maybe Mrs. Claus is listening for a gift idea. ;-)

Shooting Mode Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/200
Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6

ISO Speed 200

Focal Length 68.0 mm

White Balance Mode Cloudy

Rain Dance

Fountain top.

Yes, we are still at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. I was there with Mitch from Mitchster.com, Matt and Bob. I lost my cheat sheet to incorporate html links. Check their blogs out of my Minnesota Photo Blog listing. There is so much to see at the arboretum, so much to photograph, so much to take in. I hope to retrun on another trip when the rose garden is in full bloom. I hope you enjoy my scenes from the MN Landscape Arboretum.

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Shooting Mode Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/160

Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6

ISO Speed 200

Focal Length 59.0 mm

White Balance Mode Cloudy

Periwinkle Pillow

Soft purple colors compliment a white iris. Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

Shooting Mode Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/250

Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6

ISO Speed 100

Focal Length 50.0 mm

White Balance Mode Cloudy

Water Spout

Green Eye

Shooting Mode Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/320

Av( Aperture Value ) 5.0

ISO Speed 200

Focal Length 41.0 mm

White Balance Mode Cloudy

Image Quality RAW

Invertible

Shooting Mode Manual Exposure
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/800

Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6
ISO Speed 200

Focal Length 50.0 mm

White Balance Mode Cloudy

Rock Creek

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Shooting Mode Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/125

Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6

ISO Speed 100

Focal Length 26.0 mm

Image Quality RAW

White Veil

Waterfall at Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. A symphony of cascading water over moss encrusted rocks.

Shooting Mode Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/20

Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6

ISO Speed 100

Focal Length 64.0 mm

White Balance Mode Cloudy

Image Quality RAW

Field of Tulips

Tip toe through the tulips! (more alliteration) A trip to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

Shooting Mode Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/6

Av( Aperture Value ) 9.0

ISO Speed 100
Focal Length 26.0 mm