Through My Lens

This shot of my friend Jimmy was taken on Wilburn Ridge in southwest Virginia.  On backpacking trips, where carrrying minimal weight is a must, I use a small Fuji point/shoot camera.  Another advantage of the point/shoot cameras on trips such as this is that they work well for landscape shots.  They have very short focal length lenses, allowing them to have a huge depth of field, even at wide open apertures.

Photo details: Fuji Finepix E510, focal length 4.7mm, f/6.4, 1/340 sec. shutter, 80 ISO.

A quick covering of snow fell today at my workplace at Pine Oaks Golf Course in Johnson City, TN.  The pond is not natural, but instead is excess drainage from the heavy rains we’ve received lately.

Photo details: Nikon D80, Nikon 18-200mmVR lens @38mm, f/11, 1/20 sec. shutter, 100 ISO, manual mode.