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Cherry Blossoms Velvia

May 9, 2015

Blossoms were great this year, here are a few blossoms that I took my my Fujica AX-3 on Velvia 50 fujifilm. I wish there was more pink here in Richmond but most of them were white or slight pink. There is quite enough places to see blossoms in Richmond. These were taken at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Lakeside. The gardens had installed Cherry trees all around the pond which is new this year. They are not all that amazing but in a few years when they grow and become larger they will be great.

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Some blossoms had fallen on the pond in the Japanese garden…

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Peak of Fall

February 16, 2015

During the peak of the fall colors in Richmond I went out with a photography group to Maymont Park which is open to anyone and is a great place to walk around really. I took a few pictures that day and didn’t really like any of them. I took this and really enjoyed it and actually would like to try it again some time.

I took it with my Canon 60D on the 17-55mm 2.8 EF-S lens at f/11 and 1/125sec and 200 ISO.

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Meadow Farm Monochrome

February 2, 2015

On photo walks or days I take more pictures with my digital I am going to do more posts like this where I have multiple photographs. I have a local park where it has a lot of woods to roam in like my home. It is a lot closer and it’s quite except for the highway in the far distance. It has been chilly a lot recently but that day got cold really fast as when I left my hands were white and very dry.

My set up was my Fuji XPro-1 with the 35mm 1.4 lens

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On the back side of the park there is a small fenced in pond that I think belongs to a farm that had this bent entrance with this sign.

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These straight trees with not a whole lot of foliage gives great black and white landscapes.

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In the Pine grove there is a small clearing with a few benches if you want to sit and read a good book.

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Based around a farm that is historic in nature for the area, you can have a tour in the old farm house.

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The pod was frozen over and these geese looked like they were having a good time sliding around.

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Fujica AX-3 at the Isle

January 29, 2015

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We went out in the fall to Belle isle to take pictures and enjoy some more fall foliage. I left work a little bit and my girlfriend had just resigned from her job so it was more of outing because she was in a great mood. We took our cameras and I still had some Velvia film in my AX-3 to shoot on the fall colors. The camera was set up looking at the city skyline. I decided to take a picture of the set up with my Fujifilm Xpro-1.

Xpro-1 with 23mm lens, f/1.4, 1/4000sec, ISO 200.