On Sunday morning Shannon and I went down to SunnySide Garden Center to pickup a birthday gift for Janine.  While we were there we picked up a small 3” pot of Venus Fly Traps.  I thought they’d look really cool macro’d up so I pulled out the strobes and took a few shots today after dinner.

This guy is my personal favorite, I think I’m going to get it printed up and hang it somewhere in the house:

The rest of the shots are available in this set: 2009-04-20 – Venus Fly Trap Macro or you can just check the previews in the slide show.

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Tuesday night Wes and I got together and did some shooting for some new company pictures.  Wes had this cool idea that we should be breaking through a white seamless backdrop and it worked even better then I had envisioned they would turn out.

The lighting setup was fairly simple:

I really like the results we got, they almost look like they were done in photoshop.

PS: Leaning over to get through the tear while holding a D3+70-200 VR is hard on the back, that combo is heavy.

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Last night’s dinner was a fairly simple affair but I thought I’d share it since it looked pretty good and tasted even better.  It consisted of a grill steamed salmon filet with lemon and dill, roasted garlic brown and wild rice (packaged), lightly steamed broccoli with grated Balderson 3 year old white cheddar.

The salmon is super easy to make.

• Lay down a double layer of foil
• lightly oil the foil with olive oil
• lay the salmon filet down and season with salt, pepper, and dill  (fresh or dried)
• Slice 1/2 an onion into rings and lay the onion rings on top of the filet.
• Thinly slice a lemon and lay the slices on top of the onions
• Put a single layer of foil on top and crimp the sides up tightly
• Cook on the top rack in a 400 F grill for 20-25 minutes.

Categories: Culinary Experiments
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