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Mother sitting at a bench in front of a street art mural in Cozumel, Mexico. While the MV Explorer was docked in Cozumel, we attended a field program that included Josefina’s Mexican cooking class. On the way back to the ship, we passed this mural where the blue colors matched her clothes.
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Six-Years Ago Today. Backyard Springtime Nature in New Jersey.
During my afternoon backyard walkabout, I saw an American Robin with a large grub in its mouth. I think the nest is in the nearby Ceder tree. The Fuji camera does emphasize the Robin’s bright orange breast colors.
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While driving into Yosemite National Park for a photography workshop with Michael Mariant I noticed something red off in the woods. I stopped to retrieve it if it was some trash but instead found these strange red objects growing out of the ground. When I showed the images that I took to Michael, he told me that they were Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea) flowers. The Snow Plants don’t have any chlorophyll and derive their nutrition from fungi living under the soil near conifer trees.
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I take the cactus in for the winter and rarely see them blossom. I was about to move them outside when I noticed one of the small barrel cacti had small flowers. I couldn’t get the level of detail I wanted with a single macro image. Instead, I made a composite of 24 focus stacked images using a Nikon Df camera and 105 mm f/2.8 VR macro lens (ISO 100, 105 mm, f/4, 1/125 sec) and SB-910 flash (EV -2). The images were processed using Helicon Focus: [Method B (depth map, R = 8, S = 4)].
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On one of the days that the MV Explorer was docked in Le Havre, France I went for a photowalk in Paris with Thomas Paris. While walking through Parc de Bercy we came upon a Capoeira performance. I had never seen this before. I was told that it is an Afro-Brazilian form of martial arts that combines dance, acrobatics, and music. The two performers did their choreographed acrobatic dance moves to the beat of an African drum.
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