Photo of the Week 2026-06-01

 

I'm enjoying the Sigma 105mm f/2.8 Macro I picked up a while back from a FB Marketplace listing. I'm not sure if the seller didn't realize what they had or if they just wanted to get rid of it ...  no matter, a win for me.

 

' a touch of pink '

The 105mm focal length, wide f/2.8 aperture and OS (Sigma's Optical Stabilization) make it easy to use, hand held and I've been taking advantage of the spring flowers blooming at the cottage, both in the garden and wild on the property.

 

Shallow Depth of Field, DoF, selective focus, bokeh, background blur are all photography terms that have returned to my vocabulary in recent days ...

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2026-05-25

 

' waking from winter '

From a walk in the Arboretum to see what was springing back after a long winter ... 

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2026-05-18

 

' serviceberry in sunlight ' 

Driving local backroads in spring, I had an idea to capture a lone serviceberry in isolation blooming among the barren tree trunks of other wetland dwellers.
While unable to find the scene I had envisioned, there were variations of the theme available to show their brightly delicate spring blossoms.

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2026-05-11

 

' Revolve Spring Morning '

From a morning walkabout with camera (after coffee of course) on our first visit to Revolve Farms this spring ... for Mother's Day. 

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2026-05-04

 

Randomly, but quite frequently, I delve into my backlog of images, either those marked as candidates for processing, or those processed and marked candidates for posting. The number of marked images keeps growing and this week, in an effort to not leave them all to languish in digital purgatory I thought to choose one from May of a previous year, 2017 in fact.

 

' roadside recollection '

A familiar location along the road on drives to the cottage. Sometimes it calls out a challenge for me to stop and attempt a print-worthy capture. This may have met the challenge, at least well enough for a trial print. We'll see.
 

DJE