did i tell you about my energy or what?

Here are some of the spoils from this morning’s energy trek:

Not sure what this little shrub is called, but the little pale purple flowers were so pretty that I had to super-macro a couple: This is a spider right outside my room actually …. I didn’t have any faith the shot would be any good, but it’s a lot better than I had imagined. I’ve never shot spiders before, simply because I despise them … but they DO make magnificent photo subjects – especially when you can find one smack in the middle of their web like this. Black and white photography always seems to add a sense of intrigue to a scene … at least for me. And that doesn’t even quite describe the feeling … it adds something to a shot that you might not necessarily have had in colour. Take for example this subject – boring otherwise, but somehow made interesting by being shot in black and white: Something else I’ve never shot before – up close and personal in the center of a flower – fascinating: This one is also a favourite for 2 reasons: I didn’t know the peppermint shrub bloomed and secondly, the shot is flawless to me – the green is in-focus just enough to see the leaf shape and out-of-focus enough to give a nice DOF feeling: