Macro Photography - Spider

Does anyone know what kind of spider this is?  Photographed in Safety Harbor, Florida...Olympus OMD-EM10 with Olympus 60mm macro lens, f11 at 1/30 second.  This spider was less than 1/2 inch long.

When I get bored I go back to my backpack and fish out a lens that I haven't used for awhile and just use that lens exclusively for a while.  That's what I did near my house to get this photo.  This is also a good time to get nice pictures of spider webs that glisten with the morning dew.

First Look - New Olympus 60mm f3.8 Macro Lens

 My new 60mm (120mm) f2.8 Olympus Macro lens just arrived.  I am sharing a few handheld photos that I took around the house with the lens on my EM-5...all at f2.8.  I have not touched these photos except for cropping.  I was particularly interested in the bokeh that I would get.  Pretty good I think 

I can't wait to get this baby on a tripod and get some photos of flowers.  What do you think?

Photos from Church Shoot

Wednesday I went on a photo shoot with 5 other photographers to shoot the interior of Peace Presbyterian Church in Clearwater, Florida.

I decided to take along my 8 mm Rokinon Fisheye lens on my Nikon D7000  for the majority of the shoot.  I recently purchased this lens for opportunities just like this.  I decided to buy this lens as opposed to the much more expensive Nikon lens since I knew that I would rarely use this lens.  But, it is certainly the perfect lens for church interiors.  It allows the photographer to get everything in the photo from the base of the alter all the way up to the interesting wooden rafters. I converted this to monochrome in Nik Silver Efex Pro.

The stained glass in this church is spectacular.  Much of it has been donated by local congregants.  

Computer Repair Day

Today was spent working on my short list of computing problems that needed to be fixed.  I got a call a couple of days ago from a friend that was searching for my website, Crazy'AboutTravel.com I searched.  He was right...where was my site?  After attempting to fix the Domain Forwarding on my own to no avail I called the domain registy provider...then my site provider.  It seems that my Place Server names with my site provider had changed.  After another attempt and expert help from my domain provider,  Dotster I was back in business!

I also had a problem with messages being sent from my Outlook e-mail software.  This was a problem that just occurred for the first time after Feb. 22.  I have been using Windows 8 for about 6 months, but this was the first problem like this that I have experienced.  I had called my DSL provider, Verizon, a few weeks ago.  Frustrated, they threw me to the wolves telling my that Outlook using Windows 8  had not yet become compatible with Verizon.  After about a week not being able to send messages in the Outlook software I decided to call Verizon again.  This time I got a friendly lady someplace overseas who fixed my problem in a matter of minutes! Hooray!

I decided to celebrate my conquests by spending a little while sorting out some macro shots that I took with my photography friends at the house a few days ago.  Here are a couple of my favorites that I shot in a Smith Victor Light Tent.  Nikon D7000, Nikon 105mm Macro lens.  Enjoy..

More later....