Josh’s Photos

Walking around Jerusalem caught some interesting photos; lizard above, and amazing muster of storks.

The most striking aspect of this tree, even more than the red fruit, is the bright red bark.

There are a number of folk lore stories how it got the Hebrew name katlav (קטלב) all related to the red colored bark.

Latin names: Arbutus andrachne, common English names: aka strawberry tree, grecian strawberry tree, cyprus strawberry tree, eastern strawberry tree, common Hebrew name: קטלב מצוי

This was an interesting challenge to take this photo from within a pitch black tunnel - using the flash for detail of the interior but still retain the reflection of the greenery in the water.

What was really neat was I did not notice the two different heights to the ceiling until I got home to review the photos!

Aein Tanur (Hebrew) - a spring near Matah (Hebrew).
This photo was taken 2007-09-30

This photo was taken on 2007-07-10

This is taken at Nachal HaShofet - located near Ein HaShofet which is also named after Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.

Similar to my previous post Stop bugging me, I presume this to be a dragonfly of the family Odonata: Libellulidae, Genus Sympetrum corruptum - still my best guess.

Below a photo of a local bird perched on a branch.

These photos were taken on 2007-07-30

It was important to me to frame the sunset on Caesarea’s beach with Caesarea Maritima famous aqueduct. Because of the difficulty with taking photos with details of the sun as well as of the aqueduct I took two photos (30 seconds apart), with different settings (1/1000, F/22 and 1/200, F/10) and used software to combine the two to reach the desired results, above.

Update: Desktop wallpaper (1024×768) available.

This was taken on 2007-08-02

You know your addicted to your hobby when the first thing that you do when you see a spiderweb is run and grab your camera.

Had a lot of trouble getting this shot, since the auto focus would not work (it kept focusing through the web and on to the roof) and need to manually adjust. I was aiming for a shallow DOF (Depth of Field) around the center of the web and spider.

Another of my wife’s beautiful cakes, and as one of the tasters said ‘it tastes as good as it looks’.

I have been working on setting up props to enhance the visual display, here I used the flag and made sure to throw it out of focus.

This is a view from the Ischgl, on the Austrian side of the Alps.