Maks Swiderek

Cliche

There’s a lot of very cliche urban shots I try to avoid but some are my guilty pleasures. This is one of these ‘unavoidables’, mainly because of the interesting house finish on the left of the frame. That together with the nicely straight street and uniformity of the rest of the houses really screamed at…

Maks S

14/07/2014

Walks

aesthetics, cliche, guilty, house, houses, makss, old, Photography, pleasure, road, straight, street, Urban, warm, weather

300

A week or so before this photo, I bought 300 dice. Consequently, I thought it would be an excellent investment to buy 300 toy soldiers. Yep, 300… Turns out I needed 4 (photo) but I have great plans for the rest! Speaking of plans, this post is a taster to what I’m going to be…

Maks S

13/07/2014

Projects

army, blue, flash, green, gun, light, makss, model, Photography, project, red, scene, side, soldier, split, toy, war

Day 7: End.

This is the last post in this macro week. This one isn’t from the campus, though it is from the same day. I took the longer way home, past the ‘nicer’ houses which actually had front gardens. These flowers were close enough to the street that I wasn’t intruding too much. On a different note, I…

Maks S

12/07/2014

Macro, Walks

angiosperm, flowers, green, leaves, macro, makss, nature, petals, Photography, plant, pot, purple, street

Day 6: Xenophyte.

Coming to an end of the second Macro Week. Again, no idea what’s the name of this plant but it’s probably a xenophyte: thick leaves and waxy cuticle – A-Level biology is finally useful! Another reason why I hate spiders: their webs make right eye-sores in photos sometimes.

Maks S

11/07/2014

Macro, Walks

abstract, bokeh, green, identification, leaf, leaves, light, macro, makss, name, Photography, plant

Day 5: Manly Flowers

Again no idea what flowers they are but the tree, which was pretty much next to the plant from the previous post, was covered in this blossom so couldn’t not take a photo. This one is actually turned upside down since the blossoms were hanging down, it makes it look more interesting without looking unnatural.…

Maks S

10/07/2014

Macro, Walks

angiosperm, binomial, blossom, branch, classification, flowers, focus, identification, latin, macro, makss, name, Photography, pink, species, tree, wind

Day 4: Not a Flower.

This one caught my eye because the sun picked it out of the rest of the bush. I like having a camera directly behind some leaves or branches when looking at the subject. They bend the light and give some fun abstractions of the bokeh. They make macro photos more interesting meaning I don’t have…

Maks S

09/07/2014

Macro, Walks

abstract, bokeh, green, identification, leaf, leaves, light, macro, makss, name, Photography, photoshop, plant, technique, tip

Day 3: A Cuter Pink

Macro photography isn’t something I thought I would do often when I had my first DSLR, but after buying the 100mm macro lens I literally cannot stop taking macro photos. I have to say that my other, cheaper, 70-300 Tamron VC etc. is also good for macro. The most striking difference is that at a…

Maks S

08/07/2014

Macro, Walks

angiosperm, classification, flowers, ID, identification, latin, macro, makss, name, nature, Photography, pink, plant

Day 2: Flowerus Pinkus

Yes. That is as far as my flower knowledge goes…

Maks S

07/07/2014

Macro, Walks

angiosperm, classification, flowers, ID, identification, latin, macro, makss, name, nature, Photography, pink, plant

Day 1: Flowers?

I’ve avoided botany like the plague throughout my degree but I think it has caught up with me. I’ve been taking photos of flowers a lot, and do not have the first clue of their classification. For all I know, this could be an apple blossom… Help with identification would be actually really appreciated/credited!

Maks S

06/07/2014

Macro, Walks