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Brooklyn Botanic Gardens-May 9, 2011 Part 2

These are the last of my photos from my class at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. I mentioned before that I wasn't too impressed with the class. My teacher really didn't teach me anything that I didn't already know. She did, however, say one thing that stuck in my head: "Expose for the light." She meant that it's okay if only one part of the photo is correctly exposed and the rest is in shadow, because it will show the drama of how the scene really looked. So I really tried to focus on doing that in the last class.









I couldn't decide which of these I like better, so I'm just going to post both:



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I was really obsessed with the shadow of the petals on these flower:





I also liked the shadows of the branches on the tree:

Brooklyn Botanic Gardens-May 9, 2011 Part 1

I finally edited my photos from my last class at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. I have a lot of photos, so I am going to break them up into two posts.

I wish the bee were sharper here, but it was really fast.



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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

For mother's day, my mom and I went out to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, which is part of the Gateway National Recreation Area in Queens. Even though we only walked the flat two mile loop, it took us two hours because we stopped to take so many photos. There were tons of birds. I don't know anything about birds, but, according to what I read, there have been 330 different bird species spotted there in the last 25 years. Here are a few of my favorites.














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