On golden dome

The dome of the Colorado state capitol in Denver was gilded in 1908 with 200 ounces of 24-karat gold ! We were able to tour the capitol site (outdoors only) on our visit there last October. It's an excellent example of neo-classical architecture, and has an interesting history behind it. I made this shot from our hotel room balcony.

Note: we have company with us for the next week and my time to post daily and to visit fellow bloggers will be quite limited - hence today's late post. I will find time to read all of your comments; I just may not be able to respond until later next week.

(70-200mm  f8.0 1/800 sec  ISO200)

(Day 51) All that sparkles is not ...

I thought I would work on a macro shot today. So I picked a piece of my wife's jewelry, and figured I could get some shots in a short period of time (I'm a bit rushed today since I'm refereeing in a hockey tournament). It turned out to be more difficult than I thought - finding a background, setting up some light that wouldn't cause too much reflection and wash-out, positioning the tripod/camera close to the subject, experimenting with different apertures, getting focus at a close distance from the subject ... I finally decided on a fairly large aperture which left the stone in focus vs trying to get the whole piece. (Oh - in this case, the jewelry is gold, with an amethyst stone).

(60mm f5.6 4sec ISO200)