I captured this 'Lubega Dark Orange' Dahlia at the CSU Annual Flower Trial Garden in Fort Collins, Colorado. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

I captured this ladybug at the CSU Annual Flower Trial Garden in Fort Collins, Colorado a split second before takeoff.  (Zuiko 50mm macro, f/8.0, 1/640 sec., 400 ISO, extension tube, handheld) OLYMPUS E-30 DIGITAL CAMERA

Today’s Photo of the Day was captured at the CSU Annual Flower Trial Garden in Fort Collins, Colorado.  It is the dahlia variety ‘Lubega Power Yellow-Orange’.  I captured this using an f-stop of f/4.0, ISO 64 with a shutter speed of 1/60 second. [...]

Today’s Photo of the Day was captured at the CSU Annual Flower Trial Garden in Fort Collins, Colorado.  It is the dahlia variety ‘Grandalia Pink Ice’.  I captured this using an f-stop of f/2.8, ISO 64 with a shutter speed of 1/400 second. [...]

Today's Photo of the Day was captured at the Perennial Garden at the University Center of the Arts in Fort Collins, Colorado.  It is the phlox variety 'Flame Blue'.  I captured this using an f-stop of f/2.8, ISO 200 with a shutter speed of [...]

I captured this Gazania back in August of 2009 using my first $500 digital SLR.  It was an Olympus E-500, outfitted with an 8 Megapixel Sensor.  As you can see, this image demonstrates that spending $2,000 - $4,000 for a camera body with a [...]

This is a shot of my wife's red geranium that I captured while testing a new Lensbaby 56 lens.  For contrast, I shot it with the blue sky in the background.  In my humble opinion the red against blue was pretty dang amazing.