Nikon D800 | Nikon 24 – 70 f2.8 lens | ISO 100 11/160 sec @ f8.0

Before you get concerned about my mental state and say WTF are you doing showing us clothes pins, let explain and then you can certainly question my current state of mind. 🙂

I blame it on my new 365 project.  I am now keenly aware that I need to shoot things that I might otherwise pass over.  So yesterday morning I was in the back yard photographing another object / entity (more for a later post) when I noticed these three clothes pins on the clothes line.  Jeanne often hangs things out on the line to air dry.  Actually if you click on the image it will show a larger image and you can see some great detail.

Nikon D800 | Nikon 105 macro f2.8 lens | ISO 100 1/60 sec @ f14

I thought they looked kind of neat so later in the day I put the 105 mm macro lens on and went back out to see if I could get even more detail.  The first thing I noticed was that it was hotter than the hubs of hell so I didn’t stay very long and set up my shots.

The second thing I noticed was there was a natural (well Jeanne did it by accident) grouping of clothes pins.  Either in groups of three, groups of two or single pins.  I also was interested by how weathered these pins are.  I don’t know how long they’ve been on the line but it looks like a very long time.

Nikon D800 | Nikon 105 macro f2.8 lens | ISO 100 1/160 sec @ f7.1

I can also hear my friend Dana saying, “Why didn’t you make these in black and white?”  I did think about that for awhile and certainly the texture of the wood and the line would do well in B&W but I also liked the green and gold (color of my burnt out yard) as a background so I opted to leave them in color.

Check back tomorrow please and I’ll do my best to have something a little more interesting to show you.  Enjoy the beginning of the work week.  Forecast looks to be another HOT one.  Be careful.