A wet and rainy day provided me the chance to catch up on post-processing some photographs and updating some photography web sites I belong to.  It also gave me the chance to play around with a White Pine cone I brought inside from the backyard.  I spent  quite a bit of time and utilized a number of tools to photograph the ‘cone’.  First I put on my 105mm f/2.8 lens to get up close.  The pine cone was wet from today’s rain, so I tried a polarizer filter to cut back on the shimmer (without much success).  Then I threw the pine cone into the microwave to dry it off, but that just drew out the sap (and made the house smell like pine trees!).

I also experimented with reflectors and diffusers, even used a flashlight to see what would happen.  I’m not sure I achieved much in the way of a photograph but it was certainly a useful learning experience, especially on a nasty weather day like today.