For my birthday I recieved some Kenko extension tubes. Without going into too much details, these put more space between your lens and camera body enabling you to focus on very close up objects. In this case it is a clementine. Because of this the exif data does not show all the information but I did use the standard 18-55mm kit lens.

Camera Info
Device: Nikon D3100
Lens:
Focal Length: 0mm
Focus Mode: Manual
AF-Area Mode: Single
VR:
AF Fine Tune:

Exposure
Aperture: f/0
Shutter Speed: 8s
Exposure Mode: Manual
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Center-Weighted
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 400

This is from the Sunnyvale Recreation Center. They look to have a crazy amount of chemicals in the water which make is very blue. Other than a few clones of bird poop its exactly how it came out of the camera.

Camera Info
Device: Nikon D3100
Lens: VR 70-300mm f/4-5.6G
Focal Length: 70mm
Focus Mode: AF-A
AF-Area Mode: Auto
VR: ON
AF Fine Tune:

Exposure
Aperture: f/16
Shutter Speed: 1/60s
Exposure Mode: Manual
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 200

Went to go take a picture of a hedge that interested me and this caught my eye. Not sure what it is but sure looked neat.

Camera Info
Device: Nikon D3100
Lens: VR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G
Focal Length: 35mm
Focus Mode: AF-A
AF-Area Mode: Auto
VR: ON
AF Fine Tune:

Exposure
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter Speed: 1/30s
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 200

Taken just outside our new apartment. The two tree canopies clashing made an awesome contrast. Simple and very pretty.

Camera Info
Device: Nikon D3100
Lens: VR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G
Focal Length: 18mm
Focus Mode: AF-A
AF-Area Mode: Auto
VR: ON
AF Fine Tune:

Exposure
Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/1000s
Exposure Mode: Shutter Priority
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 200

Also taken in the development I live in. I found the flower vine and clump of flowers nice so I blurred the background to draw attention to them.

Camera Info
Device: Nikon D3100
Lens: VR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G
Focal Length: 55mm
Focus Mode: AF-A
AF-Area Mode: Auto
VR: ON
AF Fine Tune:

Exposure
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/40s
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 100

Taken in the development I live in. These flowers bloomed the other day and really caught my attention. Especially since its early February.

Camera Info
Device: Nikon D3100
Lens: VR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G
Focal Length: 22mm
Focus Mode: AF-A
AF-Area Mode: Auto
VR: ON
AF Fine Tune:

Exposure
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/125s
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 100

This is an edit of last weeks picture. Still playing around with editing, I think its better but I need a lot more practice.

Camera Info
Device: Nikon D3100
Lens: VR 70-300mm f/4-5.6G
Focal Length: 70mm
Focus Mode: AF-A
AF-Area Mode: Auto
VR: ON
AF Fine Tune:

Exposure
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/800s
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 400

Yet another trip to Vasona Lake County Park in Los Gatos, CA. Trying to work on my composition and this was one of them. Lighting is blown in places.

Camera Info
Device: Nikon D3100
Lens: VR 70-300mm f/4-5.6G
Focal Length: 70mm
Focus Mode: AF-A
AF-Area Mode: Auto
VR: ON
AF Fine Tune:

Exposure
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/800s
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 400

This photo was taken on top of Communication Hill a month ago. I tried my hand at editing in Lightroom 4 with this photo, never done any editing before outside of the ViewNX 2 software that came with my camera. Leveled the horizon, played with the colors a little and cropped out the freeway as well as the left side out.

Camera Info
Device: Nikon D3100
Lens: VR 70-300mm f/4-5.6G
Focal Length: 100mm
Focus Mode: AF-A
AF-Area Mode: Auto
VR: OFF
AF Fine Tune:

Exposure
Aperture: f/4.2
Shutter Speed: 1/125s
Scene Mode: Auto (Flash Off)
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: Auto (ISO 500)

Taken at the San Jose Japanese Friendship Garden at 1:02pm. The single dead branch in a sea of green ones added some nice contrast against the aged wooden post.

Camera Info
Device: Nikon D3100
Lens: VR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G
Focal Length: 48mm
Focus Mode: AF-A
AF-Area Mode: Auto
VR: ON
AF Fine Tune:

Exposure
Aperture: f/5.3
Shutter Speed: 1/20s
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 100