Jan, 16
The holidays are great -but soon reality comes again and I find myself picking through the images of the season past.
It suffices to say I got a new lens for Christmas (50 mm f:1.8) and was having a great time using it. All but one of the pictures here was taken with it.
I had a bunch of fun shooting our train round the Christmas tree.
For a while I tried to get a nice long blur of the train’s light and then freeze it with bit of flash. I’m not sure I ever really succeeded but I got this far.
I love the limited depth of field I can get with the 50 mm and the nicely round lights in the background. The hard part was getting my face behind the camera that close to the floor.
Legos… what did we ever do before they were invented?
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas season and are now quite recovered. Now, I’m looking forward to the rest of winter and spring that will shortly follow.
Catagories: Everything-else, Photography.
Dec, 20
A bunch of it.
Not really the norm for Virginia -but no less enjoyed.
Best wishes for a white Christmas wherever you are.
Merry Christmas!
Catagories: Photography.
Dec, 12
The leaves are gone -the creek is cold.
The wind blows and then, the snow.
In these times we now remember, to find warmth follow the glow.
Happy winter!
Catagories: Everything-else, Photography.
Oct, 24
It started as a cool, cloudy, wet day in this big mid-westernish city. But leaves were falling and I couldn’t resist. I hit the woods but my luck was limited at best. I did find a fire lookout tower that provided a bit of a view…
Boring I know -but hey this is Ohio. Nothing like a mountain when you’re looking… Actually I should have done better -but at the moment I was standing, if you want to call it that, on a 2×3 foot platform 80 feet in the air with 40mph winds threatening to blow everything I owned over the side. Let’s just say I was thinking a good bit more about holding on than I was about taking the picture. I did get this.
Oh well, I tried. Things got a little better when I found Cedar Falls.
Not bad, but it would have been better with less beach. It does crop to a 4×5 format nicely though. Notice that overhanging rock -I brought it out of the black by a little flick of light from my sb-800.
This turned out ok too… lucky for me. Many of them didn’t. There was this other little issue of falling things -precipitation. Not that I mind really -it helped clear out the swarms of people and my camera doesn’t mind a few drops. But my lens… for some reason I didn’t notice the drops.
I lost dozens of images to the spots. Oops. Guess next time I will pay more attention.
Tags: color, flash, weather
Catagories: Photography.
