The Famous Palmer Ice Falls

Dad and I finally found time to go to the Famous Palmer Ice Falls. Pretty crazy stuff.

Agua

A fun idea....the execution needs some work.

Chicago Church

Old churches have great architecture and windows that make great light. One of these days I want to go shoot some of the huge ones in the city here...

CHicago

HDR

My attempt at HRD with out proper HRD software.

Playing with Hue

This is a picture I took while in MD with Sam and the fam. All 4 are the same image, but just changed slightly with iphoto. I thought they looked kinda cool.

This Desert Life

So, although I am somewhat sick of photographing the desert landscape, I decided to take a few more shots on a hike on Saturday.

I was just packing up to hike the 3 miles back to the car when I looked down and saw the sharp contrast on the base of these needles, so I took a few more shots.

Curtains

We live about ten minutes south of the halloween capital of the world. (can you believe it!?) So on Saturday we attended the halloween parade of lights. I was excited to try to get some nice light pictures... or at least play around with the lights. So When we got settled, I set up my tripod, and camera just before the parade started. This guy came up behind us and said, "looks like your all set up!" I guess I looked like a "real" photo nack, because he started asking me questions. I did my best to answer things like what my shutter speed was set at, and my F factor, and angels and whatever. Then I turned to see that he had REALLY fancy camera gear, and realized that I was not just talking to some amateur like myself. He then asked me what I had my "curtain" set at. uhhh.... I had no idea what he was talking about! So I was honest, and glad that I was because he took some time to explain to me what this meant.

Basically, your curtain determines at what point in the frame that your flash, flashes. There are two curtains (atleast on my camera). If the curtain is set at "First Curtain", then the flash will flash at the beginning of the shot. If the curtain is set at "second curtain", then it will flash at the end of the shot.

Here are some examples taken by me... not perfect but they get the idea across.

Okay so in this is a first curtain. If you see that the truck is more exposed at the front, but then the lights trail off into the blue all by themselves.


In this next one, the curtain is set at "second curtain". So the flash went off at the end of the frame, exposing the truck... so you can see what the lights are coming from.


pretty cool concept! -- ill have to work on it!

Frozen Green

We were in CO to experience an infrequent ice storm. here are some images I took during that storm.

Simple motion...cool effect

One more 2 photo pano from NH

Panorama made up of 12 or so images.

Looking up from the pond.

From the Tee Pee, taken with my old 50 mm 1.7

The Land

While in CO, I went to the Tee-Pee with Alma and Grampster. We took some great shots and enjoyed nice weather.

At the top of the ridge.

Looking southish from the top of the ridge.

Also on top.

below the pond near the road.

The stars and Tee Pee

Near the road.

goofin again

The Constellation has a long way to go to get back home to Baltimore this time.....so does flipper.

New Hampshire October 15 2009

Grandma Shauna and Papa Zeke took a drive up in the White Mountains and just went wherever Grandma's finger pointed. She chose wisely, except for Hurricane Mountain Road, which was like "Crazy Rollercoaster Road." Papa got sick. Here are some photos from the day. Grandma spotted the fungus and thought it was gross. I was excited she pointed it out and took a picture.

NH & Maine