Council Oaks

56mm | 1/100s | f/4 | ISO 100 | 3-image HDR

This was taken on a walk in Micanopy, FL.  I took a gamble on the composition, and I think it turned out well.

Where is this Temple?

24mm | 5s | f/6.3 | ISO 100 | 3-Image HDR Pano

Did you guess Tampa Bay, Florida?  This is Plant Hall, and is the main building at the University of Tampa.  It used to be the Tampa Bay Hotel, and one of the plaques talked about an old president staying there.  This is a pano comprised of 2 3-image HDRs.

Fire House

48mm | 1/200s | f/8 | ISO 100 | 3-Image HDR

This was taken in the Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans, LA.  

King of Busch Gardens

112mm | 1/1600s | f/4 | ISO 400

This guy was essentially posing for pictures.  You really can't go wrong.  The giraffe in the background was a nice bonus.


FYI, this was shot through very dirty glass.

New Orleans Lights

11.5mm | 30s | f/11 | ISO 200

This is one of those lucky coincidences.  While shooting a not very inspired composition of the Mississippi River and New Orleans, I set up my Gorillapod on the shore and took a long exposure.  After the first image had a very bright streetlight in it (I was blindly composing) I set up this shot.  The streetlight created this wicked starburst effect in the sky.  

Lines

70mm | 1/60s | f/4 | ISO100

This is one of my few B&W images that I shot in B&W.  It take a different eye to find good B&W images in the world, and while this isn't one of the best examples I've always liked this shot.  Taken at Myriad Gardens in Oklahoma City, OK.

Locked

31mm | 1/125s | f/4.5 | ISO100 | 3-image HDR

I cam upon this door when walking through the small town of Micanopy.  Its easy to sometimes overlook the little details of the world and focus on the grand scenes.  I am often susceptible to this as I take a lot of landscapes.  But I try to keep my eyes open for the small things.


The processing is a little extreme, but I think it fits this image well.  It's an action from Matt Kloskowski call the "300 look".  

Camden Memorial

10mm | 1/200s | f/6.3 | ISO100 | 3-image HDR

This past Christmas break I went on a tour of Camden, SC given by a coworker of my mom.  We stopped at this tiny church which now was in the back of a parking lot (pictures of the church will be posted eventually).  Next to the church was this little memorial.  The clouds were perfect that day for HDR.


I also learned on this tour that every other house in Camden is supposedly haunted.

Sarah & CJ

56mm | 1/250s | f/4 | ISO200

I recently went to Seaworld with Amy's sister Sarah and boyfriend CJ.  I brought my camera to take some nice pictures of us together to remember the trip by.  I don't personally like staged portraits but this picture jumped out at me from the bunch that I took.

Photo Of The Day (POTD)

The amount of pictures I process (and therefore post) has greatly diminished over the past few months.  This is due to many excuses, with a busy semester being the primary one.  But there should be nothing stopping me from spending the ~10 minutes to process and post one picture from my ever growing catalog every day. This method worked well with my Mediterranean Cruise pictures, with me posting 100 pictures to facebook in just over 3 months.  

So starting today (April 1st) I will begin posting a Photo Of The Day (POTD) on this blog.  It will likely not be a picture taken on that day, but you never know.  It may or may not come with a description, depends on the picture and the day.  I hope people (Miguel) enjoy seeing these pictures and this leads to me being more proactive with posting pictures.