Plaza on Bulb

Plaza on Bulb

This was another one taken for my camera club meeting this month for the holiday/ winter theme. It's amazing how many people come up and ask you about your photography and to see your shots when you have a foot long metal wire with a christmas tree ornament tied one one end and ducked taped to your lens. I then had to plant my tripod on the only flat part of the center lane, leaving me in the bushes. 

Ol' Lonely Night

Ol' Lonely Night

This was taken at my University....no, it is not just a coincidence, I take many photos there. I was the only one on campus due to the winter break and it being a Saturday. This is right as it was in the thick of the snow so my camera got nice and wet. It was actually fairly late in the night and was pitch black out, the light background was due to a huge amount of light pouring from buildings on the opposite side of the hill and with some help from saturation. The tree still has many visible details due to, you guessed it, HDR.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you all. I hope your year was just as enjoyable as mine was, minus the homework and hangovers. For this New Year's Day all I have is this random picture that has nothing to do with ringing in the new year. 

Coyote Night

This Picture was taken at my university one night and I had to park up by those lights in the mid-left of this photo. I then had to walk around the pond to get this shot. MWSU has a large biology and conservation department so they have a lot of these natural ponds with woods surrounding them, but you know who likes woods and ponds more than biologists and conservationists? Foxes and other rabid dogs that would like to eat my face. This was one of the longest 30 second exposure ever because by the time I had my tripod set up I started hearing howling fairly close.This is about the third experience that I have been someplace at night in a wooded area and have heard a howl.I now take a golf club with me when I go shooting at night, in case a wolf(or crazy downtown man) wants to take my face off.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Time Warp

"After I get all these picture organized I have loaded to Flickr I hope to be able to post a few new pictures everyday."- This is what I posted on December 16th, and with only one post since then it seems that I have lied, sometimes lying is acceptable (sure Santa is real), but this time it is not alright and I apologize. Well Today is an extra special Christmas post, and if you are one that does not celebrate that kinda thing, then I'm sure you can still appreciate the cool things that can be created from all those lights everywhere. This was taken at the Plaza in Kansas City, my camera was on a tripod and I had my 18-55mm lens on. I then zoomed from 18 to about 35mm to get this effect. I have many more festive shots I experimented with, but am not quite ready to share them with the world quite yet. 

Random Downtown St. Joseph

Finals are finally over, but before I go off to drink beer for a month straight, I needed to make one last post on this fabulous bandwidth here. I have also uploaded every single image I have up to Flickr and will be downloading everything off of my computer onto a huge 2TB external HDD along with burning the important stuff to DVD and keeping those at my mothers house so I can get that 2 hard copies and one off site copy. I did not have anything in particular to post today, so I will just post these few random favorites I have taken over the last month or two from downtown.

After I get all these picture organized I have loaded to Flickr I hope to be able to post a few new pictures everyday. 

 Alley Beauty

This is outside an art studio downtown in the side alley.

Yellow Cab Co.

Gutter

I was listening to a photographer on a podcast state that the best pictures he has ever shot has came from heavy rain conditions, he however did not mention how miserable it is to shoot in the rain. You can't tell from this long exposure, but it was pitch black with very fast winds, I had an umbrella over my camera leaving my self exposed to the rain(priorities), which caused for some very awkward looks from some of the drunks leaving.