Leaping Lab

A nice action shot of a black lab jumping after a tennis ball at the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, GA. Also proof that horizons don't always have to be level to produce a nice image! Full size shot is on my Flickr Photostream.

Car Show - "Self-Portrait"

Here's a shot I took with while at the car show in Canton Saturday evening. I like the reflection of the sky and the sunset silhouette of the Mustang in the chrome headlight of the roadster....I couldn't quite manage to get out of the shot, and you can see me and my camera peeking from behind the front wheel well.

Storm Rolling In

Just a simple shot of some nice puffy clouds over Woodstock yesterday.

Dad's Guitar Case

This is a detail of my Dad's old guitar case taken a little over a year ago. I like how the latch is showing a bit of rust. It adds some character to the shot. Exposure is 1/20 sec at f/5, surprisingly not taken on a tripod.

Icecrushers vs. Ice Pirates 8/6/09

Shot from the game last Thursday at Ice Forum in Kennesaw. Hockey is a pretty hard sport to shoot. Watch a game and try to follow the puck. Then try it through a viewfinder.

Wine Bottle

Just an interesting shot of a wine bottle on a rack I took with my 60mm Nikkor micro lens while playing around at Courtney's house yesterday. Starting to really like that lens.

Oak After Storm

This is one of my favorite shots. It was taken late last fall after a big storm had passed through. The sky was deep cornflower blue, and I went to an old church to shoot. This is another case when I got a better result shooting a subject I didn't know I would be shooting in the same location as the church. I liked the color version, but the B&W version I made in Photoshop definitely adds a certain element to the image. I ended up framing this and giving it away as a Christmas gift to several people. Courtney hung the framed print in her room and her best friend asked if it was an Ansel Adams. That was a good day. Exposure was 1/15th second (handheld!) at f/4.

Spider Spinning its Web at Night

I've been through about 450 photos today, and this is one of the few I feel like posting because it is interesting. I got the shot by experimenting. After taking dozens and dozens of pictures of a beautiful full moon over Lake Allatoona (and not being extremely happy with any of them), I saw a big spider on its web just to my left. The web was large and spanned a space between a pine and the dock on which I was standing. I took off my headlamp and hung it on the end of a stair rail to illuminate the center of the spider web and waited for the spider to crawl to the center. I put the SB800 speedlight on, and fired away. This was taken over an 8 second exposure. The flash froze the image of the spider when it fired, and over the rest of the time, it crawled up in a J-shaped route toward the center of the web. 8 second exposure @ f/2.8.

My First Published Image

A few months ago, I got an email from an iPhone/iPod Touch application called Schmaps!! Chicago. This picture is now part of the information for the John Hancock Building in that app. After a few posts of nature images, it was time for a good cityscape!

Hayfield in Tunnel Hill

I was back home taking care of some business with Dad's estate yesterday, and I drove down to the historic part of Tunnel Hill. Having grown up in the country, I'm partial to pastoral scenes like this one on the farm where the Clisby Austin House sits. The house served as General Sherman's headquarters during the early stage of his march to the sea during the War Between the States. I liked the elements of compostion in this shot like repetition, rule of thirds, and depth of field. Exposure was 1/200 sec. at f/11.

Andrew and Meredith

This is one of the shots from the engagement photo session I did with Andrew Wright and Meredith Day back in May. After Plans A and B fell through for our shooting spot, we ended up going to the Rock Barn in Canton, which turned out to be a great location. Exposure is 1/125 sec at f/5.6.