Recent Photo Thread

I think even the most seasoned pro would be hard pressed to take good landscapes in that kind of dull weather. Such a cute town though, that I just had to make a model of it.

Thanks for the boosting! I had to steal it and use it for my Facebook timeline picture. :D

Am I the only one that looks at this shot and immediately begins deciding where to place the AT guns, MG bunkers, rifle teams?

I'm looking for feathers, treasure chests, and Templar forts.

Well, it is a place where there were heavy gun emplacements during the Civil War. The town is Harpers Ferry, WV, and I'm standing on the cliffs at the southern face of Maryland Heights.

My favorite picture of the whole vacation-- my father-in-law trying to take a picture of a bird and not being able to work his camera:



The bird looks bored.

Also, here's a pretty shell:

Here's one I took for practicing in lightroom with my new camera and lens.

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Did you light that with a remote flashgun?

Nope, the sun was just to my back. I messed with a lot of stuff in lightroom though, including removing some of the fisheye-ness.

Some from this morning's outing, trying to catch that good light in the hour after sunrise. Which seems like it should be easier late in the year, but when one just doesn't want to get out of bed...

For me, everything is Minecraft.

I went out to western Nebraska for Thanksgiving and stupidly forgot all my cameras. Saw all kinds of wildlife and there were some amazing sunsets, but I was only able to shoot with my phone. So, so dumb. I can't imagine what these two shots would have looked like if I'd had my DSLR with me:

Took this peekture in my sister's backyard.

Some of today's walking-around photos:

I went on a hike today and took a few photos, but this one is probably my favorite.

Speaking of that, I decided this morning that I would take the camera out and intentionally get lost. After about seven and a half miles of wandering, some explorative trespassing, and after a large breakfast, I think I came away with some good shots.

Few more from that series if anyone wants a look.

I took this last week at the Volcanoes National Park on the big island of Hawaii. This is a view of Kīlauea spewing volcanic gas at night. As you can see, the lava below lights up the smoke quite well. Very cool place to visit.

Here's another photo from my Hawaii trip that I thought turned out quite well:

And a few more:









More later.

I attempted to capture a series of night shots to create a star trails image and it did not turn out well. It was a learning experience though, hopefully my next one will be better.

More walking about photos.

Bought some macro photography stuff and took pictures of some stuff around the house:

Looking into a camera lens:


A dusty Gundam model:


A tarantula (not mine):


Journey's eye:

Pixel Bricks

Some kind of Lego-like thing. They interlock across all 6 sides. They come in different colors, including clear and are meant (i think) for making pixel art like sculptures. This one was of the Skyrim home icon that my friend made.

Actually, turns out they are called Pixel Blocks:
http://www.amazon.com/Pixelblocks-I...F8&qid=1355905932&sr=8-3&keywords=pixel brick

So I was in Hong Kong over the weekend.

I really liked this one from the recent snowfall.

Went to the Ai Weiwei exhibit at the Hirschorn:

Bowls of pearls:



A pile of ceramic crabs:



A surveillance camera in marble:

Stumbling about with the camera this morning.

Messed around with the new camera over Christmas break.





First one seems a little washed out, but I didn't edit them at all. Need to work on my post-processing. I don't shoot in RAW because most of my stuff is just family photos that turn out well enough for printing/posterity and I can't dedicate that kind of time to processing them all. I should probably swap over whenever I'm doing something I might want to really mess with.