When we lived in Avon Lake, OH we had a small park and walking path behind our house. Often times after it would snow I would go and try to capture an interesting picture. Unfortunately, I didn’t take many good ones. One morning to my surprise, it was foggy and I quickly snuck out to the path and got this.
ISO 125 1/1250 f/2.8 70mm (Canon 5D Mark II)
February of this year my wife and I went to Wisconsin to visit my sister and family. We’ve never traveled to Wisconsin and never realized how hilly the landscape is. I didn’t have time to take too many pictures but we were driving around and found this barn only feet from the road. The sun was setting and thought it would be a great picture opportunity. I love the sun rays coming through the branches. Enjoy.
Repost June 2011
Last July 4th the family and I vacationed in the Outer Banks. We were always told it had nice beaches and was very family friendly. I have to agree with that assessment. We stayed further down near Avon, NC which is away from the tourist stuff. It was a much more rural area with local shops and restaurants. Typically when we vacation we are on the go trying to see as much as possible but this time our intention was to relax and bathe in the sun. There are definitely picture opportunities and probably one of the more famous areas to take pictures is at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. I was hoping the clouds and sun would cooperate. Fortunately, the sun came out for only a few minutes and I was able to get this shot.
Repost June 2011
I was wanting to catch the rain drops as they fell off the pedals. The sky initially took a lot away from the flowers. I used Nik’s Silver Efex Pro 2 to improve the sky, this definitely help with making the flowers stand out.
Repost from May 2011
As I’ve stated many times in the past, I always enjoy taking pictures of old churches. I’m starting to have a good collection of them (maybe I’ll post them all together some time).
This church is near my home town and was taken early evening. This is always a great time to capture landscapes because the shadows are not contrasty and you can often times get great exposure of both the foreground and background.
P.S. I may start reposting some of my post from early last year. I have a lot more followers and think many will appreciate some of my early pictures (don’t worry, I have plenty of fresh pictures also).
ISO 160 1/1500 f/1.4 50mm summilux
Most of the time when I post pictures they are not pre-planned. I sit and go through the thousands of pictures I’v taken and I try to find something that is interesting, tells a story, or has some sentimental value. Often times it’s hard to find the “one” picture I want to post.
The picture I’m posting today, was taken last fall at Arlington National Cemetery. It was a beautiful late fall afternoon and a friend and I came across this large tree with many fallen yellow leaves. The contrast between the green grass, yellow leaves, and headstones was remarkable. It’s hard to call a cemetery beautiful, especially one like our National Cemetery but I’m sure most would agree that it is a great place to pay respect to our fallen.
ISO 160 1/360 f/2.0 28mm summicron
Recently, I was taking pictures of an old school building near my home town. It was in the middle of the day therefore the shadows were to harsh for landscape shots. Fortunately, I have neutral density filters that allow me to shoot during this time of day and allow for proper exposure of the sky.
This picture was taken of the schools chimney. It appeared ready to come falling down. Anyway, I liked the shadow of the tree on the brick.
ISO 160 1/90 f/4 90mm macro-elmar
My brother-in-law and I drove around yesterday looking for abandoned structures to take pictures of. We came across this old church that was built in 1898. It’s still in use but does not having running water and still had outhouses.
The sun was beginning to go down and I was trying to capture it in the picture. This can be a challenge because it will often causes everything in the foreground to be extremely dark. I decreased the shutter to 1/750 of a second, hoping to increase the detail in my foreground but also catch a glare from the sun. This doesn’t always look good but I think it worked well in this picture.
ISO 160 f1.4 1/750 50mm
The past few weeks I’ve been busy updating my logs so that I can take my boards this year. The next step will be gathering all the chart notes, x-rays, etc… It will be a lot of work but will be well worth it when I’m done.
I’ve posted a picture of this barn before but not from this angle. I really like the texture in the wood.
Here is the link to the previous picture. Also, the previous pictures, “Rustic Barn” was recently posted on Photopeka.
ISO 400 f16 HDR
I know I’ve mentioned it before but I really like Chicago, it’s definitely my favorite city. I took this shot a few years ago with my Canon 5d MrkII. It was a great day to shoot landscapes and I took this HDR shot with 5 exposures.
