Repost from July 2011

My wife and I spent 4 years in Des Moines, IA while I was receiving my degree.  The first couple years I was vey busy with my work and never showed much interest in photography.  Midway through my second year, my father lost his year long battle with cancer.  When he passed I inherited his film dSLR and lenses.  Not until later in the year did I finally gain an interest in photography.  Initially, I was just taking pictures in the operating room for the physicians I was rotating with.  I remember getting many compliments doing this and thought it came somewhat natural.  Canon came out with the EOS 20d (you can find the most recent version, Canon EOS 60D here).  I remember how excited I was to get this and try out my dads lenses.  Since then, I’ve traded, bought, and upgraded from the Canon 20d and his lenses.

Many years have passed since purchasing my first dSLR and I’ve now moved on to Leica M9 rangefinder camera but I still have many good pics that I took.  One of those was from a trip back to Des Moines a few years ago.  I was driving around Booneville, IA and came across this old railroad bridge.  At that time I was starting to show some interest in HDR photography.  Below is one of those pics (I also posted it in black and white).