Category: Photography

This May Be My Greatest Capture Ever

I am trying to get a grip on my lack of skill and discipline at categorizing my pictures, by actually trying to categorize my pictures, when I stumbled upon this one. I took it  last year just a month after Mom died, “died” such a blunt word but it is what happened none the less, and it is one of two photos I feel may be my greatest capture ever. It is of my Pop’s dog Miss Grace (A dog The Bride and I rescued off a busy interchange along a major interstate and gave her to my dad. It was love at first sight and she was a wonderful companion till my Pops death in December of last year) and The Bride. I know why I love it, tell me why and how it may move you.

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A New Challenge

Today a friend requested that I take photos of the birds that come to their feeder. They want to have them turned into prints and they will hang them through out their house. Well after taken some causal captures of a friends girls this afternoon I went over and looked over the place logistically, where to position myself, find when and where the sun was the best, etc. Turns out it is not in the afternoon so over the next several weekends I will be driving out to their place and trying my hand capturing birds in photographs. Here is one I took this evening and I am looking forward to a new challenge.

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Megapixel Myth Intro

I started taking photos in my youth with one of Canon’s first SureShot 35mm cameras. After years of taking little to no photos at all I got my first digital camera in 2004. It was a 2.1 megapixel point & shot HP my Pops gave me. Since then I  have gotten newer and bigger pixel cameras, most used point & shots, and have continued to learn from them. The one thing I have learned is not to chase the pixel, as in this never-ending “my camera is better than yours because I have more pixels than you” war that has being going on for well since there were pixels. Later down the road I will give you my opinion on why more is not better but for now the short answer is this: No camera can take a great shot. It is a combination of skill, learned or natural, following your passion (a.k.a. shooting what sings to you while challenge yourself with that does not sing to you) and technology that makes a great shot.

Here is two pics I took this afternoon with a 4 megapixel Canon point & shot. Since I like rusty things I like both of theses for the texture of them. Till the next time keep taking the shot and always Enjoy!

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A Few From Last March

Unlike this March last year’s was warm but very moist, as we had more days of heavy rain than I can recall in the recent past. When a friend ask me to take Engagement pictures of her son and his bride to be I said yes weather withstanding….then they told me where they wanted the photos taken. “Next time ask first” I thought. No matter I was all and since I was doing this as a favor and we could have a redo if need be. I headed days before the shot to scout the place out. It turned out to be  one of the few cold days that we had that month. Oh, and it snowed a light lovely-none-sticking-anywhere- snow off and on most of my time there. I took the below shots on the scouting trip. The building was part of a water supply facility and the stream one of its feeder streams. Maybe sometime I will tell you how we had to hike a few mile down and then out of the area on the day of the actual shot  due to the roads being flooded .

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Missing Me Damsel

With Spring  just around the corner I cannot wait to get some shots of my favorite things. One of the first will be my beloved Daffodils, go figure, and then hopefully some time soon some of my favorite flying things. I love when the bees show up and the Hummingbirds get up North but I really want to get some more pics of the wonderment know as a Damselfly. Till then here is one from last year.

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Ese’ s Weekly Shoot&Quote Challenge – Hot

For this weeks Ese’ s Weekly Shoot&Quote Challenge – Hot  I am using one of my photos and a simple poem I wrote. I looked at a lot of quotes on Hot and found several I loved but I was drawn toward this instead. In the last eighteen-months I have lost the only two people I know who unconditionally loved me and had many of my old convictions challenged as well. At times like this one truly feels they are on fire. I feel this is a go0d thing to be severally challenged, even if it is just us looking at ourselves and testing if we are true to our humanity and all that entails.  I wrote this at the beginning of that part of my personal journey.

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