1:50 pm

My brother and I went hiking the other day. Of course I brought my camera along, my heavier camera at that. (I miss the d40, that camera was so light you didn't know it was there.) What's funny is I took this photo 15 minutes into the hike, and then didn't really take anymore pictures. Even though we hiked 8 miles and took roughly 4 hours to cover it. 3 hours going up and 1 going down. Goes to show the effect gravity has on us all.

I wanted to give the water a flowing effect, so I set the shutter to speed to 1 second. My tripod wasn't handy, and I didn't want to risk a slower setting. All too often photos will look great till you get home and see how much your hand wobbled as you took the shot. That was not going to happen this time. To compensate I increased the aperture and fired away. What you see below is what I got.

Bimmer Time!

There is something about bimmers that are just awesome! During summer time that is especially true. Haven't you ever had the urge to jump in and just go for a drive? With no end in mind just out for the journey! During some of those drives I have found some amazing photo locations. So even if you don't have a bimmer, jump in and go!

PS: For those of you wondering why I said bimmer, not beamer time, let me clarify. I beamer is a BMW motorcycle, while a bimmer is a BMW car. Don't ever get it mixed up again.

PPS: This picture was heavily edited using Picnik. If you haven't tried it out you should. It has several free tools that really let you play with your photos to get the look you want. While I generally don't like to over edit my work. I decided to have fun with this picture and make a sort of poster out of it.

the Wilburs

Last summer I had just gotten serious about photography, I had recently purchased Nikon’s 35mm DX lens so that I could explore the world that prime lens’s offer. One of my friends had invited me to her wedding. Naturally I brought along my trusty d40. I wanted to exploit the joy and happiness that I knew I was to find that day. Yet at the same time respect the wedding photographer and stay out of his way as he did his job. Thankfully my friend knew I could take a decent photo, and gave me the opportunity to snap a few shots of her with her new hubby. It was just getting dark so I had my aperture wide open. The photo below was shot at ISO 400 and 1/500 of a second. As yesterday marks her one year anniversary I dedicate it and this post to another happy year for her and husband.

as always lYl