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Tuesday, June 27, 2006


Flowing water. Used a Tungsten WB in processing, and quite a bit of other stuff with the colors. It's not even reasonably accurate, but it's colorful. I should have colored the rocks yellowish for complimentary colors, but I don't feel like it now.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 22
  • Shutter: 1.3 sec
  • ISO: 100

Saturday, June 24, 2006


A house up in the hills across the highway, near sunset. I got a film camera and was shooting with BW film in it and was dissapointed I didn't have Velvia or something to capture the colors, but luckily I also had my digital camera, and took some shots with both.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 2.8
  • ISO: 400
  • Shutter: 1/160th

Wednesday, June 21, 2006


A park in Durango, CO. We went there for a picnic the other day, this is from then. Stopped down to get the starburst around the highlight (the sun).

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 16
  • Shutter: 1/125
  • ISO: 400

Tuesday, June 20, 2006


A photo I took last year with my dad's old film camera, scanned and edited it today. It's not very good, but I figured since I took the time to edit it I might as well post it. I don't have the EXIF data because it doesn't exist.

Sunday, June 18, 2006


A toad in the grass.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 2.8
  • Shutter: 1/4000th
  • ISO: 400

Kids on the climbing wall. I got tired of the plain stop motion, kid up on the wall hanging onto fake rocks shots and braced the camera against poles on the ground to do a long exposure.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Canon 18-55mm
  • Aperture: 22
  • Shutter: .8 sec
  • ISO: 400

Friday, June 16, 2006


More day camp. Archery this time. I haven't felt the need to do a photo every day lately, so it's temporarily a 'photo-a-couple-times-a-week'. Thanks to everyone who leaves comments, I try but I've been slacking lately.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 4.0
  • Shutter: 1/3200
  • ISO: 200

Monday, June 12, 2006


My mom is helping with a cub scout day camp this week, today I went and practiced my photojournalism type shots. I learned that sunny days suck for shooting, I almost never shoot mid-day and when I do it's overcast. I might be sticking to evaluative metering for days like that, because my standard spot-meter method that usually works even for JPEG's didn't cut it.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 2.8
  • Shutter: 1/4000th
  • ISO: 200

A photo I took a long time ago in Colorado on a scout trip. It's outside of Durango. Processed in photoshop to exaggerate the color of the sky and some other stuff.

  • Camera: Canon A70
  • Aperture: 3.5
  • Shutter: 1/1000th
  • ISO: 64

Friday, June 09, 2006


The pool at the apartment complex where my sister lives. Haven't gone shooting all week, I should later today. Maybe I'll do two more photos to make up for the days I slacked off.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Canon 50mm 1.8
  • Aperture: 1.8
  • Shutter: 1/160
  • ISO: 400

Monday, June 05, 2006


Cliffs, on a cloudy night. This spot is about 15 minutes from here, my dad and I have gone there to get some sandstone rocks for the yard a few times. It's next to a well site, and there's cliffs and a lot of boulders on the side of a hill. Cool place.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 2.8
  • Shutter: 15 sec
  • ISO: 400

Saturday, June 03, 2006


Star trails. Going to reshoot a challenge entry with a different location, this was a test to see how it turned out with the 18-55.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Canon 18-55mm
  • Aperture: 8.0
  • Shutter: 1hr 10min
  • ISO: 400

Friday, June 02, 2006


A rose, with some green stuff behind it. Might enter in the 'Green' challenge.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 70-210mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 5.6
  • Shutter: 1/160th
  • ISO: 400

The cat again, this time a lot tighter composition because she was cooperating and holding still.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 70-210mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 5.6
  • Shutter: 1/100th
  • ISO: 400

Wednesday, May 31, 2006


An old metal pipe, with a hole in the side. I liked the pattern of the ruts in it that was broken up by the hole.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 70-210mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 32
  • Shutter: 1 sec
  • ISO: 100

Monday, May 29, 2006


I'm back from Denver - this is a shot of my sister and her kids that was taken this morning. This is about all of the family stuff for a while, I know it's boring. I was just not excited about photography at all and I didn't get out to shoot all weekend except a couple shots of the family. I have to try something new, but I haven't decided what.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 4.0
  • Shutter: 1/200th
  • ISO: 100

Saturday, May 27, 2006


My niece, Valerie, holding my sister's newborn girl Emma. I had better shots but I just picked one of the first I saw on this PC.

Friday, May 26, 2006



I missed a few days because we came to Denver to visit my sister and her newborn baby. I got to use the public computer here, and I must say, I'm lost without Photoshop. Two pictures today to make up a little, the first is a statue we found along the way in Pagosa Springs and the second is my niece. I'm going to let the EXIF slide, as I'm too lazy to find out the data for these shots, and I used RSE to convert them from RAW.

Monday, May 22, 2006


The cat.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 70-210mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 2.8
  • Shutter: 1/3200th
  • ISO: 200

Sunday, May 21, 2006


A mock-up poster I made in the style of the RideBMX ones they give out for free in the magazines. I hope no one in the magazine sees this, they'd slap me for making such an abomination and putting the name of their mag on it :p

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 3.5
  • Shutter: 1/200th
  • ISO: 100