Archive for July, 2009

NAPP Photo Walk

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

The World Wide Photo Walk was July 18th and I joined in for some fun. The route was around Fairly Poplar in down­town Atlanta. It was a big group of 50 pho­tog­ra­phers — from hob­bi­est to pro level — walk­ing around town tak­ing pho­tos for fun. Here are a few of my shots for that day.

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We wrapped up the walk with lunch at Taco Mac. I hadn’t been there in over a year… and YES, it broke every diet rule. Of course that means it was yummy :D

We talked pho­tog­ra­phy and even came to find out that some of us also shared the love for rid­ing. Who knew we had a town called Juli­ette? Appar­ently it’s most known for being the movie set for the series “A Killing Affair” and “Fried Green Toma­toes” (which I’ve never seen but most of you prob­a­bly have). The Whis­tle Stop Cafe is there. Juli­ette also has a really cool build­ing that is home to Les White and is now the Old Mill Motor­cy­cle Museum. I made my longest road trip so far on my bike to visit the town last week. Fun ride! Thanks Ken for the tip!

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Something Beautiful

Friday, July 24th, 2009

At least I thought so when I noticed this eccen­tric look­ing tree in the open field. Looks like the wind was blow­ing south all the time and it’s branches started to curl up. But there is some­thing grace­ful about it. It looks beau­ti­ful to me.

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Bloody Vampires!

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

I blogged pre­vi­ously about the Grand Cen­tral photo shoot with a vam­pire. Orig­i­nally I hadn’t planned on pro­cess­ing this photo, but I changed my mind and decided to make it a bit more inter­est­ing with­out going heavy on the gore. Noth­ing wrong with gore, but it’s easy to go over­board with it (seems highly over­done these days) and I wanted to have a cin­e­matic feel — dra­matic, while still keep­ing it easy on the eyes. Hope­fully I’ve accom­plished that.

I pur­chased the­ater blood for this photo shoot but for­got to use it! So I cre­ated it in post processing :)

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Inspiration Point

Friday, July 10th, 2009

There is a build­ing in Seat­tle that I’m crazy about. I go there often and it’s fea­tured in much of my work: Seat­tle City Hall — specif­i­cally, the Red Room and adjoin­ing stair­case. Some days I sim­ply walk through the space to be reminded of why I love light, color, archi­tec­ture, and pho­tog­ra­phy. It’s my Inspi­ra­tion Point.

When Mar­i­lyn and I were in NY I started exper­i­ment­ing with zoom­ing (see pre­vi­ous blog entry Times Square’s “Spec­tac­u­lars”). And then the other day I decided to try out the tech­nique with archi­tec­ture. Of course I went to my favorite spot. The results — won­der­fully abstract — are unusual, col­or­ful, shapely, excit­ing. Each zoom result is unique. The slight­est change in posi­tion, light, man­ual zoom speed, and expo­sure can cre­ate an entirely dif­fer­ent look. Super fun to shoot.

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Images avail­able with a RF license: Flight of Color, Abstract Archi­tec­ture, Abstract Archi­tec­ture 2, Abstract Archi­tec­ture 3, Abstract Archi­tec­ture 4, Abstract Archi­tec­ture 5, Inte­rior Abstract, Abstract Archi­tec­ture 6