May
23
2008

This empty playground at the top of a hill/sand dune was overlooking the ocean and it seemed like a strange spot to have a playground. Of course it was the winter when I took this picture so maybe in the summer more people use it but on this day of least it seemed that it may as well have been in the middle of nowhere.
Tags: Field, Playground, Reeds, Sony H1
May
05
2008

It was a very rare day in January when I took this photo. It was 75 degrees out and people were out and about enjoying the day. It was almost like a summer day there were so many people walking around enjoying the weather. People were flying kites, walking their dogs and acting like it was the summer. I saw this cool kite someone was flying that looked like a pirate ship and the sky was so blue that it almost looked like the ocean. The way the wind was blowing on the reeds almost makes them look like waves as well.
Tags: Kite, Reeds, Sky, Sony H1
Apr
26
2008

I took this photo last weekend while testing my new Tamron 70-300 lens. I was taking a macro shot and I think it came out really well. As a surprise bonus I got a bee buzzing by that came out pretty clear in the photo. It is on the right hand side of the picture in case you did not see it.
Tags: Bee, Macro, Pentax K10d, Reeds, Tamron 70-300
Apr
06
2008
I recently read a very good article on several different black and white conversion processes on Matt Greer’s Photography Blog. I had taken this picture of some reeds by the ocean that had some very dramatic looking clouds that I thought would look great in black and white so I decided to test a few of the methods he mentioned on this photo and share the results on my blog.

First here is the original photo in color. Like I said I am pretty happy with this shot but It just seemed like this photo was asking to be converted to black and white. Now to see how the conversions turned out: (more…)
Tags: B&W photography, BW Conversions, Clouds, Ocean, Reeds