After Dark Photo
B+W Heavy Red Filter Shaver Lake Winter
I've been tagged....for the first time...and had no idea what that meant or what I was supposed to do. But thanks to Clay Wells he thought I was worthy enough to play this freaking Flickr game of tag. SO if you are one of the unlucky 16 contacts of mine I hit....don't blame me.....blame Clay....he's a pest. And I ask this: who the hell thought listing 16 things about yourself was a fab idea? And I did say fab.....I say fab because this little listing game feels like being Paris Hilton's new BFF.....contrived and silly..so i say FAB!
So after all the shoveling of snow, and blowing of driveways, and scraping of ice, I set back for a second and took in the gorgeous view off the front deck. I struggled with this shot....I wasn't sure if I should go for a long drawn out exposure to emphasis the dramatic skies...but once I clicked the shutter a few times, I figured mother nature did a darn fine job on her own and no ND grad filters were needed to help her this time.
I did however utilize a circular polarizer on this one and then converted to Black and White with a heavy red filter emphasis...something about the IR look and effect really appeals to me
Canon 40d
Sigma 10-20mm @ 20mm
ISO 100
f/16 @ 1 second
So I guess I have to now list 16 things about me.....grrrr Clay...grrrrr
1) I'm taller than 6'2" but shorter than 6'4"
2) I hate brussel sprouts, okra, egg plant, and any othe vegatable that are used to torture kids
3) I once faked being drunk (in my 20's) so i wouldn't have to spend anymore time of a painfully boring evening with a girl I was set up with on a blind date. She later asked her friend (who had set us up) if i was allergic to alcohol because I had reacted so violenly to one Coor's Light.....I thought she wouldn't have noticed I had only bought one beer....obviosuly her boring stories included relatively awesome observation skills.
4) I snore......relentlessly.....get some ear plugs cause I'm never having that silly surgery that every wife tries to get her husband to have....I mean really...surgery? Did Alexander the Great, or Hannibal, or Braveheart have surgery to lessen their manly snore horn...for crying out loud
5) I had a bunk mate in college that was from Ireland.....he played a game at parties (after a few pints) called "Hide the dook." i won't give you the details since the name simply says it all...i will say this though....there were many places we were never invited back to when they "found the dook."
6) I once got busy in a Burger King Bathroom......well not really but I did love me some of the Humpty dance back in the day....lyrical genius! And in a roundabout way this reveals I liked silly hip hop songs with guys with pickle noses.
7) I tend to exaggerate.....but only if it gets a really big laugh
8) I tend to like getting a laugh...which causes me to exaggerate
9) I played a professional sport after college.....
10) Both of my grandfathers were veterans of WWII...surprisingly, one of them was stationed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, and the other was a Seabee....
11) I am a huge Hockey fan.....go Sharks Go!
12) Quite possibly the funniest and my most favorite movie ever is 3 Amigos.....I mean, who could deny that its probably the last funny movie Chevy Chase made before his failure as a talk show host? And El Huapo....he's so dreammmmmyyyyy
13) I love to read.....when i was in 4th grade I guess I was reading a little better and faster than the other kids in my class (we won't talk about how far behind them I was in math). Anyways. my teacher met with my parents and told them they needed to start challenging me with more adult and abstract reading material. My father asked her "Like What?" She suggested Stephen King and Playboy......to my dismay, I never got the playboy reading materials...but my twisted parents, in their weird attempt at trying to "challenge" me were succesful in having me read "the Shining" and never wanting to sleep or ride an elevator again....as if looking at some breasts and reading about Stephen Spielberg interviews in Playboy would have been so detrimental....
14) I like and will continue to use Flickr as long as the sense of community, reciprocation, and feedback continue to be a staple diet of my daily experience here....I will however begin to weed out contacts whom I comment on photos regularly for (whether it be for praise, questions about their process, or just to comment about what did or did not work in their shot) but never seem to visit or comment on my or other people's streams. This is not a whine, merely a point ot be made...the community is only as good as the two way street it was desgined to be.....those that are takers only don't interest me...no matter how great they might be.....we are all in this together and reciprocation, no matter how slight, is an important part of the feedback we receive here.....
15) I love TollHouse Chocolate Chip cookies hot, gooey, straight out of the oven
16) I am not allergic or reactive to Poison Oak
Phew......thanks for hangin in there
B+W Heavy Red Filter Shaver Lake Winter
I've been tagged....for the first time...and had no idea what that meant or what I was supposed to do. But thanks to Clay Wells he thought I was worthy enough to play this freaking Flickr game of tag. SO if you are one of the unlucky 16 contacts of mine I hit....don't blame me.....blame Clay....he's a pest. And I ask this: who the hell thought listing 16 things about yourself was a fab idea? And I did say fab.....I say fab because this little listing game feels like being Paris Hilton's new BFF.....contrived and silly..so i say FAB!
So after all the shoveling of snow, and blowing of driveways, and scraping of ice, I set back for a second and took in the gorgeous view off the front deck. I struggled with this shot....I wasn't sure if I should go for a long drawn out exposure to emphasis the dramatic skies...but once I clicked the shutter a few times, I figured mother nature did a darn fine job on her own and no ND grad filters were needed to help her this time.
I did however utilize a circular polarizer on this one and then converted to Black and White with a heavy red filter emphasis...something about the IR look and effect really appeals to me
Canon 40d
Sigma 10-20mm @ 20mm
ISO 100
f/16 @ 1 second
So I guess I have to now list 16 things about me.....grrrr Clay...grrrrr
1) I'm taller than 6'2" but shorter than 6'4"
2) I hate brussel sprouts, okra, egg plant, and any othe vegatable that are used to torture kids
3) I once faked being drunk (in my 20's) so i wouldn't have to spend anymore time of a painfully boring evening with a girl I was set up with on a blind date. She later asked her friend (who had set us up) if i was allergic to alcohol because I had reacted so violenly to one Coor's Light.....I thought she wouldn't have noticed I had only bought one beer....obviosuly her boring stories included relatively awesome observation skills.
4) I snore......relentlessly.....get some ear plugs cause I'm never having that silly surgery that every wife tries to get her husband to have....I mean really...surgery? Did Alexander the Great, or Hannibal, or Braveheart have surgery to lessen their manly snore horn...for crying out loud
5) I had a bunk mate in college that was from Ireland.....he played a game at parties (after a few pints) called "Hide the dook." i won't give you the details since the name simply says it all...i will say this though....there were many places we were never invited back to when they "found the dook."
6) I once got busy in a Burger King Bathroom......well not really but I did love me some of the Humpty dance back in the day....lyrical genius! And in a roundabout way this reveals I liked silly hip hop songs with guys with pickle noses.
7) I tend to exaggerate.....but only if it gets a really big laugh
8) I tend to like getting a laugh...which causes me to exaggerate
9) I played a professional sport after college.....
10) Both of my grandfathers were veterans of WWII...surprisingly, one of them was stationed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, and the other was a Seabee....
11) I am a huge Hockey fan.....go Sharks Go!
12) Quite possibly the funniest and my most favorite movie ever is 3 Amigos.....I mean, who could deny that its probably the last funny movie Chevy Chase made before his failure as a talk show host? And El Huapo....he's so dreammmmmyyyyy
13) I love to read.....when i was in 4th grade I guess I was reading a little better and faster than the other kids in my class (we won't talk about how far behind them I was in math). Anyways. my teacher met with my parents and told them they needed to start challenging me with more adult and abstract reading material. My father asked her "Like What?" She suggested Stephen King and Playboy......to my dismay, I never got the playboy reading materials...but my twisted parents, in their weird attempt at trying to "challenge" me were succesful in having me read "the Shining" and never wanting to sleep or ride an elevator again....as if looking at some breasts and reading about Stephen Spielberg interviews in Playboy would have been so detrimental....
14) I like and will continue to use Flickr as long as the sense of community, reciprocation, and feedback continue to be a staple diet of my daily experience here....I will however begin to weed out contacts whom I comment on photos regularly for (whether it be for praise, questions about their process, or just to comment about what did or did not work in their shot) but never seem to visit or comment on my or other people's streams. This is not a whine, merely a point ot be made...the community is only as good as the two way street it was desgined to be.....those that are takers only don't interest me...no matter how great they might be.....we are all in this together and reciprocation, no matter how slight, is an important part of the feedback we receive here.....
15) I love TollHouse Chocolate Chip cookies hot, gooey, straight out of the oven
16) I am not allergic or reactive to Poison Oak
Phew......thanks for hangin in there