New Phase

I'm going to try something new with my camera. I just ordered a couple of lens filters: a Hoya HMC (multicoated) Circular Polarizer, and a Graduated ND filter. I'm going to see if I can improve my landscape and seascape shots.

Wish me luck.

MSU-IIT Debating Teams Wins it All!

Texters' Choice!

Best Debater!

And the debate goes to... MSU-IIT!!!

L a n d s l i d e ! ! !

My first sunrise!

NEWS!

I love the comments my sunrise album has been getting on my recent post on the group Digital Photography World. Check out the album here

Sun-chasing

I went sun-chasing with my wife and 2 little kids yesterday after I picked them up from school. We had talked about choosing between two possible places where we could catch a sunset (and maybe shoot it). In the end, we decided to go with the more scenic, albeit farther, choice.

We drove for about 30 minutes - we had timed it just right - we would get there 15 minuted before the sunset, in time to catch some great colors and watercolor sky like we'd witnessed several times before while driving past the site. 

UNFORTUNATELY, when we got there, the vegetation had grown very high, and it was difficult to get a nice frame of the setting sun. It made me realize that the world, indeed, looks different when you're seeing it through a viewfinder.

Today we're going to go after the elusive sunset again. This time, in our other choice location. Wish us luck.

Once again, I try to come back

I got my new DSLR last week, a Sony Alpha A200! I'm pretty excited about it. So excited, that I've been taking around 100-200 photos per day. I guess it's good practice, though; the world's top photographers take around 10,000 shots a week! 

Out of the 150 or so pictures I take each day, around half make it to import, and a lot less make it to the "picks" folder. That leaves me with around 5-10 chosen picks a day that I post here as an album. Of those that i've chosen, I can only hope that even one of them catches your attention, or the attention of some other passerby, who just happened to glance at the right time at the right place for his/her attention to be caught.

That is inspiration enough to continue squeezing the shutter the next day.