OOF (Out of Focus Fridays) - "Mood Ring"

March 2012, Chicago, IL (Polaroid Land 250 camera, Fuji FP-100C film)

This is the window storefront portion of a local greenhouse. Image was taken on a very cold night, through the fogged window glass. I like this shot, even though I don't think it is actually a very "pleasing" image and I'm actually not sure it really "works." The colors, while technically warm tones, come across to me as a bit sickly and cold. And the forms of the plants in the window are completely unidentifiable as such. A fouled aquarium? Alien viscera? A generally poor photographic execution of a bad idea? Your call.

OOFF (Out Of Focus Fridays) - "Night Moves"

November 2010, San Francisco, California (Canon Rebel XTi, 18-200mm, 1600 ISO)

Silent Night

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Best Wishes to all.
May you be well, safe, warm and sound. And may you and yours always find your ways home.

"Sentinel" (Canon 40D, EF 70-200mm f/4L @ 800 ISO, Wisconsin, November 2010)

The Zipper

The Zipper: Memorial Day Neighborhood Carnival (Canon 40d, 17-40mm f4.0, handheld)

This was my favorite Carnival ride when I was a kid.  It's just such a gloriously evil, nausea-inducing blast.

Check It Out . . .

So I have been an on-again off-again participant on this photography contest site - DPChallenge.com (Digital Photography Challenge).  I kind of went off on photography for some time, but have been working myself back into it.  So, I submitted an entry for a recent challenge with the them of Night Shot and . . . I got 5th place!!

Clouds At The Gate


You don't get anything but bragging rights, but I'm pretty jazzed about it.

Night Work

Trying to get the hang of night photography with the digital SLR.  I had a pretty good handle on it with film, but have not been able to get quite the same cool color mixtures that the old tungsten slide film would provide.  Will keep working on it, though.  I like the idea of continuing to work with film, but in reality the film boxes gather dust because digital is just so much easier and provides such faster feedback.