Well baseball season has finally begun. This was the first game for the Nighthawks 10 and under team sponsored by Dillon Brothers Harley. They played a very good game leading a double A team that had already won 4 games this year the whole game until the last inning. They were at a slight disadvantage in that this is the first year that these boys have been allowed to steal bases, so they were caught off guard a little in the last inning to lose by only one run. Still they have a lot to hang their hats on seeing as how it was their 1st game of the year and they played well.

Weekends with Wildlife

On the weekends I like to get out early in the mornings to try and capture some wildlife shots. I live pretty close to a cluster of small lakes and there is usually a pretty good varity of wildlife running around. Here are a few shots from Friday morning. When I took the photo of the Egret it was actually pretty light outside, but I used the spot meter on my camera to meter off the white feathers to render most of the background dark.

The Pelican and Cormorants I took from one of my favorite spots elevated above the lake. The Pelicans migrate through here every year, but this year there wasn't near as many as last year.

Well Baseball starts tomorrow so you will start seeing lots of sports images here soon.

Strobist Assignment

Well I finished my strobist assignment, and it was a lot of fun. I wish I would of had a better subject than myself, but that was the assignment. We were to take a self portrait using a small flash off camera bouncing the light off a white wall. Well I don't have any white walls in my house, so I used a white backdrop.

The first shot shows my set up then the next one is the final shot. Like I said a better subject would have been nice, but that's the way it goes. It is a lot of work being the photographer and the model at the same time. My garage wasn't the best background either, but there was more room to work with there.

Hopefully we will continue to do more of these assignments, they are a great way to learn new things.

Back from Oklahoma

Well I had a great time at the Blue Moon Meetup in Oklahoma. And took lots of photos. If I can figure out how to post some I will.

This is Lindsey and Kelsey, they were fantastic. They put up with 80 photographers for 4 days telling them to move here do this turn this way and always had a smile ready when they needed it. I met a lot of new friends and fellow photographers and got reaquainted with several that I met at last years meetup. I'm already excited about next year.

My next project coming up is some Strobist assignments, I'm not sure what they will be yet, but as soon as I do I will post more on that. I'm going to try and post more often too.