Tanks!

Sorry everyone, I stink as a blogger.

I'm a horrible human, truly despicable.

Tank you for still reading this!

So much for high ideals

Yea, as a blogger, I suck. I guess what I'll do is post on here occasionally, visit others occasionally.

Here is something disgusting! I was out at a local marsh trying to get pictures of cranes, and I found a rotting deer head on a fence. Yea.

After I got back and was looking at it, I thought it was a little morose, so I applied a filter in Photoshop and voilà, ART! I guess its kinda something like, but not really like at all a Georgia O'Keeffe painting. On acid. With a twist of lime.

I'm a weiner!

...err... winner. Either apply really.

I really do apologize for just leaving out of the blue. To this day, I still have no good, full explanation for doing so. My life was changing in a big way (job), and blogging seemed to be a chore. Plus, I really wasn't getting out to take many pictures because.... well ... I was busy taking pictures (for clients).

My life is getting a little easier at work, and I hope I'm digging myself out of a bit of a funk. So, I'm going to start bloging again (I'm sure someone has made the joke, but cant "Photoblog" be shortened to "Phloging"? Or does that sound a little masochistic?).

My new lowered phloging hurdles (because I'm all about the bare minimum). I will be posting once a week to week and a half. Perhaps I'll speed up at times. I just want to keep with this, and not get burnt out again.

Anyhoo, as I was saying, I didn't have much time for taking pictures I wanted. The following picture I took on the way home from a job in Door County Wisconsin. The ships are lakers, and they are parked for the season. If you click on the picture to get the bigger view, you can see the small bumps in the lower left corner on the horizon are trucks. They drive out on the ice in the bay to ice fish.

This picture took first in my local camera club for Photojournalism.

















Again, sorry about the whole leaving for a year and a half with no communication thing.

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

I might actually start blogging again soon. I'm having more time and energy lately.

Since I've been away I have gone from third shift photo lab rat to kinda running a studio/event photography place. Ironically enough I still dislike taking pictures of people.

Here is a random picture.























(PS, if you click on the picture for the far too large view, you can see a bald eagle (kinda) in the air.)

Fish in a barrel

Ok, sorry for not posting and getting around to all of your sites. I'm just not getting on the internet as much as I use to. I still think I will settle more down into this again as I get use to my knew hours.So, yea. I was out this weekend at High Cliff State Park. It was a good day, hiking a round a lot, taking some ok pictures. It was getting dark, so I was thinking my shooting was over. I climbed up a steep path to get up to where I left the jeep, and sat down against a rock towards the top.
So I was relaxing, watching the sunset and thought, "you know, this is the kind of thing normal people take pictures of".I usually don't take a lot of sunsets, because all I think of when I shoot them is "Yawn... seen it". I would prefer to shoot something people haven’t seen. But, I was just sitting there with a camera beside me so…
I was very impressed with the response of the digital. I cranked the contrast and saturation again trying to imitate my beloved Velvia, and I don’t think it turned out half bad.Sorry for posting sunsets, there are a million of them out there, but I kinda enjoyed these in the end.

What the...

Well, I was taking pictures of dogs this weekend as a fundraiser for our local theater (and animal shelter).

While I was going through some of the pictures tonight, this reject caught my eye. The little fart had shook himself while I was taking the picture, so I had ignored the shot. While I was going through pictures just now and saw him, I almost fell out of my chair laughing!

What happened was the flash froze his actions at one point, but a longer shutter speed blurred out the rest of him.

Well... I got a laugh out if it at least!

Trying to polish a turd

Sometime, I just try too hard to make a picture work. Here is a a work line into a picture that just doesn’t quite do it for me, and where I just went stupid trying to chase it down. I have revisited this image several times.First image try. I like the Trees, and the building, but the building doesn’t snap, and the part of the building that rises on the right side up past the spire bugs the hell out of me.
Second try, a month or so later. I don’t like the other tries in cropping in. Finally I think this is kinda funky. I finally decide however that I need less leaves, or less church. I like both however, and don’t want to sacrifice. I add a little more contrast. Then I give up.Third try, another months later. I finally cut the tree, add more contrast. I don't min it as much, but now I realize that I have probably cropped in too close to really be a good image. Plus, I long ago lost the trees on the side that I guess I liked most about the picture.
After I try that, I take out the color, maybe it will look good as a B&W. Eh. Getting the feeling I jumped the shark.Now I try Graphic pen. Looks like something out of Sin City, only... bad.I don't know why I even did this. Using the Stained Glass filter only brings me pain and agony. Loosing a grip on reality... must... back away... from Photoshop....