Just wanted to share a few more pics, all from last week. Again, no names or places, just pics. I do, however, want to give a shout out to a good friend of mine. He let me borrow a couple of lenses for this project, and it helped out a great deal. Please, when you have a few minutes, check out his site. He is VERY good, and he will shoot just about anything you might need him too. You can see his work, as well as contact him via his website.

On to the pics:

I just wanted to share a few of the pictures from last week. I took these out at the “Pole Farm”, and it was a lot of fun. We had to do this around 1pm, and the Texas sun was absolutely horrible. It is somewhat of a miracle that these came out at all with the abusive lighting, but in the end, I am actually pretty happy with them. They stay true to my style, being very contrasty and saturated, so the outcome is acceptable, in my opinion. Anyway, on to the pics…

Well, it’s been over a month since my last post, so I think it’s about time. I know, I know, FAIL. I’ll try a little harder in the future to bring posts more often… Anyway, here we go. I am working on a project, which I can’t really go into detail about right now, but it involves me taking pictures of people. No names, no places, just pics (for this post). I also can’t share a number of the shots because they contain sensitive information, but the ones I can share are below. I like these a lot, especially considering the cramped space and HORRIBLE lighting that I had to work with!

These were all taken with my 30D and a Canon 50/1.8. A couple are using an external flash bounced off the ceiling, and the others are natural/available light…   (100 points if you can tell me which ones are which lighting)

And here is my hilarious friend Jessica. She’s ‘ganagsta’…   hahaha

My wife and I both grew up in Dallas, then moved to Austin around 10 years ago. We are in agreement that the clouds we see around Austin, and near our house in Elgin, are different from those in Dallas. We have no explanation as to why, and we may be way off base, but they really do seem ‘different’. That is part of the reason why you see so many shots from me that include clouds. I am a big fan of them, especially here, and in photos…

I took these from my back porch. The clouds looked cool that night, and almost ominous, so it seemed like a good opportunity for a few shots. These were taken with the Canon 40D + 18-55 + wide angle adapter…

I just wanted to share these two shots from last night. I took these near Elgin, kind of in the middle of nowhere. Both were taken with the Canon 40D + 18-55 w/ wide angle lens adapter… I hope you enjoy them…

Just a sunrise from the other morning. It was nice a foggy, and I loved the way it looked in the distance, so I took advantage… Here ya go…

Early this month, my daughter turned 3 years old, and I can’t believe how fast the time went by! She is SO big, and I am so proud of her (and my son of course!). I just thought I’d share a few pictures from her birthday. I took a lot more, but these are my favorites…

Canon 40D + Canon 28/1.8

So, this should be fun…

My son (2nd grade) recently did a science fair project, and it was basically to see if more mold would grow on untouched food, or food surrounded by water. This seems harmless enough, until you have to open the containers to take pictures for him! The smell that came from this project almost made me lose it. Really. My mind thinks it can still smell it today, and this was done last week.

The project used three foods; Cheese, Refried Beans, and Lima Beans. Two containers of each, one ‘dry’, and one submerged in water. Below are the pics I took for him (the closer ones, zoomed out they are almost boring). I think you can figure out which food is which, and I will show the dry before wet…

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So… I came home the other day to find my wife giving her dog a summer shave. A “Pony Cut” to be specific (I’m learning!). I couldn’t help but take a few pics. Ruby (the dog) seems to actually enjoy being shaved! It’s the strangest thing. I watched in amazement as the dog started to fall asleep while she was doing this to eat. Really, I don’t even know what to say about that. lol

Pics:

I took this a while back (almost exactly a month ago), and thought I might as well share it here. This is my desk at work. I know, messy. I am in IT, and this is all stuff I use on a regular basis, including the scale Shelby GT500KR! I have collected lots of things doing this job (and the one before it), and they are all scattered around… The MacBook is my personal laptop, which I am posting this from, and use for all my photography needs. The desktop with the two monitors is my main work box, and gets LOTS of use. And the other laptop is a Lenovo, which is my work laptop. I use it at the office a bit, but mainly when I am on call. The ‘phones’ on the desk are as follows, left to right; TMobile My G2 (personal), Verizon BlackBerry 8530 (work), and an 8gb iPod Touch (fun). Also, you will notice the pics of my kids hanging on the wall/cube. Yes, I printed them on regular printer paper, but it’s ok, they came out well lol… Anyway, here it is. My home away from home…