Double Trouble

The "HDR" app on the phone takes multiple exposures sometimes leaving ghost images in the shot... like this one of Tanner literally running off into the sunset.

As I said before.....

I take a lot of photos... and every once in a while I get a good one.
Tanner and I were at the park, the rain had just gone through and the air was clean and fresh. The heat and abated slightly but it was sill warm, just no longer oppressive.  This barn swallow was out hunting bugs  flying a foot off the deck and zig-zagging back and forth between us and the trees. Tanner sat and waited patiently as I took a couple shots trying to catch this speed demon in mid-flight.

Shot with my cell phone. Sharpened up slightly. I love this shot. Not because it is perfect, its not. Not because its composed well, it really is not that either. I love it because I caught it in motion: me moving with the bird trying to get him in the frame. Awesome.
Click to enlarge.

Sometimes I get a good shot...

I am always taking photos and for every one I like there are 5 that are not so good. Like a lot of things its a numbers game.

Saying all that... I like this one.
Today at the park.
Nice.
Simple.
Pleasant.
Just like the day
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Sound Barrier - Awesome Photo

GULF OF ALASKA (June 22, 2009) An Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis

Photo cred to:

Sonar Technician (Surface) 1st Class Ronald Dejarnett

Photography 101

Sure I take a lot of photos. Hell I almost always have a camera in my hand thanks to my phone. No mater how many photos you take it is always good to remember the basic techniques: light, subject, composition.... and for god sakes try to stand still for a second. If not you might get results like this.

Light Tricks

The other day I was in the yard when the sun was shining in just the right angle that the light was playing tricks on the edge of the chimney making It look like a well, like a certain pyramid in Mexico. Granted it was not the summer equinox but hey , we got special light tricks too and we don’t even charge the tourists.

… “ the El Castillo pyramid, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, played the role, among other things, of marking the spring equinox in a public and dramatic fashion. To the left is a picture of El Castillo at the time of the spring equinox. The shadows trace out an immense snake slithering down the side of the pyramid (this happens only on this special day). Such dramatic demonstrations had more to do with impressing the public with the power of the priests than low-budget astronomy, but they did require accurate observations and major efforts to understand them”…

I am pretty sure that when they built my house astronomy was not the first thing they were thinking about but the effect seems about the same to me. * Click on the photo for the close up*

Photo Illusions

Apparently in some circles , photo-shopping photos (also known as Fauxtography) is becoming an art from unto itself. I have mentioned this before but…

This picture from Gizmodo I could not help but pass along