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Photo of the Week #7: Snow

Ryan — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:32:22 +0000

This has been a very warm winter, a nice contrast from this time last year, but we have managed to get a wee bit of snow. When I came home for lunch we went outside and played a bit and I managed to take a few photos. Last year when it snowed it was roughly 30 degrees colder, and the snow was 3 feet deep, so Emma wasn’t enjoying it. However this year she found it to be quite a good time!

Photo of the Week #6: Old Stone Wall

Ryan — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:00:53 +0000

I’ve been busy and sick and we’ve had bad weather so it’s not surprising I’ve missed a week! Nevertheless here is a photo I took of an old deteriorating stone wall the other day while out and about with Emma.

I decided to take her to the waterfall along Spring River at Kellogg Lake park in Carthage. I drive past it all the time but have never stopped to investigate. Turns out it’s a kind of a neat area! This, as with many other things in Carthage is a reminder of how things used to be done. It’s pretty rare to see a wall such as this made of rectangular cut stones. These days at best you may see retaining wall blocks, but most commonplace is just a poured slab of concrete.

Not one of those “wow” photos, but I still think it’s interesting.

Photo of the Week #4: Barn at Sunset

Ryan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:01:26 +0000

Here is the first, though probably not the last photo I’ll post of my barn. This, as many of my photos are the result of having my camera with me at just the right time, rather than picking a subject and waiting for the perfect scene to occur.

I added a gradient neutral density effect in Lightroom because I still have yet to but an actual ND grad filter.

24mm, ISO 500, 1/40sec @ f/5.6

Photo of the Week #3 – Firery Sunrise

Ryan — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:08:29 +0000

This week I had a nice problem to deal with – choosing between several photos to post of my photo of the week. The other morning I managed to shoot 3 completely different, but interesting photos and had a hard time selecting which one I liked the best. I ended up with this one because I like the vibrant color and the subtle tree branches that almost get lost in the bright sunrise through the fog. The first couple shots I took more to the right of the sun, but in this shot I actually included the sun in the frame, which I like.

Although the photo strikes me as fairly warm, it was a quite chilly morning.

105mm focal length, ISO 400, 1/250sec @ f/10

Photo of the Week #2: Eily’s Reflection

Ryan — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:16:16 +0000

Well it’s only the second week of this project and I’ve already broken my self imposed rule of posted primarily artsy or nature photos rather than cute photos of my kids as the photo of the week. But I found this shot both cute and interesting and it’s my project so I can post whatever I feel like.

The reason I find this interesting is because in Eily’s eye you can see the reflection of my silhouette taking her photo and the flash illuminating the doors and part of the ceiling. For some reason I’ve always found it interesting to look at the reflections in people’s eyes or sunglasses to see the subject’s perspective at the time the photo was taken.

Aside from that it’s just a cute photo…

Are we there yet?

Ryan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:24:59 +0000

I came across this video that Colby shot on our vacation and decided that it was worth sharing. Here is what was happening… We had just boarded a plane headed for Moscow. All of this steam or whatever was coming from the vents, which was kind of weird. Then this odd rendition of music I normally associate with old western style movies started playing over the intercom. Top that off with the drunk russian guys getting into a fight and the guy across the aisle chugging from a bottle of vodka. It was a very interesting situation to say the least. I wasn’t sure if anyone, including the pilots was sober.

When we landed in Moscow after what felt like the longest flight of my life, all of the passengers simultaneously erupted in thunderous applause – which I found all too appropriate. The only thing about the flight that didn’t totally suck was that I got to see a few sights out the window that most Americans will never see… including a sunrise over the Caspian Sea and the country of Iran.

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Ryan — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:36:19 +0000