Crystal’s baby

Crystal came to work with her new baby (Mason) and I grabbed a few pictures:

 

 

 

 

Some Wedding Stuff…

Was 2nd shooter at a wedding in Salem recently.   Here’s some stuff from that:

Amin, the groom

Amin, shot with the 90mm tilt/shift

Nephew of the groom

Amin shows off his blue vest.

 

Groom's neice

 

The Harp Player

 

Procession

 

Bride and Groom after Ceremony

 

Pics

Have just been playing around with some post-processing techniques that I like:

 

Merry Christmas

New lens

I’ve always wanted the Canon 90mm tilt-shift lens.  Figured it’d be good for selective focus portraits and other stuff, so I traded an old 20D and wide-angle zoom and a few bucks and picked one up today.  Like it so far:

 

Pic o the Day

This coyote’s been hanging around the neighborhood – and specifically, the back yard – kind of frequently in the past couple of days.  He (she) wouldn’t stay still when I had a clear line of sight, so I had to shoot while it was on the run.  Problem there is that it was a cloudy dawn and there wasn’t a whole lot of light.  Compound that by the fact that I’m shooting with a 2X converter on a 70-200mm f/2.8 zoom (effectively shooting a 400mm f/5.6 lens at f/9 at an ISO of 800), and you get the surprising exposure time of 1/4 second.  Initially, I was disappointed, knowing that it was going to be a blurry shot, but once I actually took a look at it, I thought it was pretty cool.

Oh, yeah –

And this guy has been having dinner (OK, being nocturnal, maybe he’s having breakfast) out in front of the house lately:

Catch up

OK – it’s been a while since the last time.  Sorry.  Hot hot hot out – just like I like it.  The vegetable garden’s doing grrrreat! since we’ve had a bunch of sun and we haven’t had a repeat of the past two years wherein all of June and some of July were rain-soaked.

Here are some pics:

For the 4th of July, Paula and I traveled up to a friend’s house in New Hampshire for some free food:

Our Host - "Cracker"

The Always Lovely Paula at the Barn Door

Father and Son

Tractor and Barn

Barn, July 4

Fashion tests:

This was a test done in June with Jenna of Maggie, Inc.  Wanted to be happy and commercial looking:

Jenna and the Convention Center

Another:

Jenna on the Overpass

And:

Jenna in the Abandoned Studio

Also – did a test with Evelyn at Maggie.   Needed to do a head shot and body shot.  We shot mostly up on the roof around sunset between thunderstorms:

Evelyn

Evelyn Looks Back

Evelyn at the Roof Door

Evelyn at the Window

Evelyn and Boston

Evelyn at the Wall

Pics o the Day

The mallard couple that hangs out in the stream has lunch in the rain:

Yellow feather found in the yard:

Pic o the Day

A little more than a year ago – Laura Lee in the scarf: