I went with my friends to the shooting range today. They brought all their weapons with them and were ready to shoot some stuff up. I once again got to shoot most if not all of the guns and like last time, got to document all of this all the while trying to catch the elusive muzzle flash. It is much harder then one might think even with a fast camera, timing is EVERYTHING! After about 400 photos and 10 different guns, i hit PAY DIRT!! It was just perfect! Look at the flash!! A ball of FIRE out of his 1954 German made pistol shooting 7.62x25 cartridges. I got many photos with smoke and i saw many flashes but this is the ONLY fireball that was caught!! The range was way out in Goochland County north of I64 West. I have to thank my friends for all their time and letting me shoot with them, expecting nothing in return but my time and fun. They will be missed dearly when i move in another month...
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Fire Ball!!! BOOM!!!
The Sun Is Drawing...You Bumm Looker!
I was coming home from the shooting range this evening and i was driving down Old Hundred Road waiting to make the tun onto Watermill Parkway when i saw the sunset. I was amazed and i knew that i had to find somewhere to take a few photos. I sat a field that had a mound of dirt in it and i placed my Tacoma into 4x4 mode and i went to the top of the hill. I grabbed the camera and got onto my step bars and started shooting away! This photo as well as DSC04854, DSC04853, and DSC04850 were taken during this secession. I did not know at the time, but i was able to capture more of "The Sun ID Drawing" phenomena. I think that it really comes out well in the B/W photographs...
Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 30 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Monday, June 16, 2008
Butterfly Bush...
I have been waiting for this plant to bloom for all spring. My grandmother called it a Butterfly Bush. I am not exactly sure what it is called. I took this picture today during the early afternoon and it was really hot! I used Apature Priority to get the bloom in sharp focus and everything else blurry. It looks really cool on the rocks and stuff that is under it. I like how it turned out! I think that this technique is called Depth Of Field using the Apature.
Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Sky&Lightning
I saw this photo in the Black and White Photography (POST 1, COMMENT 3) and i had to post this to my blog.
Many thanks to: Uploaded by pascnalli on 11 Aug 07, 12.45PM EDT.
Sun Rays...
We went to the mall today and as we were driving home i made a comment on how the sun was coming through the clouds and how that would make a nice photo. When i got home, it was still occurring so i get my camera and took the shot in B/W where i hoped that it would show up better than in color and it did! I love the contrast that is in this picture.
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Grass Seed Forest?
I took this today in the front yard of my house. Some of the grass is going to seed and i laid in the yard to get this shot. I brought the grass into sharp focus by adjusting the apature and f/stop. I took it in HD Aspect Ratio to get more of the scene and in B/W for the color contrast.
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Camera Accessories...
For Father's Day, my Daughter got me the Case Logic 6'' Flexible Tripod that i wanted! It is just like the Gorilla Pod and it works the same for much less. I am very happy and it is really neat!All have a good rest of the day...
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Tree Reflection
This was taken after a rain storm.I am going to include this in my "The Rain Project" that i do from time to time. I thought that it was a good reflection of the pine tree in the water. I took this with my Sony H1 5.1Megapixel Cybershot DSC.
Exposure: 0.125 sec (1/8)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 64
Night Lights...
I took this at the KOA in North Carolina. I love the Lens Flair that is i coming off the lights. I took this with my Sony H1 5.1Megapixel Cybershot DSC.
Exposure: 8 sec (8)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 21.8 mm
ISO Speed: 64
Korean Memorial at Night
I love the Korean War Memorial! It is my favorite on at night. I wish that i will have the time to go and take it with a tripod and get a good night photo. I don't know if that is going to happen. You can tell the pain on their face as they walk in the muck and mud. They just hulk around doing a job...
Exposure: 0.4 sec (2/5)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400
A Day at the Museum...
I took this when we went to the National Museum of Natural History in DC several weeks ago. I love the architecture and the domes in the evening light. It looks like the Grand Central Station that is located in DC as well. The way the shapes join and the colors are very earthly in shade.
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Concrete Boa constrictor
I saw this photo in a group that i belong to on Flickr and i wanted to share it with you.
Friday, June 13, 2008
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
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Caterpillar Swallowtail
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Evening sun and clouds.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Inside Out...
I was just messing around with the camera yesterday trying to kill the battery. I took this in my kitchen. It is strange how the window and light shows up but not the wall of much of the table.
Stained - "Outside" But i´m on the outside
I´m looking in
And I can see through you
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Monday, June 09, 2008
Picture 079
Close to the Airport in Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas Island Summer 2006 Vacation
Exposure: 2 sec (2)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 19.8 mm
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Close to the Airport in Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas Island Summer 2006 Vacation
Exposure: 2 sec (2)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 16.5 mm
ISO Speed: 64
Picture 077
Close to the Airport in Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas Island summer 2006 vacation
Exposure: 2 sec (2)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 16.5 mm
ISO Speed: 64
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St Thomas USVI Summer 2006
I took this on vacation in St Thomas summer 2006 with my Cybershot 5.1Megapixel. This was my main camera before i bought the a200.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 64
Knights Templar Chapel...Alexandria Virginia
These are the stained glass windows that are located on the 4th floor of the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria Virginia. The room according to the website is sponsored and maintained by the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States.
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
Sunday Morning Bike Ride...
Well, i need to get ready for sleep and work tomorrow...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
Sunday Morning Bike Ride
We are going to go and ride Lake View 1,2,3 tomorrow morning. If we rode from Quala Road lot, it will be 18 miles. I think that we are going to park in the main park and cut out about 3 miles of the ride. I will give some updates tomorrow after the ride.
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Subjectivity is truth, subjectivity is reality.
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Friday, June 06, 2008
Paul Van Dyk - The Other Side
I am so hung up on this track. I love the Dip Dish Remix clocking in at over 9 minutes. It reminds me of The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. PVD had a good style on this track with the male vocals.I am just sorry that i was not able to purchase all the mixes of this track.
Seal - Don't Cry [OFFICIAL video]
This was almost the highlight of the concert that i saw at the Woodlands in Houston summer 1994. He did an extreamly long rendition of this song. I wish that he would release that version!
Seal - Future Love Paradise [OFFICIAL video]
Another song that i loved of his. I bought this album when i was in college at SFA(Nacogdoches Texas)summer of 1991.
Seal - Crazy [OFFICIAL video]
I saw him at the Woodlands in Houston Texas. I was totally blown away by him. He had Phil Hartnoll from Orbital as his keyboard player and it was an amazing show. I would really love to see him in concert again. Summer 1994
Information Society - What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)
This was the first concert that i ever went to in a club. Rhinestones in Beaumont Texas. I was 16 and i was wearing a Bomber Jacket that i purchased at a store at Parkdale Mall called Chess King...
bg the prince of rap - this beat is hot
I always loved this track because of the KLF rift that is mixed into the song. The production was superb as was many tracks of this era.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
B&W Bonsi Plant
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Pool 1
While at the KOA, the girls went to the pool. It was freaking COLD!! I did not swim but they did. I was told that the pool was opened on the 22nd of May. It was too cold for me. The water was really clear and I thought that the photo was really neat with my shadow in the water. Notice the ripples in the water. This was taken on Saturday morning after it cleared off from the rain that we had the night before. It was about 76 degrees for the high temperature on that day. I took this in 16:9 Aspect Ratio.
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 22 mm
ISO Speed: 100
1820 - 1889
With this grave stone being well over 120+ years, you can tell by the deterioration of the stone from being in the weather for so long. I did not know any of the people buried in the cemetery or what they died from, just that they ended up in this particular site.
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 24 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
In the Tunnel
I saw this in the Black and White Photography (POST 1, COMMENT 3) (Pool) on FlickR. I belong to this group. I wanted to share it with all of you.
Looking away...
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Monday, June 02, 2008
The Watcher...
The kitty is watching you...
This was a very hard photo to take. The cat was sitting on the bench with the sun and shadows on her from the big window. I took the photo in RAW format and then used Image Data Lightbox Sr to convert it to a Jpg. I did a bunch of RAW photos this evening. I am impressed how the cam dealt with the bright and dark contrast of the setting.
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Another Kitty Photo...
I used the flash for this photo. She does not like it and omst of the time looks away when it does its metering function. She did not for this shot.
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Black and White Cloud...
I took this while driving back to my house after shooting all of the tomb stones at the Mount Hermon Cemetary off of Genito Road near Swift Creek Reservoir.
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Yellow Day Lilly...
I have many of these blooming at the moment. Well over 100+ blooms ready to open!
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Looking into The Dead Zone...
I do not know how many graves that are located here but it is many of them. This is located about 3-4 miles from my house. I wanted to get some of the fence looking over to the graves. I used 16:9 aspect ratio to capture some of the vastness of this cemetery. I was not able to get them all in the photograph. The fence makes it look like it is forbidden to enter the area if you are a living person.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Mountain Biking Saturday Morning
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Mack: When in Doubt, Blame the Soldiers
Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me publish this story.
When in Doubt, Blame the Soldiers
"War hath no fury like a non-combatant"
-- Charles Edward Montague
On the night of 6 June 1944 my father was on a ship in the English Channel with his armored car and crew and a few thousand of their closest friends, waiting for their turn to land in Normandy on the second day of the invasion. He said "it looked like all Europe was on fire." He landed on 7 June, and was told by the beachmaster to "drive inland as far as you can go; drive like *&##; nothing is secure."
"As far as you can go" turned out to be Zwickau some ten months later, with leisurely stops at Bastogne and Dachau.
Imagine a soldier in World War II landing on a beach in Normandy or anywhere else and being sent home for saying something rude about Hitler or the Emperor of Japan: "Sergeant Hall, stop that; mass-murderers have their feelings too, you know. We have to understand Hitler's special needs. After all, he had a rough childhood. Didn't you pay attention during the group therapy sessions that replaced lifeboat drill? We're pulling you out of the invasion and sending you home for sensitivity training."
Perhaps a journalist from, oh, Princess magazine heard about that exchange, and published it. In a few days Hitler could have read the sad story in the Washington Zeitgeist or the San Francisco Morning Screed and wept into his morning injection of weird drugs before filing a complaint with the United Nations.
Recently an American soldier was sent home from Iraq because he was accused of using a copy of the Koran for target practice. This was said to be offensive to the sort of people who strap bombs to their own children.
More recently a Marine was removed from checkpoint duty for handing out coins which bore the quotation from Saint John 3:16 on them instead of quotations from the Koran about how lovely it is to kill Jews.
Okay, okay, a soldier surely has better things to do than pot at a book, and a Marine at a checkpoint should be watching carefully for the little girl whose father packed her school bomb that morning so she can kill and die for his god.
Somewhere nearby there is a cranky old sergeant whose job is to growl "Private Ponsonby, if you want to discharge that firearm you find an Al Queda," or "Corporal Snortborger, you ain't no missionary." And that should be the end of it. The United Nations, whose craven peacekeeping forces are a terror only to women and children, doesn't get a say. Neither should the sort of people whose experience of war is limited to John Wayne movies and pose-for-the-camera protest marches.
A soldier who gives someone a token or religious medal with a few words about divine love on it may be a little off-task (or maybe not), but he's the one who was sent in to clean up the mess the politicians made, and he appears to have a better idea than most politicians about how to do it.
Could we at least pause for a moment to say something at least slightly disapproving of an ideology that tortures and murders the few prisoners it manages to take? Dare we suggest that strapping bombs to one's own child is not good parenting? Is it beastly to infer that cutting the throat of a diminutive stewardess is not nice? Is one boorish to notice that the previous Iraqi regime actually built a concentration camp for the children whose parents it had imprisoned or murdered?
Could we at least pause for a moment to say something at least slightly approving of the American soldiers we have sent into combat and, worse, "peace-keeping?"
Giving a Christian blessing to a civilian is not a soldier's duty, but neither is it a war crime.
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Chairman: "We deplore your spirit of disharmony."
No.6: "That's a common complaint around here, isn't it?"
-- The Prisoner
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Rain Storm...
We have had a chance of Thunder Storms for the last 2 days. It did not rain here yesterday when we had the greatest chance but it rained this evening. I saw it rolling in and wanted to get a few photos of the clouds. I took the first one in Black and White and the rest in color. All were shot in 16:9 HD Aspect Ratio.
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Our Cat, Another Pose!
I just happened to have my camera handy yesterday afternoon while the cat was looking at me. She is in a comfortable sitting position on the couch and she sits there often. She has a very big attitude and is very playful even at 5+ years old.
Exposure: 0.333 sec (1/3)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 40 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Panorama Creations...
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An Intimate Celestial Bond
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