Father and Son

I took this photo as a Christmas gift for Marcy. Now that she's received it I can finally post it. Photographing this baby continues to be a challenge but every once in a while you get a keeper. Merry Christmas!

The Fabulous Fox

I had been wanting some photos of downtown Atlanta for a while now, and while I was down seeing Australian Pink Floyd, I brought my camera to capture this Atlanta icon.

Dicks Creek

I made it up to Dicks Creek yesterday to snap some fall foliage photos. I think I was a couple weeks late in my endeavor but I still came away with a couple that I like. I also got to do my first waterfall photo with slow shutter speed. The second photo is a popular swimming hole in the summers in North Georgia even though the mountain stream is as cold as ice. I went there a couple of times in college and although it's been about 6 years since I've been there, it was exactly the way I remembered it.

Georgia Aquarium

I took this at the Georgia Aquarium a couple of weeks ago. I love the colors.

NYC

After much interrogation about who exactly "Karl" is, I decided to give Mel the benefit of the doubt and took the photo to mark the occasion. Atop the Empire State building, one of the best views from any tall building in my opinion. After flipping through my photos from the trip, I decided I really like this one with Manhattan in the background.

A hot and long one at Turner Field

It was my first time seeing future hall-of-famer Ken Griffey Jr. play.

Pinch hitting for John Smoltz who threw seven scoreless innings with a season high 11 strikeouts, Chris Woodward squares to bunt. (...yeah, I thought John Smoltz was capable of bunting on his own too, turned out Soriano gave up a 2-run shot afterwards)

In the bottom of the 10th, Chipper Jones representing the winning run stands 90 feet away, but the Braves can't plate him.

Fire Dancer

While we were in Orlando, Mel and I took in a luau at the resort at Universal Studios. The fire dancer was by far the coolest part of the whole thing, although admittedly, all of it was pretty cool. I was happy with how this turned out after only a couple of adjustments while shooting.

Independence Day

My first try at fireworks... and not too bad. Stone Mountain Park was retardedly packed yesterday and Mel spotted a place to sit right on the guard rail in the front. It's the only bad part of the photos I took last night I think. The show was great though. For those of you who are like me and have been to countless Laser Shows at Stone Mountain Park, let me save you the suspense and tell you that the laser technology hasn't changed in at least 20 years. They do project full color images on the mountain as seen with the flags in the second shot.

An exercise in contrast

Window, originally uploaded by c2mfj.

Tall vs Short, Fat vs Skinny, or Light vs Dark. All examples in one way or another of contrast. Using a dilapidated old house I came up with this photo for an assignment over at digital-photography-school.com

Rust

Here's a roll of tomato fence I found and thought would make an interesting photo. I'm not a big fan of the light in the bottom right, but this was taken with my point 'n shoot Nikon.

Slow Sync Flash

Here's an example of using a slow sync flash. Just a little trick where you can use a slow shutter speed to show blur of motion and then the flash pops at the end of the exposure (rather than the beginning) to freeze everything nice and crisp-like.

Lake Wedowee, AL

This weekend I stayed with some friends at their new lake house in Alabama. It was an excellent weekend of relaxation. I took this one morning before any activity got going on the lake. I love it when the water is like glass.

Sam

This shot did not even come close to what I had imagined before I took it. The gravel and white siding completely wash out the the bottom half of the photo and even the dog is out of focus. I guess I just wanted a permanent record of how my inexperience stands in the way of a good idea. It just makes me want to become better. Besides, I didn't even ask the dog if I could take his photo. But, there's just something about a dog in a doorway...
Sam is guarding a local boat mechanic's shop in Buford, GA.

Fleet Pond

I also took this during my last trip to England. My girlfriend and I went down to a local pond that had a nature trail and had a good wander. I really like when you can get all the tiny twigs and sticks coming off the branches that make a nice web against a bright sky.

Portsmouth, England

A little editing 8 years later...


This was my first attempt at properly shooting a sunset. I was incredibly lucky, because if you have ever been to England, you know how cloudy it usually is. I enjoy the lighting created in this shot because it does actually capture the ambient light of that evening. I couldn't have asked for better foreground subject matter.

James

My nephew was born on May 23rd at roughly 1AM. My brother and I were hanging out at the nursery and viewing the newest addition to our family.

James Christopher, getting some much needed sleep after a long trip into the world.

Memorial Day

Today I went out to Collins Hill park to practice some photography and to further familiarize myself with the intricacies of the dSLR. Here's a bird that I followed around for about 10 minutes. He would always stay about 20 feet away from me, constantly keeping the buffer should I close the gap.

On my way out I ran into the Sheltons (Justin, Amanda, Parker and Hayden). Here's Parker with his "rescue pack".