Upde Designs

Nikon D800 | Nikon 24 – 70 mm lens | ISO 100 1/160 sec @f7.1

Happy Saturday.  Today I complete a project.  It is my second 52 week project that I have completed.  It has been enjoyable and it is fun to look back over the last two years one week at a time through the images I have captured.  If you are interested you can click here to see the completed project.

I have a whole week to decide if I’m going to do my 3rd 52 week project.  I can tell you that, at least for the time being I am really enjoying my 365 project.  It is making me look at my environment much differently.

Nikon D800 | Nikon 24 – 70 mm lens | ISO 100 1/160 sec @f7.1

One thing that has changed is what I now look for in an image.  Before if I hadn’t got to shoot on my lunch break and I was tired at the end of the day I might just drive home and not think about photography at all.

Now I think about it every day so I take different routes home now and look for opportunities to capture an image.  One of these days I’m going to drive right into a ditch.  🙂

Yesterday evening I took an alternative road to Asbury.  I’ve taken this road 20 – 30 times in the last year but never found anything I wanted to shoot.  Last night however I went by a farm-house with this old road grader parked near an old barn.  Now I’m willing to bet the road grader has been there for a long time but I just never paid any attention to it.

Nikon D800 | Nikon 24 – 70 mm lens | ISO 100 1/160 sec @f7.1

I spent a fair amount of time shooting this grader.  Because of its location it was hard to get angels that didn’t have a lot of background clutter.  One of the things I’ve learned about shooting the D800 is that it is not as easy to remove background clutter as with a smaller megapixel file.

Anyway Jeanne and I are going on a photo shoot this evening and then have dinner at Crust.  The last time I ate there was the night Joshua was born.  I want to shoot some more images of the old Warehouse District.  So it should be an enjoyable evening.

I hope you enjoy your Saturday.  Thank you for checking out the blog and be careful.