Happy Monday!
Only one image for you today. This is what I saw last night standing on my patio. Well actually I had to get a different angle on it but it was this dramatic.
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Happy Saturday!
If you like barns, then this is a good post for you. I have three different barns to show today. If you don’t then we’ll see you the next time.
These images are from my barn shoot of last week. They are all owned by my friend Roger. This barn sits about 200 yards away from the 150 year old barn on his farm. We didn’t do any interior shots of it. Just a nice looking farm structure.
This barn sits at his residence in Maquoketa. It’s last few years were used more as a production facility and offices for a specialty business. Now for the most part it just sits empty and looks stately. 🙂
This is the 150 year old barn from my favorite perspective. The front and other side of the barn have been sided to prevent further deterioration. This barn was on the Jackson County barn tour that concluded a couple of weeks ago.
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Happy Thursday!
I have a couple more portraits from my Tuesday session to show today. I love working with studio lights and would like the opportunity to do more fine art photography but doing corporate head shots doesn’t really lend itself to that type of lighting.
One of these days I’m going to find someone who doesn’t mind having their picture taken and experiment with different lighting ratios. 🙂
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Happy Wednesday!
I have two images for you today. Busy work day filled with a variety tasks. I taught leadership to some staff and our interns in the morning. Paperwork in the afternoon and then around 3:30 p.m. I did one of my favorite things to do with photography, corporate head shots.
I photographed our five interns and then some employees for our websites and finally some who just wanted to update their business image.
After work I went with my friend Roger to his farm where he has a magnificent 150 year old barn. I made a lot of images of the barn for a presentation he is doing and then photographed the interior of the barn. The lighting wasn’t too bad in this section of the barn but to do it justice I did a five shot HDR image. I would encourage you to click on the image to reveal a larger more detailed version and just spend some time looking at the construction of this amazing structure.
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Happy Monday!
I have four images today all about family. Jeanne and I went to Gabby’s soccer practice and scrimmage yesterday afternoon. It is always fun to watch the little ones play or at least run around. 🙂
At one time the other team only had one player on the field (his teammates were all getting snacks) and he still scored a goal.
The whole crew shows up for practice. Gabby is on break for snacks. They generally play 3 on 3 soccer and they have six kids on each team so they all get some exercise. Gabby didn’t really have much interest in the game yesterday.
Josh is taking some advanced classes this summer and each week they teach a new life skill. This is his pet gerbil that he has to take care of. He has it with him constantly and feeds him and plays with him. Maybe someday he will get a real one. 🙂
We had a little trouble keeping Austin off the field. He was enjoying the exercise as well. It was a perfect day for soccer. Low 60s, partly cloudy and a nice breeze.
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Happy Sunday!
I have three images to show today. Yesterday afternoon I went roaming through the countryside. Went to some places I haven’t been in several years. The light was not great but the sky was full of big puffy clouds so it was a good trade-off. You can click on the images to make them larger and see more detail.
Found this old windmill minus the fan blades. It was keeping watch over the hay bales.
I found an old road guard rail that had fallen down the side of a hill and I stopped to take some images of it (I didn’t like any of them.) As I was getting back in the car I happened to glance behind me and there was a large buck dear slowly crossing the road. By the time I turned the camera back on and got it to my eye he was gone. 😦
I love old barns and I found this guy sitting next to an abandoned farm home. There were all kinds of no trespassing signs around so I could only photograph it from the road, which really didn’t give me the best angle.
Felt good to be out with a camera again. 🙂
Enjoy your day.
Happy Thursday!
Quick post today. I was asked to take an image of a new employee for our website. I didn’t have my lights with me so made this image with the Nikon D4S | Nikon 85mm f1.4 lens |ISO 100 f7.1 @ 1/60 sec | Nikon speed light 910 with flash modifier. Not my normal portrait setup but it needed to be done quickly.
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Happy Tuesday!
It seems like it’s been a long time since I took an image with my camera. Really only a few days but the camera felt unfamiliar in my hands.
I saw these bikes on the way to work yesterday and made a mental note to photograph them on the way home. There were some amazing clouds but I couldn’t capture them in the scene.
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Happy Friday!
Only one image today. I was downstairs watching the US Open when Jeanne said, “You’ve got to come up and see this sky!” We had just gone through a thunderstorm and the sky was what you see here.
That’s all I got.
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Happy Sunday!
Only one image today from my Green Island shoot of last week. A young family of geese swimming in the canal.
Nothing else on my mind today.
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