Do you ever procrastinate on something, put it off for another day, week or month, and then each time you try to revisit it, it’s more and more difficult to begin because of how long you waited? Me too. Way too often. It’s been a week since we flew back to Ohio from the Southwest, [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Photography’
March 27, 2010
The MoJo’s toolkit
In the fall of 2007, I was in Washington for the annual Society of Professional Journalists conference, an organization with student chapters at journalism schools across the country. I went alone, because no one else from my chapter could make the trip, but it was probably better that way. The seminars and workshops at the [...]
March 20, 2010
Goodale Grass
So far, I’ve gotten a lot of use out of my 35mm f1.8 prime lens. It does the job, and well. I love how the depth of field in this shot makes the blurred edges at the top and bottom of the frame seem cartoonish, while the grass in focus pops out at you. I’m [...]
March 20, 2010
An Aisle Seat
This is one of my favorites from a shoot inside the Murphy Theater a couple weeks ago. I’m still awed each time I walk into this place.
February 20, 2010
The Third Floor
We ventured to the abandoned third floor of my building again today. The sun poured in through the big windows facing South street, into the cavernous room covered in pigeon feathers and dust. I took this of Eric as he was looking out of a window toward the iconic Buckley Bros. grain elevators. View it on [...]
February 3, 2010
Lens repair, Lost and the apartment transition
The replacement part I ordered last week for my broken 18-55mm kit lens came in the mail last night, and I spent the better part of an hour fiddling with microscopic screws and a toothpick screw driver putting it all back together. Turns out, I wasn’t born with nimble hands. I dropped one of the [...]
January 27, 2010
Bad Luck or the Day I Almost Cried
By most accounts, today was a good day. Work was long but productive. I tied up some loose ends in regards to a new downtown apartment, where Frankie and I will begin moving in this week. On the way home, I had time to shoot some photos of the sun as it set and cast [...]
January 25, 2010
F-stops and apertures
The 35mm f1.8 lens that I bought online last week came in the mail today, and I’m ready to bokeh all over the place.
December 31, 2009
Once in a Blue Moon
(Flickr photo by markkilner) Tonight’s New Years Eve festivities will be made a little brighter by a full moon in the sky, and a rare full moon at that. Normally, we see a full moon once a month. But once every two years, approximately, we see two full moons in one calendar month, on a [...]
December 29, 2009
A Walk Outside
Today turned out to be a beautiful, albeit freezing, day. One of those deceptively cold days that looks mild and pleasant from inside, but the thermostat outside still reads 24°, 18° with the windchill. I just bought a polarizing filter for my Nikkor zoom lens a few days ago, so I decided to go for a walk when [...]
