Lily

David Smelson

Executive Portrait for David for his business.

A Capital View

Tulip Abstract

From the Brookside Gardens set.

You ever have one of those perfect weekends, Julia was off for 4 days this past weekend, and I cannot remember a better weekend. We ate good food multiple times with friends, spent hours at our pool club on Saturday - Monday, the kids are at that official "you do not have to watch me every minute" we will check in and have fun with our friends stage. We made it downtown on Sunday for a walk at the Botanical Gardens, saw Rolling Thunder and ate dirty water half smokes and pretzels with mustard. In between all of that I got in 18 holes at Hampshire Greens. If this is a preview of the summer, I cannot wait!!!!

Rolling Thunder

Took the family downtown to see Rolling Thunder yesterday, we stopped off at the Botanical Gardens also.

Memorial Day Tribute

Go to Weekly Photography Tips. Scott is taking down his blog for the weekend and has replaced it with a tribute for veterans. Thanks Scott.

Candy Girl

Olivia is the self proclaimed candy princess and she is posing in front of what we were told is the oldest candy shop in the US in Philadelphia.

Also if you have not seen the trailer for the new Star Wars movie that is coming out on August 15th go check out http://www.starwars.com/index2.html It is pretty cool, Michael wants to watch it over and over.

Smelson's Crabcake

Shot with D300, Available light with 24-70 2.8 Nikkor - I did do a lil blur effect on the bottom table.

Boys of Summer

Michael and his friends at the pool opening party this past weekend - Looks to be the place from summer fun this year.

P & P Blogroll A-G

First, thanks for hopping over here to my very little corner for the Jason D. Moore P & P blogroll with Mike Palmer.


These are my favorite from last week... A-G

Bride Waiting from A Clean-Well Lighted Place
Loving that Gobbler on Old Tom from A "focus" in the Wild.
Dietrich's Meats III from A Walk Through Durham Township
My New Home Town from Archerfoto
Summer Meadow from Black and White Photography
Cleopatra’s Needle (Montage) from Black and White Photos of New York
Happy Anniversary Cara and Charlie from Bruce L. Snell Photography
Camera Dojo has a post about Photoshop Express Updates
Canon Blogger has a Photo Finish Friday
Crash Taylor always has a great shot for Image of the Day
Creative Green TV (No. 42) over at Creative Sweet TV
Dave Cross reviews the Joey L Tutorials
Home Alone 2 From Dave Stremel Photography
Tunnel View With Clouds from F11
Graphic Design Tips has a tip on Resumes

Oysters on the Front

I found out that hot sauce and horseradish is the best way = ) went down to the fish market in DC after our local swim and tennis club open this past Saturday, We were waiting for a bushel of crabs to be steamed, and could not resist the oysters - $11 for dozen - best deal in town!! So I have shots of the pool opening, a couple more market and Dave did "The Best Damn Crab Cake" (Dave is in the Texas shirt) on Sunday that I did a shot of. Big thanks to Cheryl for all of her diligence in picking the remaining crabs for us. I will be posting more from the weekend this week.

Got Books

I am a sucker and always drawn toward used book shops. This one is a stall in the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelpha. Have a good weekend!

Got some time to spare on INCREDIBLE photography - PDN Photo Annual 2008

Strobist

My first attempt at manual strobe lighting - 1 sb800 shot into a white umbrella on the left, fill on the right, triggered with Elinchrome Skyport. The "are you done yet" look - Olivia

Also Weekly Photo Tips is requesting images for memorial day of veterans. He used a image that I made for Geographic Compositon. Speaking of Geographic Composition, Jason just posted the latest theme "Yellow".

Ice Cream for Breakfast

Playing Dominos in Philly

We had a great weekend in Philadelphia. We were able to get some of the historical sites in and a visit to the Franklin Institute.

Get to the Point

Still have a few more abstracts, but will save them for a slower day to come. We are heading to Philadelphia for the weekend so I should have some images from the trip to post next week. Have a great weekend.

Purple and White

Almost there

shades of R

Purple and Green

This week is more abstracts that I shot at Brookside Gardens.

PhotowalkPro is setting up a photowalk in Georgetown for later this month. He used one of my images today on his site, Thanks Jeff!

NEW BLOG ALERT -- Enigma3Photography is run by my friend Wolf, go check his new blog out!!!

Erin and The Boys

I shot Erin and her boys for Washington Parent last month. Erin is a writer/editor at large/blogger/Mom and a great neighbor I might add also. You can read her stories at her website.

Green

I went over to check out Brookside Gardens yesterday, just put the 105 micro on and hand held with short burst shooting to get some abstracts ala some inspiration from Jen Weaver. I was looking for color and texture. It is most definetely a go back with the tripod place. Wolf?