Sunday, July 26, 2009

Photowalk at GF Maryland Side



Early Saturday morning - HDR - 3 deep - 4 across - Only shot I took, meet up with Rob Jones and did the Billy Goat Trail....... Good to meet Marc Benton and his lovely wife also. Thanks for putting this together Marc.

I am off to NYC tomorrow for the week..... probably a no blog week

Friday, July 24, 2009

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens III


A quick Pano of the Aquatic Gardens.


Judy Davis was kind enough to make the early morning trek. She is a extremely talented architectural photographer in the DC area, and a very good friend (almost 20 years now). You can see her work here, and her shots from the meetup here.

Andy of Visual Realia is on his way to my house as I type this. We are hitting Ace Photo to check out camera bags, heading to the waterfront for oysters at lunch, and then a shoot at the National Arboretum. Nice day for a photography in DC adventure.

Tomorrow, friend of the blog Marc Benton is having a early morning (7am, need to go light on the beer tonight) photowalk in Great Falls, MD side. (He knows the formal name on his site) Hope to see you there....Judy....Allison.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens II



HDR, -1,0,+1 Photomatix Pro merge and Tonemapped, CS3, curve, and high pass, 4.1, hard light

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Swim Meet at Old Farm







These are from the meet last week. Michael and Olivia both did Freestyle and Backstroke.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Chinatown Photowalk







I went to the Photowalk in Chinatown this past Saturday hosted by Jeff Revell of PhotowalkPro. If your a local, what is up with this weather? 83 in July? Nice day to say the least!!! Saw friends Mark Anderson & Mike Meyer. Meet Robert Klimkiewicz Jr of DC Shutterbugs finally. Had a great lunch at Matchbox to boot. Oh yeah, took a couple pics also.....

My Meetup Group "The When Everyone Else Is Working Photography Meetup Group" is having a Meetup tomorrow morning at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Andy of Visual Realia is paying another visit to DC on Friday. Busy week!!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

I have a Dream too...



Took the family to Madame Tussauds in DC the other day. It was fully of fun little photo ops with the kids.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Mussels & Clams



Our favorite beach (anytime) dish. Clams, Mussels, White Wine, Chicken Stock, Olive Oil, Bacon and Scallions. Of course some crusty garlic baguette to sop up the soup.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

My Girl's



No beach trip would be complete with out the "beach portrait". We did some on the one night it was clear. These were just after our street shoot, and when we went back to the beach house, I grabbed my D300 and a SB800 and did some off camera flash myself.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Clowning Around



At the pool yesterday I read the latest issue of Photoshop user and Matt Kloskowski shared some settings that he use for Photomatix Pro. I used a lighter touch and used LR to mess with contrast and color. I am going to do some of the shots from Maine over the next week with this technique.

BTW this is Old Orchard Beach, Scott and I went on a early moring walk and got the boot after we took a couple shots.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Thursday, July 2, 2009