Shadows & Sand

I love shadows. A simple shadow can add so much to an ordinary shot. Of course my camera doesn't like shadows so trying to keep a shadow in a photo can be (is) a constant source of frustration.

By the way... all photos I post are unedited... I'll let y'all know if I ever have the time to mess with them. :)

Beach Outreach

These are some photos I took when my family and I went with our church on the boardwalk and passed out tracts and played some worship songs.

PS: Things are finally (sorta) slowing down!

Beachfest 08

Went to Beachfest this weekend. Very cool. Saw the BMX show and Toby Mac. BMX was a lot harder to shoot than i thought. Of course, this was  a point n' shoot. You can tell the difference between the original and edited BMX pictures. Most of the others were really blurry. 

Oh, if you ever get the chance to go to a Toby Mac show, go, his shows are so good, even if you're not the biggest fan of his music.

Senior Trip

So last week we went on our senior trip. It's been in the works since last year, so we got it worked out to stay in a really nice house twenty minutes from all the parks we went to in Orlando. (Except Busch Gardens in Tampa). We did everything but Disney. Lots of action during our trip, so i didn't get much chance to take my time taking pictures. (that's my excuse, and i'm sticking to it). I was actually doing a a lot of filming. Just practicing for school this fall i guess. 

Oh, and in case you don't read my other blog, i just got my new laptop too. So i've been having tons of fun in iphoto. 

here is some of my faves,

 First pic of the trip. We left at 4:30 (yes, AM) to beat traffic. Says my aperture was f 2.8. Ya, i'm not positive what that means. I think it was something like 1.5 sec exposure. Unedited.

Seven thirty in Universal Studios. Pretty much full auto camera settings. However, i am enjoying my new computer, so i edited it a little, also adding the vignette. ('vin-yay'; the burnt corners took me a while to learn that term, but maybe ya'll all ready knew it)

Having no one else to boss around, i made myself the subject in this one. It was six-thirty, and the sunset was reflecting off the concrete pillar i'm standing behind in the pic. I hate to say it is edited, but only slightly. 

Good afternoon sun. Edited a little for contrast, took a couple tries to get it with his mouth open. It was a little bit of zoom; we were pretty close.

This is Busch Gardens. Best wooden coaster i've been on. It's ten after one in this pic, but i liked the angle while waiting in line.