June 2010
6 posts
Ascension
Nikon D40 35mm, f/3.2, 1/640 sec, ISO400 Exposed at +2/3 of a stop
Summer Solstice on the Charles
See also: Christmas on the Charles
“In two weeks it’ll be the longest day in the year… Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)
Exams for summer session are over and I am ready to go back to Houston and enjoy the comforts of home again....
Alternate Realities
Nikon D40 35mm, f/13, 1/20 sec, ISO400
The Monument Solomon Built, Plate II
Read more about this monument at the post for The Monument Solomon Built I.
The only difference between this shot and the previously-mentioned one (other than composition, obviously) is that I tried to recreate actual colors in the processing of this one. The other version shows the effects of using cheap eBay neutral density filters on color and vignetting.
Nikon D40 35mm, f/1.8, 2 sec,...
Look Around You
People, especially family, often ask me why I took up photography. Why do I enjoy it so much? The simple answer is that I enjoy it. It gives me a sense of peace.
There is so much beauty around us; the lotus that grows through the sludge, the mechanical perfection of a Bugatti Veyron, the love that drives a stranger to save a child from an oncoming bus, a picture perfect sunset. The justice of...
For Time Everlasting
For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to go to school in Boston. Now, during the college application process, that deep-rooted desire actually took a back seat, with perspective schools founds coast-to-coast, from California to Colorado, Austin to Boston, Wisconsin to New York, and much, much more. When I’d narrowed my list down to two or three schools, it became much more...