Empire State Building

I bought a new lens today... not that this photograph demonstrates it's capabilities, but as I was walking home tonight I couldn't resist taking a few shots of the clouds hovering around the top of the Empire State Building. Oh... and the new lens is a Canon 24-70 f2.8 L

Triborough Bridge

I generally don't like to post images taken from my iPhone on this blog... that is what my iphone camera blog is for. But in the last couple of days I have purchased quite a few photo apps for the iPhone that have recently appeared on the iTunes App store. It's really amazing to me what kind of images you can get out of the stock iPhone camera with a little help from some of these powerful filters. 10 years ago I would have loved to have had some of these filters on a regular desktop/laptop... now I can do it on my phone and upload directly to this blog shortly after taking it and manipulating. Truly amazing times we live in.

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Tree & River in the Morning

Star Trails and Tree

This was a 30 min exposure on the top of a mountain in the George Washington National Forest, Virginia. The foreground tree was lit with a headlamp which I used to paint the tree with for about 1 and a half mins of the total exposure. Because I'm cheap I had to use a stick and duct tape to keep my shutter open for that long on my Canon 30D. The remote to do this the normal way is $140. The stick and duct tape was free.

Daisy

Lychee

So if there are two of them is it pronounced Lychi or Lychees? Ok... sorry I haven't added any new entries to this blog in a month. Summer was definitely in full swing. It's been a weird day. My coworker and I were having a debate whether or not this fruit was pronounced 'lee chee" or his usage "lie chee" I proved that it was the first. Dictionary.com is a beautiful thing. What started all of this was a Korean Aloe drink I purchased which was Lychee flavored. I know... weird in of itself. So not more than two minutes later our IT guy comes by and is giving out Lychee fruit to everyone... He didn't hear the conversation at all. A serious co-winki dink. I'm mean come on... who the hell brings Lychee fruit to work outside of Asia? The photo is the 'fruit' of my labor after receiving two of them. They were delicious!

Yuma, AZ Dusk

I dug this one out of my archives. I took this with my first digital camera, a Canon G1. back in the day it was a great camera. I took several shots of these mountains over the course of an hour as the sun was setting. A half hour prior to this shot the sky was electric blue with a full moon rising. The array of colors in the desert is simply stunning as the light changes.

Within Eye Shot

I was outside Barcelona Bar in New York with a friend of mine when I noticed the large blue neon shot glass in the window of the bar was reflecting perfectly in her eyes. I thought it was an interesting shot... so I made her pose and look in different directions until I had the one that worked best. This was tough as the camera was hand held and the shot was very dark, but the Canon IS helped quite a bit. The colors in this shot are true and there was very little manipulation other than croping and contrast.

New York Fireworks

Happy Independence Day! This is a photo I took on last year's 4th. Today is cloudy so this year may suck for photo ops.