Last night I was trying to make some room on my Hard Drive for more photos and I came across a folder of photos from my vacation to San Francisco in 2009. Why I had never looked through them and posted anything is beyond me, but I found this really cool photo of the Golden Gate Bridge I took so I thought I would share it. It was one of those perfect days where the clouds were low and swirling around the bridge. What I would call a postcard moment. Enjoy.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Thursday, February 11, 2010
It's Snowing!
We don't get snow too often in Texas and today's snow was the good wet snowman making kind. While we were at school today one of my students, Martin, built a tiny snowman outside my classroom door. I saw is and was totally inspired to make a photo. My friend Michelle had given me this ting camera keychain so I took the chain part off it and added it and... "snow-photographer"!
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Then when I got home today I decided I needed to make a better "snow-photographer". I built a little snowman and found a few props. This is my Memaw's old film camera and a pair of earmuffs my mom got me for shooting in the snow a few years back.
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I can't decide which snow man I like better. If only I had a tiny Texas Tech shirt to put on one...maybe tomorrow :)
Saturday, October 24, 2009
NYC by Cellphone.
I forgot my camera when I ran for the train Thursday so I took all my photos on Thursday with my cell phone camera. Fun! It was a challenge and I love a challenge. I challenged myself to take interesting photos of the NY skyline, something not typical. So here they are...
Here is the reflection of the NY skyline in the Javits Center
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This is the NY skyline from inside the Javits Center.
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Riding back to the island on the train I took this photo of the sunset behind the New York skyline
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Tomorrow I will bring my camera and take some more photos.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Water Gardens at night.
Have you ever gone over to the Fort Worth Water Gardens at night? It's really beautiful and a completely different experience than during the day.
This is the entrance on Commerce Street. It's about a 20 second exposure.
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This is a little bit less time. I like the way the water really glows from the side.
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Isn't it surreal? This is a 15 second exposure.
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The Aerated Garden has lights in it and one is blue...the rest are white.
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Raining at the Rangers
I'm working the Rangers vs Mariners game tonight and I was hoping to see Ichiro get some hits, but instead we are sitting in a rain delay. I'm not one to just sit and watch the rain so I went up to the pressbox and made this pretty photo. 1/8 of a second at f/16 with the lens pressed up against the glass. :)
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Then I took a little walk around in the rain and I took this pretty photo of the new Cowboys stadium. Boy, is it raining hard here and the roof doesn't close on the Ballpark!
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Lightning
It stormed this evening which made me think of a photo I took over 10 years ago of a strike of lightning over Fort Worth. It's funny I shot the photo for the newspaper when I worked there, and I've seen it being used on a facebook fan page to be a fan of Fort Worth. I'm guessing that the person who set up that fan page did not legally buy the photo or the rights to use it but what can you do? It would be nice if the person administering the page would at least give the photographer (ME!) some credit for this awesome picture, right?
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It's funny when I think of when I took this photo. I was still shooting film cameras and I was driving back to downtown to process film from an assignment in Denton and it was lightning like crazy over downtown. I pulled over on I-35 and set my camera on the dashboard of my car and just opened the shutter on bulb setting until I saw lightning. I took about 12 frames of film and when I processed the film this was the only one that had any lightning at all in the picture. It's so much easier with digital to look at the back to see if you got the picture but I loved the "old days" when you had to trust your instincts and yourself to be a good photographer.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Sunset Part 2
My husband shot the sunset where he was last night too. Here's what the sunset looked like somewhere in or near Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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Isn't is funny how we didn't talk to each other about the sunset and we both photographed it. Great minds....
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Sunset
Today I photographed a corporate event where people to drive Dragsters at Texas Motorplex and those photos are coming soon, but tonight I'm tired after staying up late three nights in a row and getting up early three mornings in a row at yearbook camp so I don't have the eyes to edit this evening. I need my beauty sleep!
Speaking of beauty. I saw a great sunset tonight as I was leaving my job so I pulled out my camera and ran up to the third floor of suites at the Drag Strip to take this photo.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Vacation Photos
I had some time today to look through my vacation photos for some to share with you.
We left from Puerto Rico just after sunset and this is what it looked like as out ship pulled out to see. The other boat in port was a Carnival Ship. We were on the Adventure of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean Ship.
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Our first stop was in Aruba where we went snorkeling.
I loved all the bright colors of the fins on the boat.
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Next stop Curacao where we saw this adorable little surfer girl...
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...and the famous pastel houses on the waterfront.
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Finally, our last night on the ship was leaving St Thomas and this is what we saw as we were pulling out of the port.
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It was a great vacation with lots of fun pictures to take...maybe next time I'll take an SLR :)
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Cadillac Ranch
I'm in Amarillo to photograph a wedding this weekend so I thought I would take a trip out the the famous Cadillac Ranch for some blog photos. I've been there numerous times before but they have moved it farther west since last time I was there. Really? You can just pick up a monument and move it? Funny if you ask me, but the whole concept is pretty funny anyway - 10 Cadillacs planted in the ground in the middle of a field.
So we over heard this kid say to his dad. "How did this wreck happen?" Then he climbed up on top of the car so his mom could take a photo.
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It was pretty had to get a clean shot of all the cars because there were so many people milling around but I waited and was rewarded with one frame.
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When you drive up to the site there are signs telling you not to spray paint on the outside of the fence.
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And I've never seen people so brazenly painting in the middle of the day. I think everyone there had spray paint but me! There's so much graffiti that you can;t really read any of it and people have taken to painting on the dirt around the cars. Seriously?
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Love the clouds.
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More clouds with a silhouette of the cars.
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It was a fun hour shooting photos and spending time with my mom who was very patient as I waited out the tourists.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Happy Fourth of July
I went out to take photos of fireworks and fourth of July festivities tonight. It's always a challenge to get good fireworks photos and I got one that I think is pretty nice.
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I got there early to make sure I could find a parking place and a good place to photograph from so I took some photos of the other people there. Here's a fun red hat with some flags.
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And this kid had the coolest bubbles!
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Happy Fourth of July!
Friday, June 26, 2009
Rangers Fireworks
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Apparently the Rangers have fireworks every Friday night so next time I will be prepared with my tripod and a fisheye lens to get the facade of the ballpark from side to side. Oh it's going to be so cool!
Friday, June 19, 2009
A Different Perspective, Part 2
Last time I posted about shooting from above I was at the Rangers vs. Yankees baseball game and I said I should take my camera out when I'm in an airplane to try to see the star cut into the grass around the pitcher's mound at the Ballpark. Well, I didn't get to see that but I we did take a nice trip over downtown Fort Worth. It's a pretty cool photo. I feel like Google Earth! HA!
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This is one I took while were were circling in a holding pattern waiting to land in San Francisco. I think it looks like a cool abstract tree. I might use it as an example in my class next fall.
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The Bridge
Yesterday we were driving into San Francisco to do a little sightseeing and much to my happiness when we got to the Golden Gate Bridge it was shrouded in fog. Ahh...the photo I've been waiting for my last three trip to San Francisco! It was pretty amazing to watch the fog move around the bridge. It doesn't just sit there, it's very active and the pictures are different every second. Some moments you can't even see the bridge and the next it's poking out from the top of the clouds.
First up is with the skyline of San Francisco in the background.
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Next is the whole bridge through the fog. Enjoy!
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