Blue sky...

I was browsing my motocross images and decided to throw up a couple ones that did not include any terrafirma... as far as I'm concerned it's hard to get an interesting motocross shot that doesn't include a background, but I think I did an okay job with these. Enjoy.

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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II w/70-200mm, 1/500 @ f/8, ISO100

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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II w/24-70mm, 1/2000 @ f/4.5, ISO200

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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II w/24-70mm, 1/3200 @ f/5, ISO200

Steel Ponies...

As a motocross racer, it's not too surprising that I enjoy photographing the sport. In fact, I got my start in photography by doing just that. During one of my many injury leaves from the sport I picked up a camera and started snapping, and that was that. Here are a few images that I really like, though there will have to be a part two for this one, as I have way too many to narrow down to just a few. Enjoy.

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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II w/300mm, 1/500 @ f/5.6, ISO200

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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II w/24-70mm, 1/2500 @ f/5, ISO200


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Nikon D2x w/70-300mm, 1/1500 @ f/5.6, ISO400


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Canon EOS-10D w/24-70mm, 1/125 @ f/14, ISO400


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Nikon D2x w/24-70mm, 1/5000 @ f/3.5, ISO1250

Patience....

One of my favorite things to do with a camera is long exposure shots. I don't know what it is about them, but I love the look of an image taken at night. My digital doesn't give me the luxury of doing anything more than 30 seconds, but I've spent several nights out in the desert or mountains during the new moon, doing five or six hour star trail shots with my 4x5. It's a good excuse to sit around in the dark silence and just enjoy being alone.....holding a baseball bat in case a mountain lion or something shows up. Since film is not easily posted on a blog, here are a few digital ones...maybe I'll find someone with a film scanner and win their friendship for the sole purpose of scanning my star trail photos. Maybe...

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Canon EOS-10D w/24-70mm, 30s @ f/2.8, ISO800

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Canon EOS-10D w/24-70mm, 30s @ f/7.1, ISO100

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Canon EOS-10D w/24-70mm, 15s @ f/5.6, ISO800

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Canon EOS-10D w/24-70mm, 25s @ f/14, ISO800

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Canon EOS-10D w/24-70mm, 8s @ f/4, ISO400

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Canon EOS-10D w/24-70mm, 30s @ f/3.5, ISO200

As the sun sets on another post...

What photographers archives would be complete without the cliched sunset photos? Here's a couple.

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Canon EOS-10D w/24-70mm, 1/125th @ f/4.5, ISO400

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Canon EOS-10D w/24-70mm, 1/125th @ f/2.8, ISO400

First post awkwardness...

Hey there, if you know of my blog for it's first post, then chances are that you know me and therefore don't need a lengthy explanation of who I am. If you don't, here is a quick rundown. I used to be an aspiring professional photographer in California. Now I am an ex-aspiring professional photographer turned aspiring Mechanical Engineer in Chicago. Problems making up my mind in life? Maybe. As far as why I have this blog, the reason is pretty basic. Since I stopped working as a photographer for the time being, I have kind of let the pursuit of that form of art drop out of my life and my skills stagnate. This blog thing is just an excuse to go through the many thousands of old images that I have and do some of the post-production that I never bothered to do before, and hopefully bring to life and share some good images that might otherwise be wasted. Too, I really need to get myself shooting new stuff again, even if it isn't on the production level that I got used to. Perhaps this will be the excuse I need to dust off the old Canon (or if I'm feeling up for it, the 4x5 View Camera.)

I'm not really out to show off anything amazing here, and I'm kind of going to start off with alot of my early images from when I just picked up a camera. I wasn't really "technically" good or anything back then so the images aren't really stunning; but that's when it was the most fun for me, and that's what I'm trying to make this all about again.

Anyhoo, thanks for having a look. If photo is your thing, I'd love to get as in-depth of a critique as you'd care to give. Of course, I have to kick things off with an image or two...

These few images are from a little trek I took with my Brother and my friend Chris to an abandoned coal processing plant on the south side of Chicago back in 2005. I don't know if the place is still there, but it made for a pretty interesting day just poking around and taking photos.

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Canon EOS-10D w/28-105mm, 1/60th @ f/5.6, ISO400

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Canon EOS-10D w/28-105mm, 15sec @ f/19, ISO400

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Canon EOS-10D w/28-105mm, 1/45 @ f/4, ISO800