St Louis, Missouri Part 2

On the late night adventure in St. Louis that was mentioned in my previous post I took a few photos. Here is one.
Canon Dslr
Sigma Glass @ 10mm
ISO 6400
f/4 @ 0.4 second

St Louis, Missouri

On the way home from Kansas I stopped in St Louis to show my friend Lauren the Arch. She was impressed and wanted to get out and shoot some photographs. Our first try at doing this did not work out as the Park Ranger told us we were not able to go on the grounds. I forgot to mention that it was 3:00 in the morning and about 15 degrees out. The Ranger was kind enough to tell us where we could go. So we drove down to Sullivan BLVD and walked around for a while.
Here is a candid shot of my friend Lauren working her magic.
Exposures were long and ISO was high.
enjoy

I'm going home.

I am going home to Kansas for Thanksgiving next week, and I cannot wait. I have been cleaning off some old hard drives and found an image that screams "Kansas" too me. This image is pretty old. It was shot with my first DSLR about four or five years ago probably with the kit lens. There is nothing fancy here, nothing of a creative masterpiece or anything close to the sort.
Just an image of home.
Enjoy.

Veterans Day

My mom made an awesome blog post about my father.

He is a veteran of the Vietnam war.

You can read it here.

Wasp video

I was sitting at my desk today and this wasp fell from the ceiling. I trapped him with the nearest thing within my reach, a lupe. Somehow this inspired me to make a video about him.
The wasp was not harmed during the making of this video and was set free once the filming had completed. I released him back into the wild outside of the paint shop at Alderman.


Click here to watch the video.

They're coming for you Barbara!

This is the Saint Anthony Cemetery in Chase County, KS. This was taken in late May of this year on a drive through the blooming Flint Hills. The Flint hills are in my opinion one of the must see travel destinations of Kansas.
This image was shot with 'Rosebud' on Ilford SFX IR film.

Indiana bricks

This summer I drove through southern Indiana. It was a nice drive with rolling hills and farms. I stopped at an abandoned farm. These bricks are the grain silo. The silo is pretty much the only thing left standing.
This was shot with 'Rosebud' on whatever black and white film was in there, probably tmax 100.
enjoy.

Welcome to Greensboro, NC. The city that I live in.

Last week my friend Lauren and I walked around downtown Greensboro with our cameras.
This is a photograph I took with my dslr from one of the parking garages. Edited in post to look like a black and white image and then solarized. Some lighting magic was used during the exposure as well.
Enjoy.

Straight down the Khyber part 2

Here is another straight down image of a thistle that I shot in western Kansas.
Shot with my Canon dslr, Sigma 50mm lens.

Straight down the Khyber

Sometimes I like looking straight down onto things. This probably started in my subconscious when I first saw the movie called Candyman. There are a lot of camera views looking directly down on a city in that movie and it caught my attention. It is a pretty common thing in movies now, but that is the first one that I can remember sticking out in my memory.
Anyhow back to the point... This is a plant in the Nevada desert.
Shot with 'Rosebud' on Ilford SFX 200.

any colour you like (so long as it's yellow)

Life is everywhere, even in Death Valley.

I was reviewing my blog posts and it seems color is lacking from most of my images, so here is some color!

This image was taken with my Canon DSLR in April of this year.

I really miss my friends out west.

desolate landscape

Today several of my friends from college drove across my home state of Kansas on their journey back to North Carolina. They of course drove I-70 across the whole state. I have been speaking with one of them via text messages and they stopped in Victoria at the Cathedral of the Plains at my suggestion. I am not sure where else they stopped or if they even stopped anywhere else. I wish they could have stopped to visit my friend Renee in Concordia but it didn't work out.
Driving the interstate through Kansas doesn't allow you to see the good parts. I guess that is where the idea for this blog post comes from. I have been to a lot of the good places in Kansas and want to share them.
The following image was taken in Rooks County Kansas near Sugar Loaf mound, and about three miles from where my dad grew up. One of his friends lived on the homestead that this barn was apart of when they were younger.
I shot it with 'Rosebud', my Mamiya 645 Medium Format camera on Kodak chrome. Edited in post to add more feeling of desolation to the image.

Milo

Here is a milo field in the Flint Hills in east central KS. I shot this back in May with my Mamiya 645 with Illford SFX 200 IR film.

Blueridge Parkway

Canon AE-1
35mm film
ISO 25

My mom's Christmas tree 2008

While I was home for Christmas in 2008 I snapped this photo of my moms Christmas tree. It was shot with my Mamiya 645 on Kodak Tmax 100 black and white film.

Sugar Loaf Mound, Rooks County Kansas.

This was taken in May of this year while visiting family in Kansas.
Mamiya 645
Kodak E100 Chrome

Wind Farm

While visiting family and friends in Kansas last month I shot this video of a wind farm in the north central part of the state.
The music is by the band, The Appleseed Cast, who are from Lawrence, Kansas.

Great Blue Herons

While hiking through the Carolina countryside I ran across several Herons fishing.

Mamiya 645
55mm 2.8
T-Max 100

Zzyzx Road, California

Kodak T-max 100

Rooks County, Kansas

Illford SFX 200 IR

Wind Farm

While traveling home from my internship I stopped off in the middle of the night at a wind farm in north central Kansas.

some people are crazy.

Somewhere in Colorado

I made a little video while I was in Colorado last week. You can watch it here.

somewhere in Utah

So I made a little video today. You can watch it here.

Atmosphere Weather Testing

On my last full day in Las Vegas I was getting fuel in my car when I noticed one lonesome cloud in the north western sky. This cloud is not a normal cloud in respect to the natural atmosphere. I have no idea what is going on, and who is doing the testing (the government) but it was obvious to me. I then went on to wonder how many drunk people there were wondering around on the strip at that very moment without a clue something like this was going on.
What do you think?