My friends from HURT finally made their way up to the New England area.  It’s been more than two years since I’ve seen them play.  Hopefully their new label, Carved, takes care of them and has them play New England more often!

I have been getting more into people photography lately and had the honor of photographing my good friend’s wedding in New Hampshire.  Better Together Photography will be the name of the photography service.  Here are a few of my favorite shots from the wedding.

Went up Mt. Washington in New Hampshire by train….  Yup! Built in 1857, the Mt. Washington Cog Railway is a small train that powers up the 6000ft. peak in the White Mountains and I have to say it was pretty neat!  Apparently there are only three of these Cog Railways in the world so it felt pretty special to get to do this so close to home.

This pair belongs to a couple of my friends.  Izzy, the cat is  rather curious and mostly cautious.  When she does interact she is quite affectionate.  And sometime she just sits there and stares into space.  Remy is a happy go lucky and loyal Papillon who can blink faster than anything.  Most of my shots were unusable because he would blink every time my shutter clicked.  We didn’t get to run around out side but maybe we will on my next visit.

Spacing out.

Wut r u smiling about?

Here are a few shots from a quick visit to Miami, Florida while visiting Grandma.    The first photo is my best selling stock image to date.

Great show.

This is Supersillyus opening the evening.

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Meet Dusky. Dusky loves snow.  That’s all I can really say and you’ll see why…  It was a cold winter’s day and we went snow shoeing with this young girl.  It was impossible to capture her standing still because I don’t think she was still for more than two seconds.  She really challenged my abilities that day and it was a welcomed challenge.

She would be following right behind me while walking through the trails and then all of a sudden, DART up the path, NOSE DIVE in the snow,  and CHARGE back.  We were out for about three hours and her energy was unrelenting.  I now present to you, Dusky, the Flying Lab!

I revisited yet another one of my images from Thailand.  Here is the famous Big Buddha on the island of Koh Samui, Thailand.   The Buddha is about 40ft or 12m tall.  When I arrived on the scene, by rented motor scooter, I was lucky to catch this beautiful sunset which turned out to be quite the dramatic sky in the finished image.  One year ago, I was so new to HDR processing and Photoshop and I feel like I can do better now.  There are infinite possibilities when you actually sit down and start rendering and image.

Photography Jargon:  This is a 5 exposure HDR image from -2/+2 ev.  Taken with a D200 and Sigma 10-20mm @10mm.  I was unable to transport much on the rental scooter so I had to leave my tripod at the bungalow.  I really had to keep a steady hand for this one.

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This weekend we made a day trip to New York and tried to win lottery tickets for the Broadway musical “American Idiot.”  Billy Joe Armstrong was scheduled to perform and the lottery mob was so big that our chances of winning were severely diminished.   After our second attempt at the lottery, we resolved to try another day when there would be a smaller crowd so we drove out to Brooklyn Bridge Park and with our cameras and tripods.  I was hoping to capture the bridge at sunset but we were too late so my sunset will have to wait for another day.

This is one of my favorite shots of the evening.  They are doing construction on the bridge so you can see it has some bandages on and you can also see the construction equipment below.  I think it’s kinda neat and gives some perspective to the size of the bridge.  I really love how you can see the individual stones in the main support structures.  It’s truly a beautiful work of art.

Photography Jargon:  This is a 5 exposure HDR image made with my D200 and Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 VC lens.  Focal length was set to 29mm, aperture was set  to f/10 and ISO was 200.  I used a tripod, Phottix Plato remote shutter trigger and, of course,  shot in RAW format.

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I have been going through some of my Thailand photos and reprocessing them.  I became particularly fond of this giant Buddha and decided to present him in a Sepia tone.  This statue is 50ft tall and 35ft wide.

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