tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-272764232024-11-01T05:31:09.708-06:00A photography trip around Denver's hidden places, cemeteries, zoo, and surrounding areas.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03007326891656258943noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27276423.post-70333741750015271982014-06-15T14:55:00.001-06:002014-06-18T12:19:58.359-06:00

Comic Con is essentially this: a sprawling exhibit hall filled with a gaggle of fantasy and sci-fi celebrities, cool comic book artists showing their skills, and wily merchants selling comic books and scraps of pop culture. While downstairs a bunch of nifty discussion panels are held (let's talk about zombies!). But what's best about Comic Con is watching the attendees, especially those who dress

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Untitled detail of mobile (1976) by Alexander Calder, National Gallery of Art East Building, Washington, DC These photos show just a small portion of a much larger mobile that can be viewed at the National Gallery's east building from two floors. It moves seemingly on its own in the building's small air currents. But I was fascinated by the way the pieces of the mobile captured the surrounding

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"Figures of Genius" by Philip Martiny from the Ceiling of the Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Washington, DC

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Green and Maroon detail (1953) by Mark Rothko, The Phillips Collection One of my favorite places in Washington, DC is the Rothko Room at the Phillips Collection in the Dupont Circle neighborhood. The room is small and simple, just a single bench surrounded by four Rothko paintings. If you sit in the room facing one of the paintings you might experience a range of feelings that Rothko's art can

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There is nothing cooler than a Tegan and Sara show in an intimate space. Tegan and Sara played a short set and signed autographs at Denver's Twist & Shout record store on August 22, 2013. They played later that night at Red Rocks with Fun. Camera: Nikon D7100; Lens: Nikon 85mm f1.4.

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If you spend some time in the Great Hall of the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress you might find some hidden surprises tucked away in a lunette like this one. Recreation by Charles Sprague Pearce (1851-1914) in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Multiverse (2008) by Leo Villareal in the Concourse between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art If you want to walk from one of Washington, DC's National Gallery of Art Buildings to the other, you can either simply go outside or you can wander through the underground tunnel that connects them. There you will find a light display called Multiverse by Leo Villareal. You

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French Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is known for his paintings of ballet dancers. He also made many sculptures, but only exhibited this one, Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, in his lifetime. It was shown at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris in 1881. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC has the original of this sculpture. Degas used yellow wax, hair, ribbon, a

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The Italian photography magazine, Hyde Park Photography, has released an Apple iBook version of the magazine's first issue for the Apple iPad. A photograph I took in 2008 of Michelle Obama is included in the magazine. Above you can see a screen capture of my photograph from the iPad/iBook edition. You can download Hyde Park Photography's iBook from iTunes here. It's free.

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In the summer of 2008 I photographed a cygnet (baby swan) as it was growing up. Here are some of the photographs I took. About a week old... About a month old... Two-and-a-half months old...

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Tegan Quin Sara Quin Tegan and Sara played a very cool set at Denver's Twist and Shout record store on Sept. 13, 2010. I managed to take a few photographs while peeking through all the people, record racks, amps and microphone stands. They played later that night with Paramore at Red Rocks. Camera: Nikon D80; Lens: Nikon 85mm f1.4. Also see: Tegan and Sara in Aspen

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In the early 1980s I received a plastic 35mm camera as a promotional gift for subscribing to Time magazine. The camera was made by a company called Lavec in Taiwan. It came with a strap, lens cap and case. Unlike the Holga and Diana cameras, the Lavec doesn't seem to have much of a following. But I enjoyed playing around with it. Here are three pictures I took with the Lavec camera around the

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My "Swan Dance" gallery was shown in a photography gallery in Sydney, Australia as part of Panasonic's Lumix Life exhibition. Here are some screen shots from a webcam set up in the gallery, along with the original photos.You can see more of my swan photos at: Trumpeter Swans by Joe Beine

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These wooden tops were made by Alan Gray, a mechanical engineer, who enjoys making toys that balance. The package they came in arrived on a sunny spring day. When I opened the box the sunlight from outside my front door and window made a nice glow on the red tissue paper and the colored top. So I took a picture.The top maker's website is at: Wood Tops

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In October 2008 I went to a rally on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder to hear Michelle Obama speak. Although I was buried in the crowd I was able to take some photographs of her with my Nikon D80 and a 70-300mm zoom lens. A skate girl next to me let me stand on her skateboard for a few shots. She had to steady me because skateboards aren't really designed for this sort of thing. Later

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Five photographs I took inside the Norman Petty recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico were used in a documentary called "New Mexico Legends - The Norman Petty Studios." The documentary was produced by the New Mexico Music Commission and you & me productions. It first aired on New Mexico PBS stations on June 4, 2009. It features Buddy Holly, the Fireballs, LeAnn Rimes and others.Here are the

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Instax is instant film like Polaroid used to make. I recently bought a Fujifilm Instax 200 camera. It's a large plastic camera about 7" long and 5" high. It has three exposure settings (lighten, normal and darken) and two lens settings (0.9 to 3 meters and 3 meters to infinity). I'm having fun playing around with it. Here are two of the first photographs I took with my Instax camera. Wheat Sky

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Michelle Obama at a rally in Boulder, Colorado, October 1, 2008Thanks to the cool skategirl next to me who let me stand on her skateboard for added height!

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Barack Obama rally at the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo, Colorado. Camera: Nikon D80, 70-300mm lens.

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For more photographs of events surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Denver see: Fields of Peace - DNC in Denver Photographs

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When taking pictures I usually try to get the shot I want without thinking about later adjustments or cropping. In the digital world we live in it's easy to take a photograph and possibly improve on it with Photoshop and other programs. But I live in the natural world too and I prefer to just leave things alone. Of course my Nikon D80 is a digital thing, but really all it does it capture light on

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Tegan and Sara played at Belly Up Aspen in Colorado on April 30, 2008. It was off-season in Aspen, the period between the end of the ski season and summer, so the town was quiet. But the club was filled with a boisterous crowd of Tegan and Sara fans, including many who had driven from Denver. I was able to take a few photos with my Nikon D80 from the crush of crazy fans on the dance floor in

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South Lake in the Snow, Washington Park, DenverJanuary 19, 2008Camera: Nikon D80

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The Plaza, Santa Fe, New MexicoCamera: Nikon D80

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Trumpeter Swans, Denver Zoo, 3 August 2007Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ8

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