do more photography

Past weekend I have done some photography again! I grabbed the bag, tripod and camera and scooted out to the dunes. Standing on top of the stairs over the dunes, I took a 360° picture (about 30 separate pictures) near the road and a 180° picture near the sea. They could have been better (I have to get back into the technical details to get the lighting, diafragma, etc better), but I had some fun with Photoshop too.

The best thing actually, was that I came to re-realize how much fun it always is. When you don’t go out on a real photo-trip (even if it’s only for 30 minutes), you tend to forget how much you like it. It felt amazing, so maybe getting that feeling back will spurt me into going out and shoot some pics more often…

okay, it ain’t no Dorothea Lange, but it’s a baby foot – they’re always cute _{to somebody}

geese go by

and just a few blocks from the I-90 freeway. You’d never guess you were that close to civilization

and bldgs

for a peaceful kind of scenery shot. If you’re into that sort of thing. :)

One of the main problems I always had was to take all my equipment along. Yesterday I bought (in the school department of a shop) a trolley-backpack. It’s for kids going to school, but so what? The real trolleys for photography cost loads of money and this was okay of price. Taking the bag along to the coast to stuff my equipment in it and then: on the go! (Hopefully at least…)

setting. Too bad I can’t hold still. I’ll pull my tripod out of the closet to give the macro a fair shot.

but as soon as I focus on him with my camera, he flies. Animals can sense just the right moment to mess up a photo. At least he didn’t go totally blurry on me.

and this guy rows by. It amazes me how much people here use the river & the trail. The photo was shot just a few blocks from a main arterial, too!

_{Until 1957, sewage was pumped directly into this river! Seems kind of late to be doing that, but amazing how much can be restored}