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These were shot back at the Gardens. Their seasonal displays are always excellent. I thought these gave a nice flavor of Fall, and they’re so colorful! I guess pumpkins are one of my more favorite things about the season. They’re all so different, cool looking, and they make pretty good pie too

Went back to Longwood Gardens this weekend. It’s one of my favorite places to go relax and casually shoot. This time I shot for panos, panoramas that is, in the huge conservatory they have there. The first image is the main room of the conservatory, and the complete pano is made of 6 images. The …

This little technique is so much fun. Just put the cam on a tripod, get all the settings right (and KEEP them that way) then just move the subject around. After importing, sandwich all the layers together, hide all but the bottom one, then one by one, bring out the area of the scene you …

I’ve always loved shooting florals. (interesting, because flowers have this kind of relation to things “girly” and I try to think of myself as anything but.) Anyway, Gerbera daisies are one of my favorites and I found some nice ones at Wegman’s yesterday. So here are some “petal portraits.” I just took them outside, in …

What the hell happened to summer? Seriously. Fall is lovely. It really is beautiful with all the colors, but sometimes I kind of see it like being really drunk, it can feel/look great, but then you wake up to the hangover which is winter. Ok sorry for that. Remember this is coming from someone who …

I know, I haven’t posted for like a week. I do feel bad about it. I’ve been spending all my time editing last weekend’s portrait shoot. I found I had a really great problem. I took about 250 images, and they all looked good! This is a very good thing, however my “narrowing down” process …

I have to say, I really bonded with my flash yesterday. After several months of frustration, bad pictures and wtf moments, I opened my camera bag and said (or thought) That’s it, you’re not goin back until we make a decent photo. My subject was bad, not the most cooperative or lovely flowers in the …

This is really neat. I discovered how to use a great flickr feature that takes a set of images and creates a nice embeddable slideshow. (using FlickrSlidr) This is the set of photos taken during the pre-conference Napp Photo Safari before photoshop world. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

At the tech expo at Photoshop World I was looking at a booth for something totally unrelated to bags. But… I’m a bag junkie and the dude at the counter probably noticed me passionately eyeing up the bag rack. Now I hate when people try to sell me things, but half-way through this guy’s spiel …

One of they days at photoshop world I got back to my room at night, but I was just so inspired to take pictures that I started snapping around my room. I just wanted my camera in my hands, and the rooms were full of nice pretty things. So this is what I came up …