So I had on my calendar that there was going to be a full moon early this week… I took some pictures of a sunset the night of in preparation. I’m standing outside and I see the moon peeking out from behind some clouds so I got a couple of pictures, that was the last I saw of the moon that night as the rain kicked in and the sky was completely covered. The next night was more of the same. Very disappointing.

This morning I was letting the dogs out and I saw the moon hanging there… I went and grabbed my camera and caught a “mostly” full moon. heh

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We recently took a trip to St. Louis, Missouri to visit my wife’s family. On one of the days we spent some time at the Transportation Museum Association… I got to spend some time with professional photographer, Tom Rollins. We talked about techniques and he was kind of enough to loan me a few of his lenses. It was a great time. Here are my favorite shots from the trip.

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Our screened in porch tends to be a stop-over for quite the variety of insects.. the other day we had our first dragonfly visitor. Before we did the usual catch and release, I wanted to snap a couple of pictures so the boys could check out the bugs a bit closer up later. There’s a contest running on one of my favorite photography forums that I think it will qualify for too, so I’m pretty darn pleased with the whole series.

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Ok, so I got started tinkering with the last stuff and I couldn’t help looking at my new Photoshop Auto Tilt-shift Action. Whee! I didn’t have much quality material for tilt-shifting, but now that I know what kind of pictures work best I think I’ll keep my eye out for opportunities to take them. I put the original photo in with these as well so you can really see the difference.

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I’ve been wanting to get out and some more experimenting… specifically with HDR (High Dynamic Range) and Panoramas. My photo appointment got rescheduled so I took that opportunity to go take some photos next to where my old house used to be. There was a real lack of clouds in the sky so the HDR photos didn’t come out as dramatic as I wanted them too, but it was fun doing the process.

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Brought the camera into campus today to take along to our lunch at The Elbow Room, which was delicious. Being right in the heart of downtown it presented an opportunity to get some nice building shots. Later when I got home we headed to the park and I got some good ones there as well.

Downtown Buildings

Kids at the Park

My faithful model (Carson) and I stopped in to the Indianapolis Museum of Art to soak in some late afternoon sun and to explore some of the sights. The numbers were very fun to play around. Spring was definitely on display throughout the grounds.
Here’s my top three faves:

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LOVE

Did a couple of other different things today; Plant close-ups and some sunset shots in the country.

Took some shots at lunch time of some signs of Spring around the IUPUI Campus:

Plants

On the way home from dinner I took some back roads and notice the sun painting a great scene across the open cornfields, so I stopped to snap some shots.

Country Sunset