South Brandon Little League

I have been out shooting a lot of little league games again this year. There is something about youth sports that I really enjoy shooting. Mainly the younger kids, there just seems to be an innocents there, they just enjoy the game for fun... it's just that to them still, a game.

You can see some of the images from those games on my flickr page or on the Backprint Gallery I am using to sell images. I used to post images to a different gallery site to sell, but a couple of friends / local photographers Jim Sykes and Donna Cuic told me about Backprint.

If you have a moment, take a hop over to my flickr site and view the images, even better, leave a comment if you see something you like!

Computer Blues...

I tend to use my computers until I have literally killed them. Upon getting back home from Ohio, I apparently did just that to my wonderful Dell. Not that I am complaining, the thing was going on 6 years old after all.

My wife doesn't understand these things as well, unfortunately. Her first comment was "what's wrong with your computer that wasn't wrong with it before we left for vacation?", which I couldn't answer at first. But thanks to Dell's web site and the indicator lights they have for errors, I found out that my ram wasn't being recognized... an easy fix IF Dell hadn't chosen to put RAMBUS memory in their computers back when I bought this one.

After diagnosing the problem and not getting the computer to boot at all, I checked some prices on ram from my laptop... I then immediately called a friend to find out how much it would cost to build a new computer. Yes, for the just a little more than the RAMBUS would have cost, I have a brand new Core2duo PC that screams.

More importantly, my wife has a new 19" LCD instead of the old 17" CRT she was using, so she is happy too! :^)

Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a safe and happy new year.

Stay warm and for all those college football fans out there, enjoy the upcoming bowl games!

I am still in VERY cold Ohio and on my way out to shoot some photos of the area around my wife's parents house. On the slate today are an 1800s Quaker Cemetery, an old covered bridge and a heavy equipment "museum" of sorts.

I am not sure how they classify it as a museum, as it is just a whole lot of old heavy equipment, mining and farm equipment in an open field, but it is all neat stuff none-the-less.

Merry Christmas....

Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or what ever you decide to celebrate during your holiday time.

We are in cold, gloomy Ohio visiting family and friends. You couldn't ask for a better way to spend the holidays!

Until next time, stay safe stay warm and enjoy the holidays.

Kerby's Nursery

As most people know, some photographers are a little weird, but also very resourceful. If you don't believe that, just check out the Strobist web blog and see the things photographers come up with.

Well, on Black Friday, while the masses were swarming the malls and other retail stores the Brandon Photography Club made arrangements with Kerby's Nursery to allow us to use their business for our group macro shoot.

While I love Kerby's for their knowledge and great selection of landscape items they offer, they were even more gracious in letting us shoot there. We were told to move any of their displays around as we needed, use their hoses to wet down any of the plants, you name it and they were accommodating!

To see a few of the images I was able to get while there, please click here. While I am new to macro photography, I think I came away with a few keepers!

Brandon Photography Club

The first Tuesday night of every month brings our club meetings and this one was especially exciting. Tonight we had featured presenter Blake Shadle of Wild Florida Photography.

Blake, accompanied by his wife, dad James and a couple friends, showed us a slide show of the images he takes throughout the Tampa Bay area. He shared his tips on taking photos like he was presenting and gave us some of his secrets on capturing the perfect photo.

Check out their web site at the link above and if you are interested, check out taking a workshop with them.

iStockphoto...

After a long debate and a lot of research, reading and indecision I made the leap and signed up to become a contributor with iStockphoto.com and was accepted. I have submitted three images and two of those were selected for my portfolio.

I am hoping to go through some of my older photos and start shooting a lot of new stuff to add to my portfolio soon.

Please check out my iStockphoto images and if you know anyone needing to buy some stock photography for an upcoming project, point them my way!