Photography

#PDL HQ (Week 5), originally uploaded by Greyhawk68.

This hotel was the launching pad of the outing known lovingly as Project Drunken Leprechaun (#pdl)

The reason I like the photo and included it as Week 5 is because I shot it handheld for 1 second and was able to steady it enough to get the detail in the hieroglyphics on the sign. Also having the shutter open that long brought out the cool looking clouds behind it.

So yeah, it’s a hotel sign, but I really dig the overall look. Hope you do too.

Our Sun (Week 4), originally uploaded by Greyhawk68.

Here is Professor Brian Cox (@profbriancox on Twitter) of the Large Hadron Collider project with a photograph of our sun behind him. His speech to close Lotusphere 2010 was awesome and it’s amazing how small and insignificant we really are in this whole universe.

Reflections (week 3), originally uploaded by Greyhawk68.

For my week three photo I decided to post one of my Lotusphere pictures. I liked the light and reflections in this one. I have many more coming once I have time to cull through them and “develop” them from RAW. Stay tuned!

solitude (week 2), originally uploaded by Greyhawk68.

Here’s my second week photo. I took this one and then started messing with the controls on it a bit in Lightroom and I really like how this turned out. It looks best when viewed large…

winterflower (week 1), originally uploaded by Greyhawk68.

In my resolutions I stated that I wanted to do more with my photography this year, and with that I’m going to try to do my 52Week project where I post one photo I’ve taken and produced every week. This is my one from last week, and I’ll post this weeks soon. Enjoy!

Lotusphere2009-93 (3/52), originally uploaded by Greyhawk68.

Well for my 52 Weeks project, I was going to be in Orlando for Lotusphere for Week three. I had planned on doing some nice HDR stuff, or maybe a long exposure of water at one of the fountains, but just never got around to it. So, I went through all the pictures I took at Lotusphere and tried to grab the best one.

I had some good candid portraits of Conductor Ben Zander ( http://www.benjaminzander.com ) and I had some artsy stuff of a set of lights, but I think this one is just perfect.

It captures him coming on stage, frames him with his background up on the screen and his piano. He has a great look on his face, and it captures the motion. So even though this isn’t the shot for the week I set out to challenge myself with, it’s the one I’m going with because I like it a lot.

Hope you do too. Now on to Week 4!