Mizutamari
Finally, the weather’s starting to get nice and warming up. Snow’s melting, sun is shining, and the sky is blue, blue, blue. With that in mind, escaped from the house to get a little exercise, and took the camera with just in case. Good thing I did as this caught my eye while mid-stroll. Since [...]
Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh
Due to the beautiful weather today, packed the wife and Ape up and went to the Phipps Conservatory in downtown Pittsburgh. It’s the first time we’ve ever been there and I have to say, it’s a wonderful attraction and worth the time to go and visit. Of course, I took a camera with to document [...]
Hello Dolly
Had to shoot a doll tonight I’m putting up for sale on eBay. Usually, I just take a well-lit snap and do nothing special, but tonight I thought I’d light it like a fashion shoot just for fun. I basically did a high-key white background ala Zack Arias’ tutorial, but on a much scaled down [...]
Rolaroid
Spent some time at the local fun center today. Thought these skates would make some interesting photos due to the fairly graphic way they’re lined up in their storage racks. Usually, the place is crawling with people and shots like these never present themselves, but today it was dead, so I had free reign.
Sleddin’!
Trying to play catch-up w/ my pics here today! These are from a sleddin’ outing a few days back when the weather was nice and clear. Took the D200 with to try and get some decent action shots. Did pretty well in general, and got more than a few keepers. Here’s my batch of faves [...]
Hisashiburi
Went with the family out to Mill Creek Sate Park in Youngstown, OH yesterday to kill some time and get some fresh air. Beautiful day, but the light wasn’t so good for pics. Just the same though, took some snaps w/ the E-420 as the scenery was still quite pretty. Anyway, here’s some of my [...]
Framework
Was out with the family today at the local mall. The weather here has been terrible, so in order to get the Ape some much needed playtime, we took him there to play in their kiddie kingdom. Took the D3 to try and get some action shots like usual, but there were so few kids [...]
The Big Scoop
Ever run across an object that just screamed to have its picture taken?
Went with the wife and Ape to the new Market District store this past Saturday in Pittsburgh. We were coming back from a meeting for her church group and wanted to get something to eat. Being that we wanted to check it out [...]
Sodafone
OK, so if you’ve only ever lived in the U.S. then maybe the title pun won’t make any sense, but that’s fine, all will be made clear soon enough.
Had to go out to return some computer memory that was supposed to work, but didn’t (thx PNY), and snapped some cellpics along the way for fun. [...]
Shiro
I hate snow. Really hate snow. Hate having to dig for my car. At least I can take picture and enjoy that.
Reflections
Just a quick one tonight – a recent pic I liked from time spent with the family. Noticed this while waiting for our chow to arrive at a local restaurant and took a snap.
Sunday Mornin’
What to do when you’re up early for no reason and can’t get back to sleep? Tried music. Tried games. Tried the internet for a while. No good, any of it. I did however, run into this photographer’s site, Allison V. Smith Photography. Some of her stuff I like very much, and some of it [...]
Spare Time
Spent some time off with the family this week. Never got much of a chance to take time off over the recent holidays, and feeling stressed, decided to take a break this week and just kick back. Didn’t get a chance to do much shooting as the weather mostly sucked, but we did take a [...]
Nostalgica
Here’s hoping everybody had a good Christmas. I know we did, although it was a bit exhausting, what with visiting family and playing with the Ape. Our house is interesting in that we celebrate Christmas, but only one of us is Christian, my wife being Bhuddist. Japanese celebrate Christmas regularly same as in the U.S., [...]
Santy Claus
Just finished packing up to take Santa Claus pictures tomorrow for the city. It should be a good time, and hopefully a lot of people will come for the pictures. It’s the first year for New Castle to have Santa Claus come for a visit, which I think is a great thing as it gives [...]
The Family That Rots Together . . .
I like rotten Jack ‘o Lanterns. There, I said it. It gives them real character, and the more they rot the better I like them.
Last year’s was a fair piece of work as it had really good mold working all throughout that gave it a “Spotted Death” kinda feel that worked rather nicely. Unfortunately, it [...]
Mini Me
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while now, then you’ll know that earlier this year in May I bought a Canon G10 P&S camera to augment my DLSR’s for times when I didn’t want to haul out the big guns and just travel light. You know – parties, family outings/get-togethers, everyday pocket use, [...]
AoZakura
Was out at the park yesterday killing time with the family. Weather was gray and fairly dismal, though not rainy or anything (not until later at least). I took the camera with, but to be honest this time of year is a bit frustrating for shooting in some respects – no leaves, sky’s gray, trees [...]
Hump Day
Had this past Wednesday off. Nothing particularly stunning about that in itself as I have usually 2-3 a month off typically, but this week the weather was exceptionally nice and seeing that the Ape was driving us nuts at home, we decided to go to the local mall to help him blow off some energy. [...]
The Shape Of Things To Come
First personal post in my new home on the net tonight. While this site is mainly for my automotive and restoration work, I am in fact a real person with a life outside of my work. To not include a section that is simply about me, my family, my likes/dislikes, photography in general, and the [...]
Backcatalog
Just spent a little time playing catch-up on my backcatalog of recent photos. Had some from the first or second time we went to Mill Creek Park a month or so back, and out of those, these three caught my eye:
This first one is a downstream shot from Lanterman Falls, taken from the deck at [...]
I’m So Blue . . .
This is just a quicky for the evening. Had some time to kill yesterday with the family, so went out to the local park so the YardApe could burn off some energy stored up from nearly a week of rainy days. Took a camera with just in case as the weather was beautiful, though chilly. [...]
