Country Road

A good friend of mine and I went out to take sunset/full moon pictures the other night. We spent 2 hours driving around for a good vantage point to capture our subject but had no luck. On our way home, after giving up, we stumbled on this farmstead and cloud formation. Slamming on the breaks we got out of the car to set up our equipment. After taking a few images I set my exposure for 30 seconds and had my friend drive my car down the road. This gave the cool ghost line going through the image. I hope you all enjoy the image.

Rosenblat

So it is that time of year again. That time where talk of the College World Series is a buzz throughout Omaha. It is the first year that the games will be held at Ameritrade Park. I can't help but think about how they use to be held at Rosenblat Stadium. To me it will never be the same now that the Series has been moved away from this classic place. Here is a picture from the last game I attended at Rosenblat last year.

B&W Photography Magazine Merit Award

I just found out that a few of my images have been selected for publication in Black & White Photography Magazine. This is a national magazine that specializes in high end black & white photography. I was selected for a Merit Award for my insect photography. My work will be shown in issue 84 that will hit news stands in mid June or early July. Below I have included some of my insect images. These are not the ones that are in the magazine though. If you want to see those rush out to the news stand.

Hard Drive Adventures

The other night I was looking for a specific image I wanted to print out for a Mothers Day gift. I grabbed the hard drive the image was on and plugged it in. Well to my surprise I found that all the data on the hard drive was corrupted. Yup that is right, my hard drive and all my pictures on it were gone. The bummer was that this was the only back up I had for my Kansas trip I took last year. I was freaking out because there was two really great shoots from the trip that I did not want to loose. Well I was up to about 2 in the morning looking for the images. I eventually found them. These were the only two images I was able to find from the trip thought.

While I was looking frantically for these images I did find some other pictures I love that I have never done anything with. Since I have previously posted the Kansas pictures I decided to show you the other images I found. All these images are taken from rural Nebraska. The first is of Carhenge in Alliance. Next is of Courthouse and Jail Rock. The last image is of a misc country road outside of Papillion. Hope you enjoy.

Baby ELi

My youngest boy just turned 4 months and to mark this joyous occasion he took it upon himself to learn how to laugh. When I saw this I instantly grabbed my camera and started shooting. Though I did not get any good images of him laughing I did get some great smiles. There is something about a babies smile that brightens up your day :o)

Special Effects Fun

A few months ago I got the idea to do some fun special effects shots. Basically I wanted to combine people with elements (fire, water and air). This is an idea that I have had for several years but never forced myself to do until now. Here are the image I have come up with so far. I have a few more advanced concepts like these that I am itching to do in the future so keep an eye out.

Orta Lee Cameron

Recently I was given a few very old images of Orta Lee Cameron (better know as my Grandma) to restore. Looking at these images I started to think how interesting it is that we associate people only with our own personal experience with them. For instance with my Grandma I have always known her as the caring person who was always there to take care of me with a smile. She was always the one person I could run too if everything was falling apart. Whenever I visualize her in my head it is in my personal frame of reference though, a woman in her golden years of life. Never do I see here as (in physical form) as a different person. With looking at these images I am reminded that she was also a child not some much different from my children now. She was also a young woman about to experience love for the first time (with my Granddaddy). I am left thinking about the hundreds of other pictures of her that represent the history of my family. It is great that we have this media of photography that can capture not only an image but also one’s emotion and sense of being in time.

This all got me thinking, in the future how we will reflect on the past? Will we still have hard prints of images like the generation before us or will everything be digital. Will we be concerned with the older images or will they be forgotten and erased for the latest and greatest profile pictures. In the past people cherished family pictures because you only had a few and they usually were one of a kind. Now everything is digital and you can have hundreds of images at a click of the button. Does this devalue the images? Are pictures going to be less important to a family’s heritage? Time will tell. Me I still miss the days before digital where you had to work in the dark room for hours on one print. Man I’m getting old!!!