DPC: Free Study (May 2009)

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DPC: Darkness 2

black strings mix

DPC: Free Study (April 2009)

Steps

DPC: Free Study (March, 2009)

Rites of Spring

We took Jason to a farm museum in one of the northern suburbs of Chicago. It didn't have much more to offer than the farm section of the Lincoln Park Zoo, but since we were already in the area it wasn't so bad.

Jason didn't fall off the swing, in case you were wondering.

Doctors!

There's something screwy here..

The family got a G10 camera for me for a birthday present, so I would have a camera that could keep up with the boy when we're out and about. It is much more portable than the 5D, and does an adequate job with the little lens it has. I like it! Now if only I could find a small camera bag for it..

DPC: Grey

dismal winter skies

One of my few entries not to get any comments during the voting week.

DPC: January Free Study

windmill

DPC: A Single Tree 2

Alone at the End

I found this stump during our second trip to the Arboretum. Finding a "single" tree there, other than something like this, just wasn't going to happen.

Morton Arboretum (Revisited)

We had so much fun hiking around last weekend we went back for more. It was colder this time, but that didn't deter us from hiking around in the snow.

Morton Arboretum

DPC: Bokeh 5

Typo

Sonya gave me the title for this shot (my first take was "one letter off"). The color is a little flat; the ambient light was filtered through heavy clouds, and I was trying to get the snow exposed correctly.

Gnome Trains!

Well, not really Gnome trains, but both trains and gnomes were on display at the Morton Arboretum. We took Jason primarily to see their train setup, but we had more fun trying to find all of the hidden gnomes around the park. Our recent warm weather melted most of the snow, making this kind of scavenger hunt more enjoyable.

DPC: Free Study (November)

Patriarch

My grandpa, on Thanksgiving. This shot didn't score well in the "Free Study" challenge, but I thought I got the effect I was aiming for. Click on the image to see my notes on how I set up the lighting for this one.

Noodles

Last night I did a product shot for a parent of another child at Jason's school. It's really my first "commercial" shoot, and I got noodles and sauce (and photography credit) in exchange.

The company is Aldente Pasta, located up in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

I set up my DIY backdrop (a sheet on a PVC frame held with clamps) on the kitchen table, added a couple lamps to even out the light, and tried to remember all the techniques I learned through DPC and the CDP meetup classes. I was hoping to shoot with my camera tethered to my laptop, but I didn't have the right cable for that.

DPC: Free Study (September)

Lakeside Parking

I took this shot from outside the Chicago Field Museum last month while I was on my way to the planetarium for the fireworks show.

City of Inspiration

Fall Fireworks at Navy Pier


Looking north from Roosevelt St bridge

Photographic inspiration, that is. While the family is away, I've been able to head downtown a couple nights with my camera and have fun being a photographer. I have some of my better images in my DPC portfolio, here and here. I got myself signed up for a portrait class taught through the Chicago Digital Photography meetup.com group, which I'm excited about.

Floods in Iowa

If you lived there, you'd remember last month some severe flooding in the midwest. Last weekend we visited my Grandpa in northeast Iowa, and we didn't have to travel very far to see some spectacular flood damage: ruined fields, collapsed bridges, washed out roads.. I got a few pictures.











These pictures, and a few more, are also up on my DPC portfolio.

DPC: Urban Landscape 3

Financial Giants

See, I told you I'd have a better picture to show tonight. This is looking up from Adams St, and yes, that's the Sears Tower on the left. I don't know what the building on the right is called.

DPC: Free Study (June)

Martian Flora

This was a poor shot of a glass bowl at the Museum of Science and Industry's Glass exhibit. Tomorrow I'll post a better entry, I promise.

DPC: Free Study (May)

Fallen

For the first time on DPC I got two entries in a row that scored over 6! This didn't do as well as Death below, but still finished in the upper 17%.