Happy Spring!


Tulip1

i just joined a group of local photographers, the "louisville photography collective," if you're interested, you can view my page here. the group is all locals that run the gamut from beginner to hobbiest to amateur to pro, from commercial to wedding to art. a little bit of everything.

i've been thinking of joining for a while but didn't know how my work would match up. so last night, i kind of said "screw it" and just went thru my files and put up some random stuff. there is some beautiful work posted there, the best thing is it's kind of inspired & motivated me to get off my ass and get out there and see what i can do.

Happy Spring indeed! My favorite use of a camera is Spring.

looks great, bill. good for you!

it's a tough decision to join those types of things... folks can be brutal and get so caught up in all of the technical talk. blah blah.


and bruce... pretty pictures. that's where our hometown boy dave was married! beautiful place.

I've got a story behind this photo... I'll be sharing soon.

Thanks, K. It was cold and cloudy this weekend, but it was nice picture takin' weather.

Good on you, Bill. Great shots that you've shared. You've got my vote as being talented enough to join and show. We don't have anything local, but I belong to a Kodak online site that has monthly challenges, etc. which keep me motivated as well.

Bruce ... great spring photos. I love, love, love the flowering pears, but they do stink!

Kylie, looking forward to hearing your story.

Cher

Peeking

Ode On a Grecian Urn

Thanks for looking!

so many lovely shots! I love this thread!

here are some I took recently.


stormy spring


phlox blossoms


strawberry blossoms

Thanks for sharing the pics everyone. They are always so nice.
Tulips and spring flowers!
I love all the spring ones, with real green- no brown. We're still a month away from all that, hopefully less,
as we finally got rid of all the snow the past few days. Can't wait for flowers.

Lovely shots, beforesunrise!

Narcissus
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Thanks for looking!

Cher

=)



I found this photo I took years ago. fiddled with it in photoshop and decided it looked postcardish.

(edited to change the border)

from a little stroll thru the park w/lilly tonight...

great stuff, sunrise.
cher, i like the flowers...

bill... i loooove tree pictures.

Oh Happy Spring indeed.

i went out and played with my camera tonite...











i've been wanting to play around w/some long exposure (these are in the 4-6 sec range) plus it rained earlier tonight and i thought it would be cool to catch the reflections.

Really nice ones, Bill!

A few from a rainy Saturday:


Husband2
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Sept. 9th
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Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode


Wife Of
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Wow, Bill. Those are great!

*experiencing a longing to whip out my trusty film SLR sometime*

Taken on a rainy Saturday afternoon from the road above this flooded creek and inside the Blazer as I didn't want to expose the DSLR to the rain.



Thanks for looking!

Cher

I have not been on much here lately and it has been some time since I last posted up some pics--I just got back from a week long swing through the SE--spending some time in the Savannah area and down in Central Florida--here are a few highlight photos:

Some shots of El Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida





A boat at anchor just off the fort in the intracoastal waterway in St. Augustine



Some shots at north St. Augustine Beach







Sunset in the Smokeys in the Asheville, NC area:




Some items in the courtyard of a neat little gift shop in Mt. Dora, Fla.

More scenes from the Deep South:

River Street Savannah, Georgia:











Forsyth Park Fountain





Horse Drawn tourist carriage



Some Savannah homes







The horses at work



One of the many Spanish Moss draped Live Oak trees found on the squares of Savannah

Some Florida wildlife seen while taking a tour boat on Lake Dora and going through the Dora Canal to Lake Eustis--this area of Florida is about an hour to the northwest of Orlando

Departing the dock at Mt. Dora



In the canal



Bald Cypress trees and their "knees" from which they breathe



An adult American Bald Eagle parent guarding its nest



Getting some sun







Some more shots in Mt Dora











I hope that everyone likes what I have posted up here tonight----everyone sure has been posting some incredible photos lately!!! Keep up the great work!!!

Some more scenes from St. Augustine:

What a GREAT series of photos. Thanks for the tour!!

Cher

Moon4, sepia

Thanks for looking!

Cher

Thanks Cher----you have been taking some great photos lately--and I like the sepia moon!!

driving through indiana today...





flags on a red barn (outside of bloomington)







the tivoli ("downtown" spencer)



downtown terre haute

Great shots Bill--I love to take photos of places like those too--it looks like the Tivoli Theater has seen better and brighter days--I love old buildings of that type and I am always kinda sad to see that so many bulidings like that have fallen on hard times----I guess I am a bit nostalgic in that way---I wish that in the case of old places like that---"The Walls Could Talk"--I bet there would be some great stories to tell---I am sure there was a time that the Tivoli was a hoppin' place---like around the time of WWII---young men in their new uniforms heading out for war in Europe or the Pacific--some came back and some didn't---on a last date with their sweathearts---and for those who came back---a nice homecoming.

On the last cut of the first disc of Lyle Lovett's "Step Inside this House" where he did covers of those artists that served as friends and mentors in his musical career---is a song called "Rolling By"-I believe it was a Townes Van Zandt song----the song is about a town in Texas that was once vibrant and full of people that gets by-passed now thanks to the interstate.

It is kind of amazing to me as I take trips around the countryside at how many places there are in the country that are like that----like I said--they are kinda sad but they do make for some great photograhpic subjects.

Here is one theater from the era I bet the Tivoli came from that is still in good use--it's the Athens Theater in Deland, Florida:

Bill,

Those pictures have very wonderful and vivid colors!

Wow, Bill, stellar shots as usual!! May I ask what those last 3 are besides incredible?

War Is Hell

Thanks, for looking!

Cher

thanks cher.

the top two are "st francis of assisi" here in louisville. i was driving down bardstown rd, i came around a corner and was almost blinded by the sun. as i looked ahead and the angle changed, this is exactly what i saw. i slammed on my brakes, pulled onto a side road jumped out of my car and grabbed my camera, metered, set and snapped these two pics before the sun dropped lower.

the last one is a church in terre haute. i was stuck @ a train crossing, looked out the window and saw the (wispy jet) contrail over the church, grapped my camera and got off this one shot off before it passed. i didn't even notice the bird on the left cross or that there is a little bit of detail on the one on the right until i posted it here. both fortunate accidents.

as i've said before...it's better to be lucky than good.

I often laugh and say basically the same thing, "I love happy accidents."

You know, for me, it's often a gut thing. I just know it works for me. Maybe not for anyone or everyone else, but for me. It feels right. And I know about getting out and getting that 1 or 2 shot(s) off before losing the light. I never realized just how quickly the sun & moon rises/sets until I began photographing them in earnest. Amazing.

Anyway, the thing I like best about getting 'into' photography is just how it has made me look at the world around me. Incredible.

Thanks again for sharing. Your photos always make me think and often smile.

Cher

Race

Some photos from a Barak Obama campaign rally that took place before the Ohio pirmary at the EJ Nutter Center at Wright State University in Dayton

I just joined a new group on Flickr called Bokeh: Smooth & Silky (Pool). Bokeh is simply the softly blurred background or foreground found behind or in front of an in-focus main subject. Here's an example:


Pink Dogwood Bokeh

Thanks for looking!

Cher

a couple from the trip to yellow springs...

Thanks for posting on this Cher---I did not know there was a technical term to describe this technique---I like to play around with doing this--I will have to check out the website.

I think this has got to be my fave photo to date! Talk about perfect timing.


Jubilation
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Neon Poster
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This was an interesting thing that happened last summer at my lake cottage--I had gotten both parts of an old neon light working and the light apparently attracted the moth to light on the screen for many hours.

I took the photos in this post on a little spring Sunday afternoon roadtrip I took in my area yesterday. It was a glorious spring day.

The first photo was taken in Warren County:



I have decided that as I go up and down the highways and bi-ways of the land--when at all possible--I am going to stop and take photos of signs and other things people have put up of a religious nature. I have been thinking of doing so for a few months since I leafed through one of those nice photo collection books I had found one day at Joseph-Beth which was a collection of such photos. When I was on my recent trip down south and took a number of non-interstate roads---I saw many such scenes that would have made great photos--but if I had stopped for them--I would never have made it home!

The rest of these photos were taken in the small, quaint, quiet, picturesque Ohio River town of New Richmond, Ohio and the final two photos were taken near downtown Cincinnati.

From the park Saturday:


Thoughtful
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Ok... have a few pics posted. These pics were taken with my newly acquired Yaschica-D 120 camera.

I'm loving this camera. Long live film!!

Tracks Series

Tina - those are GREAT!! I think you mentioned when you 1st got the camera (and I'm guessing it's what the number stands for) that it uses 120 film. Do you do your own processing? And, if you haven't checked, Amazon.com is a good place to find deals on large quantities of it. I've never looked for it on Ebay. I have a couple of Holgas (one flash - one non-flash) that I need to get out and play with some more). Of course, I may be wrong, and it's not a 120 film cam at all.

Anyway, you've got really good stuff here.

Cher

cher, yes it's a 120mm format camera, shoots 2 1/4" square images (negatives).