Last week, after a storm had passed through the area, I looked out the window right at sunset and caught sight of the clouds glowing bright. I ran upstairs, grabbed my camera, ran out of the room, realized there was no memory card in the camera (d’oh!), ran back in, got one, and ran back out. I only had about 5 minutes before the sun finally disappeared.

Five minutes was all it took.

Our oldest daughter’s ninth birthday was supposed to be last Saturday. We got some flowers as a centerpiece for the table. Then she got sick, and we had to postpone the party a couple weeks.

Oh well. The flowers are still pretty. =]

ISO 400, 1/125s, f2.5, 50mm

Found down a random alley while out getting food. I almost walked right past it. But then I backed up and took a picture.

The end.

because real writers never get to be rock stars.

From a photowalk around Manhattan.

I did a little photowalking around Manhattan yesterday. All I had was my older Rebel XT and my new 100mm macro. I’ll be posting a few more over the next couple of days.

Ain’t it a sweet thing?

An image from a recent session with this amazing couple. He deployed last week to Iraq.

Godspeed your return, Jay.

…we were busy.

Happy Birthday, little one!

Last week, we traveled to California to visit family and spent a few days at Disneyland. Our hotel room looked out over Disney’s California Adventure park, right towards their little mountain shaped like a bear.

Early one morning, our hotel stay earned us a chance to get into Disneyland an hour before the general public, so we were up with the sun. Right before we headed out, I stepped out on the balcony and shot this.

In other news, I recently changed my blog theme! If you’re a regular visitor, you might have already noticed that there’s a background color now instead of just plain white. Yay for color! Also, down at the bottom I now have room for a couple of widgets. Hooray for widgets! So now, you can subscribe to my blog via email so that you’ll always know when I’ve published new content. You can also find my latest tweets from my Twitter feed (come follow me!) and a cloud of my most frequently used keywords.

If there’s something else you can think of that should be down in my (very limited) widget bar, hit me up in the comment section below!

(And now, with this new theme, you can find the same EXIF information I used to post here automagically posted over on the left. Sweet!)

At the end of a recent session with a senior girl from Wamego High, we were under the overpass of a local highway bridge. I looked behind me as we were finishing up and getting ready to leave and found a lovely little clump of tall grass poking out over the river below us. I simply had to stay and shoot it.

ISO 100, 1/2000s, f2.8, 75mm