Late night Bemidji

A lot of time when the bar scene is a bust I like to wander the streets and see what kinds of images I can come up with. Most of the time I don't get much but every now and then I get a couple of keepers.

 Sometimes the shadows are more interesting then the subjects casting them. Shot with a 28mm.

I really like the leading lines in this one, shot with a 70-200mm @ the 200mm end. Both images were shot with my D800 and processed in Adobe Lightroom.

Another time lapse

I had noticed that the pepper plants in our greenhouse perked up pretty quick once they were watered after missing a few days and thought it would make a great time lapse video kind of like the ones you see on nature shows.  When I saw they were looking rough today I gave the time lapse a try setting the camera to shoot one image every forty seconds for eight hours and this is what I got. It was very interesting to see how much they fluctuated throughout the day.

Walking the dog

I was walking around town the other night after a shoot looking for something to shoot. When the light is good I like to keep shooting as long as possible and a lot of times that means just roaming town looking at where light is falling. I love the lines in this image, all the leading lines in the wall and the sidewalk intersecting with the shadows. I did several shots of this scene but only got one with the guy walking his dog which adds a get element to the image. 

Friday at the Blue Ox

The past Labor Day weekend there were a lot of great bands playing down at the Blue Ox in Bemidji and one of those was this woman, Sarah Krueger out of Duluth so if you get a chance to catch her act I would highly recommend it.  I shot this with my D800 (the ISO cranked to 3200) and a 70-200 wide open at 2.8 

A few more from the Smokies

These are a few images from a mountain community that the US government bought when they established the pt park. Shot with a Nikon P7000 and processed in Adobe Lightroom.

Jenna

Over the years I had shot a lot of images with Jenna, she was always willing to at least hear out my wilder ideas. But while I was in Los Angeles she graduated and moved off to Atlanta so I hadn't seen her in a while. Recently though she made a trip home to visit her family before moving to Scotland for school. So we took advantage of a few hours and shot some photos. This image was done with a 28mm at f8 as well as a Quadra flash camera right fired through a 39" octabox with the front diffusion panel removed. 

More with Ashleigh

When I shot with Ashleigh the other day it was actually to do some yoga photos so here is one of those. I had a VAL holding a beauty dish camera left and shot it with my D800 and a 70-200mm.