This is an HDR photo I took on San Juan Island in Washington state.
05-12-12 My Favorite LATI Graduates
in people
From left to right, top to bottom, you are looking at Danine, Lexi, Sara, Kendra, Kaila, McKenzie, Ashley, Holly and Kelly. The were all students in our Photo/Media program at Lake Area Technical Institute. And, if you'll forgive me for saying it, they were my favorite nine graduates walking across the stage yesterday.Click here if you want to see more from the Lake Area Technical Institute graduation ceremony.
05-11-12 Pomp & Circumstance
in people
Having marched in, the Lake Area Technical Institute class of 2012 wait for the ceremony to begin.Canon 5DII 1/60s f/2.8 ISO1000 200mm
05-10-12 Singled Out
in Nature
05-09-12 Belgian Delicacies
in Travel
I'm not sure if lust makes the list of mortal or deadly sins. And I'm not sure that having a profound desire for real whipped cream and fresh cherries piled on top of a freshly cooked waffle right now constitutes lust. I suppose I could look all of this up but I don't want to know the answer.This delicious breakfast was served in a small cafe in the beautiful city of Brugge, Belgium. Deb and I were there a few years ago and I found this photo as I was working on cleaning up old, unnecessary things on my computer. But Belgian waffles are necessary and so is the photo.But, alas, my breakfast of oatmeal and skim milk is calling me. That's what I have almost every morning when I am home. Fidelity, of course, is no sin. It is a virtue. . . .Canon 5DII 1/200s f/2.5 ISO500 50mm (Canon 50mm 1.2L)
05-08-12 Picture-In-Picture
in people
I took this at Evie D's baptism back in February. I don't really have much else to say about it, though I suppose it is an example of how photographer's try to see and capture things that other people wouldn't.
05-07-12 Thick Frost
in South Dakota
I took this back in February and, no, I am not feeling nostalgic for winter. Incidentally, the tree in this post is the same tree in this one. Thanks to the bees, the flowers become little apples.
05-06-12 Warped Reality
in Nature
If this is too abstract, I'll tell you what you are seeing. These are water drops on the window that I look through when I am sitting at my computer. It was raining on Saturday and I was captivated by the look of the rain. I took several photos that focused on the rain drops but this photo is focused on the lens effect of the water drops.And, through the lens of the rain drops, you can see the mesh of the screen on the window and the grass and trees in our back yard. But it is all upside down because that's what lenses do. In fact, the lens of our eye turns the world upside down and then our brain turns it right side up again. The human body is a weird machine.Click here to see another version of the same subject with a different point of focus.
05-05-12 Sunken Garden
in Architecture, iPhone
Here's another quick shot taken with my iPhone and processed with Instagram. The location is the sunken garden at the Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota.
05-04-12 Conservatory
in Architecture, iPhone
In an Instagram photo a "real" photo? Of course. This is a quick shot I took of the Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota, while waiting for my photo students to finish their own photographic enterprises.Here's another "real" photo, taken by one of my second year LATI Photo/Media students, Kelly Ortmeier.
05-03-12 Desi
Every once and a while I discover a photo I'd forgotten I had taken. Such is the case with today's portrait of Desi. This photo was taken in 2002, when I knew very little about portraiture and digital photography.What I did know was that the secret to good photography was good light. In this case, there is some ambient light in the old farm house we are in. But I was also using a Canon strobe light and a white shoot-through umbrella to my right. The beauty of this lighting set-up was that if I used aperture priority with my Canon flash, my Canon camera would meter the flash just right. It provided wonderful light that looked like window light. You wouldn't necessarily know that this is an example of flash photography. (I checked the metadata, and, if you look at the catchlight's in Desi's eyes, you can see the umbrella.)Canon 1D 1/160s f/1.8 ISO320 50mm Scott Shephard
05-01-12 May Flowers
in Nature
To set the record straight, calla lilies are not normal "May flowers" in South Dakota. These flowers were growing in the planter outside my aunt Betty's California home. They were planted by a neighbor as a gift to and remembrance of the memory of Betty. They are as nice a tribute as any, if you ask me.