Office Peeps provided the furniture and the designers of the Student Center at Lake Area Technical Institute provided the rest.
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03-20-14 Cabin In the Woods On A Snowy Day (HDR)
in Architecture, Black Hills, HDR, Blog
A March snow storm in the Black Hills provides a picture perfect covering for houses and trees.
Read More03-19-14 Prairie Skyscraper (HDR)
in Blog, Architecture, HDR, Landscape, South Dakota
The stark, white Farmer's Elevator Company grain elevator in Miranda, SD, can be for miles in every direction.
Read More03-18-14 The Great Wide Open (HDR)
in Blog, HDR, Landscape, Nature, South Dakota
There is something about blue skies, puffy clouds and a cluster of distant trees that makes me pull over and get my camera and tripod out.
Read More03-17-14 Relic
in South Dakota
Scattered throughout parts of western South Dakota nuclear missiles waited quietly for their launch instructions.
Read More03-16-14 Bucolic
in HDR, Landscape, South Dakota
Tiny cattle inhabit a bucolic western South Dakota river valley.
Read More2014 03-15 Ankle Deep by Watertown, South Dakota, photographer Scott Shephard
03-15-14 Knee Deep
in Blog, Landscape, Seasons, South Dakota
Withered sunflowers wait for the winter ice to melt.
Read More03-14-14 Beyond Wasta, SD
in Blog, HDR, Landscape, South Dakota
What do you find when you turn north off of the interstate at Wasta, SD?
Read More03-09-14 A Return To the Beginning (HDR)
in Black Hills, Blog, HDR, Landscape
As with so much I photography, I have been here before. But I'm seeing a slightly different world. . .
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03-04-14 Sleeping On the Job →
in Architecture, Blog, HDR, people, Portrait
I'm not sleeping now and I'm not really sleeping in the photo, either. I was at Lake Area Technical Institute working on a project for Office Peeps, a local office solutions retailer, and decided it might be a good time to get a self portrait. Also, I was using Camranger to remotely control my camera so it was convenient to get myself in a photo. (If you look closely at the iPad on the floor, you will see the same photo you see here because I can get a live view on my IOS device with Camranger.)
For those who are regular readers of my blog, you might see the humor in the title, given that my last post for "A Photo A Day" was on the 17th of February. Have I been sleeping too much? No. Have I been traveling? No. Did my wireless connection quit? No. Do I have a good excuse. Maybe.
I have been working on projects and, significantly, I have been working on a new web site, which you are apparently looking at right now. Thanks for visiting. (How about subscribing to new posts on both my "Learn" and "A Photo A Day" pages here at Scott Shephard Photography? Just fill in the little box on the right.)
Will "A Photo A Day" as you know it disappear? No doubt. When? There is much doubt.
And, yes, four external links is way too much for the average viewer. But you're better than average, aren't you? Check out some of the LATI Office Peeps project photos here.
2024 02-17 Upon This Rock (Reprise)
02-17-14 Upon This Rock . . . (Reprise)
This is a photo looking up at the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. When I returned to the US and opened it on my computer, I remember how impressed I was the quality of the image given than I was pushing my luck when I took it. I had no tripod, the shutter speed was 1/40 second, the lens was at it maximum aperture of 4.0 and the ISO was 1000. All of those factors were "wrong" for good architectural photography. But I had the relatively new Canon 5D, which was revolutionizing the world of digital photography.
This photo, incidentally, is the second in my "Anniversary Series," in which I pay tribute to photos that have already been posted to this blog.
Canon 5D 1/40s f/4.0 ISO1000 17mm
Early Morning With Wandering Star
02-16-14 Early Morning With Wandering Star (Reprise)
in Blog, Blog, South Dakota, South Dakota
You may not know it but this blog is approaching its fifth anniversary. I started it in February, 2009, thinking that it would be good for me to find and post one decent photo a day. Some of you may have noticed that I am celebrating the approaching anniversary by taking several days off this month. It's not willful. I am just fighting my way through the midwinter blues by being neglectful.
Today's post isn't new to this blog but I've decided to post some of my favorites from the past five years this week. This particular photo of our sailboat Wandering Star anchored Mediterranean style in Mission Creek on Lake Oahe may well be one of those photos that has more meaning and value to me than it does to anyone else. But, to paraphrase a hit song from decades ago, "it's my blog and I'll post if I want to." :-)
Ice still covers lake Oahe, but it won't be long now . . . .