Life As I Know It

Wordless Wednesday

2010-04-27T21:11:00.001-05:00

Mmm...Waffles!

2010-03-11T10:35:00.001-06:00

From Best Shots

Wordless Wednesday

2010-03-03T06:36:00.000-06:00

From Best Shots

Cicada

2010-03-01T10:03:00.002-06:00

In color:

From Best Shots

In black and white:

From Best Shots

Wordless Wednesday

2010-02-22T21:59:00.001-06:00

Playing In The Snow

2010-02-18T09:55:00.002-06:00

Another picture from the record snow fall in north Texas. This is my son playing in the snow. The snow is very bright and maybe a little blown out, but I like the way this emphasizes my son at the center of the picture.

Snowy Fence

2010-02-16T09:45:00.002-06:00

Last Wednesday and Thursday we had a record snow fall here in north Texas. I took this across the street from my job as the snow was falling. It's hard to maneuver a camera and an umbrella at the same time.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-12-16T07:30:00.001-06:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-12-02T13:28:00.000-06:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-11-24T22:17:00.000-06:00

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2009-11-11T12:46:00.000-06:00

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2009-11-04T07:08:00.000-06:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-09-23T12:18:00.002-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-09-09T14:52:00.002-05:00

(I used a plugin in Gimp to convert this to black and white. It made part of his face darker than it should be. I will try running through again in the future to see if I can get better results.)

Wordless Wednesday

2009-09-02T07:21:00.000-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-08-26T07:12:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-08-12T07:19:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-08-04T22:01:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-07-29T07:12:00.000-05:00

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2009-07-22T07:26:00.000-05:00

Rock and Moon

2009-07-16T22:12:00.000-05:00

Okay, the title is kind of lame...

Wordless Wednesday

2009-07-15T07:03:00.000-05:00

Nick

2009-07-10T07:16:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-07-07T21:40:00.003-05:00

Boy

2009-06-18T08:55:00.001-05:00

Inspired by the cover of U2's Boy album.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-06-17T18:34:00.000-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-06-10T19:46:00.002-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-06-03T07:07:00.001-05:00

Simon

2009-06-01T06:20:00.001-05:00

Pink Erasers

2009-05-26T14:25:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-05-20T06:18:00.000-05:00

Town Lake Fountain At Night

2009-05-17T20:53:00.002-05:00

Nikon D40, F10, 200mm, Exposure: 105 seconds, 200 ISO

Wordless Wednesday

2009-05-13T06:22:00.000-05:00

Fine Arts

2009-05-11T21:23:00.000-05:00

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2009-05-06T16:44:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-04-29T15:25:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-04-21T21:00:00.001-05:00

See Food

2009-04-20T21:13:00.000-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-04-15T06:20:00.001-05:00

Let's Roll

2009-04-12T22:23:00.000-05:00

Air Fiddle

2009-04-09T17:28:00.001-05:00

Last circus picture, I promise.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-04-08T08:28:00.000-05:00

Elephant- Animal Covered In Elbow Skin?

2009-04-06T18:57:00.001-05:00

Pennybacker Bridge, Austin, Texas

2009-04-02T18:05:00.000-05:00

Something A Little Different

2009-03-26T21:17:00.001-05:00

My flash ran out of juice so I got a few pictures that were way to dark. I'll probably delete most of them but decided to play around with this one. What do you think?

I Heart New York

2009-03-26T11:30:00.001-05:00

Trade Days.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-03-24T21:08:00.001-05:00

Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home...

2009-03-22T21:27:00.001-05:00

Taken at the Dallas Arboretum this weekend.

Vertigo

2009-03-19T10:41:00.002-05:00

Should I edit out the glare? This is one of the few pictures I took of this tower that kind of gave me the sense of dizziness I had when I was there taking the pictures.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-03-18T06:13:00.001-05:00

Is one version better than the other?

Who Goes There

2009-03-16T06:36:00.001-05:00

Do you know what it is?

Wordless Wednesday

2009-03-11T07:15:00.000-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-03-03T21:35:00.002-06:00

Nikon D40, Aperture: F22, Focal: 34mm, Exposure: 1/50 sec, 200 ISO, No flash

Memories

2009-03-02T07:12:00.002-06:00

Nikon D40, Aperture: F11, Focal: 200mm, Exposure: 1 sec, 400 ISO, No flash
Converted to b&w with the Gimp.

Recently, my mother gave me a Ziplock bag of items from my childhood. I thought it might be interesting to arrange them on a background and photography them. I used my wife's coat with a red lining as the background and then ended up converting the picture to black and white. Light from a lamp was falling on the objects. I'm not sure the outcome produced what I had envisioned. I feel this is one of those ideas that just didn't work out.

I would appreciate any suggestions on what you think could have improved it.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-02-24T08:25:00.003-06:00

(I'm going to use this as my post for today and tomorrow. It is in the same series as the last two posts, so this should answer some questions.)
Nikon D40, Aperture: F3.5, Focal: 18mm, Exposure: 1/4000 sec, 200 ISO, No flash

Wordless Wednesday

2009-02-18T00:01:00.003-06:00

Nikon D40, Aperture: F54.8, Focal: 55mm, Exposure: 1/1599 sec, 200 ISO, No flash

Rusty Cable

2009-02-15T14:18:00.002-06:00

Nikon D40, Aperture: F5.6, Focal: 200mm, Exposure: 1/100 sec, 200 ISO, No flash. Converted from RAW by UFRAW and converted to black and white with the Gimp decompose function.

Happy Accident

2009-02-12T17:00:00.002-06:00

Nikon D40, Aperture: F4, Focal: 18mm, Exposure: 1/60 sec, 800 ISO, No flash

I didn't have enough light for the shutter speed I was using. However, I like the way this turned out.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-02-11T00:01:00.003-06:00

Nikon D40, Aperture: F22, Focal: 18mm, Exposure: 4.5 sec, 200 ISO, No flash, white balance: manual

Austin Streets At Night

2009-02-09T22:11:00.002-06:00

Nikon D40, Aperture: F25, Focal: 105mm, Exposure: 19.3 sec, 200 ISO, No flash, white balance: manual

Parking Lot

2009-02-07T20:45:00.003-06:00

Nikon D40, Aperture: F3.5, Focal: 18mm, Exposure: 1 sec, 200 ISO, No flash, white balance: manual

I was at my son's school and had brought my monopod, so I tried snapping a couple of shots in the parking lot because the western sky looked neat. The bright lights in the parking lot, and my unsteady stance, make this shot look very ethereal.

(Sorry, I couldn't think of a more interesting title.)

Night Photography

2009-02-05T07:27:00.003-06:00

I know that this is not a wow shot. In fact, I wouldn't even lump it in with the shots of mine that I consider 'good.' However, it is my first attempt at a night exposure when I had somewhat of an idea of what I was doing. I was going to do a shot in manual mode, but my remote seems to need a battery. So I did it in aperture mode and let the camera choose the shutter speed (of course, I had to touch the camera). I hope to do some more of these as soon as I get a battery for my remote and hopefully get some really cool stuff.

Oh, does anyone know what the bright white star in the center is? It was in the western sky.

Click on comments to see camera settings.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-02-04T07:10:00.001-06:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-01-28T11:31:00.001-06:00

Rodney

2009-01-26T14:50:00.002-06:00

Rodney

I like this picture quite a bit. Already published in my Project 365 photoblog, but I thought it worthy of inclusion here.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-01-21T13:09:00.005-06:00

Piano Strings

2009-01-18T21:49:00.002-06:00

Grainy. It might have helped if I had used a tripod.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-01-14T06:50:00.002-06:00

Smiling Eyes

2009-01-12T09:34:00.002-06:00

Grow Old With Me...

2009-01-09T15:30:00.002-06:00

In December my wife's group from church took their children to sing to the residents of a local nursing home. It was a blessing for all of us. One lady there was 100 years old! She is not in either of the pictures.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-01-07T09:53:00.003-06:00

I am using this entry for www.iheartfaces.com.

Read Me a Story

2009-01-01T19:49:00.002-06:00

Allen reads to his little brother.
(Does black and white enhance it in any way?)

A Picture a Day For a Year

2009-01-01T19:28:00.001-06:00

I am starting another photoblog in addition to this one. I have titled it '365 Days of Photo' (yes, I know there is no S at the end of Photo).

I have heard of this before, taking a picture every day for a year, and have been contemplating doing it for a while. Traditionally, I'm not very good at finishing projects I start, but I hope to finish this one.

I'm keeping 365 Days of Photo separate from Life As I Know It because the focus of Life is on photography as an art form and my attempts to improve at it. The focus of 365 Days of Photo is to just take a photo a day for 365 days in a row and document my year.

When I started Life As I Know It, I talked about photography and snapshots and figuring out what makes them different. In my quest to grow as a photographer, I forgot that sometimes it's the snapshots that help us record our memories, regardless of the perceived artistic value of the photograph. However, 365 Days of Photo and Life may overlap from time to time if I've taken a photograph I really like that day.

To see more about Project 365 and to see examples, follow the link: Project 365.
365 Days of Photo

Wordless Wednesday

2008-12-31T06:35:00.001-06:00

What's Wrong With This Picture?

2008-12-28T19:32:00.001-06:00

Not really a great capture or an attempt at art, but I couldn't resist.

Frisco Square Fountain At Night

2008-12-22T21:35:00.001-06:00

When I saw this fountain and the light and shadow, I knew I had to get some pictures. I think they turned out pretty neat. :)

Wordless Wednesday

2008-12-10T02:01:00.000-06:00

Icicles On Trees

2008-12-09T10:49:00.000-06:00

Kathleen Connally says of her own pictures, "some work, some don't." So, do any of these 'work'?

Blast Off!

2008-12-04T13:08:00.001-06:00

Allen had swimming lessons this last summer. They didn't work out well, but I do like this picture.

Wordless Wednesday-More Sunset Clouds

2008-11-26T06:31:00.001-06:00

Sunset Clouds

2008-11-20T21:26:00.001-06:00

Sunrise Clouds

2008-11-13T07:24:00.000-06:00

I really needed a better vantage point for capturing these clouds, but they looked so beautiful at that moment so I just have to deal with my roof being in one of them. Not my best, but I don't think they are totally worthless. :)

Bois D'arc Fruit

2008-11-06T09:50:00.000-06:00

Fruit of the Bois D'arc tree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage-orange or http://www.mitzenmacher.net/blog/?p=589

Wordless Wednesday

2008-11-05T07:10:00.000-06:00

My Boys

2008-11-04T07:26:00.001-06:00

Three Turtles

2008-11-02T20:52:00.000-06:00

My wife thought the turtles were cute.

Lake Silhouettes

2008-10-30T07:31:00.000-05:00

I had to look up the spelling of 'shilhouette'. :)
Anyway, I am going to try and post pictures more often than just Wednesday.
Enjoy, or not...

Wordless Wednesday

2008-10-15T07:10:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2008-10-01T06:07:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2008-09-24T15:00:00.000-05:00

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2008-09-17T08:38:00.000-05:00

I know one of the is overexposed, but I like it. :)

Wordless Wednesday

2008-09-10T07:37:00.001-05:00

From Soccer Fall 2008

Photo Friday: Exercise

2008-08-31T11:02:00.000-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2008-08-13T06:39:00.001-05:00

Spending Tickets At Chuck E. Cheese

2008-08-07T12:50:00.000-05:00

My son spending his ticket at Chuck E. Cheese on his 5th birthday.

Wordless Wednesday

2008-08-05T21:44:00.000-05:00

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2008-07-30T07:25:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2008-07-23T06:56:00.001-05:00

Christ of the Ozarks

2008-07-19T10:28:00.000-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2008-07-15T19:16:00.000-05:00

Taken at Blanchard Springs Caverns near Mountain View, Arkansas.