I'm not pleased with any of the shots of me, so you get a shot of Don instead.

I'm in the middle of a shoot of myself, for my new school ID picture. Here's one from the dancefloor (Not me.)

Here's a shot I took of part of a little Pavilion at a park. I'll be posting a bunch of pictures from this day as I work on moving down to Georgia. I hope you enjoy the shots from the wedding, I'll try to pick some interesting ones.

For those of you who like to spend your time looking at the ground, I'd like to direct your attention to the beautiful skies that we've been having in Western, MA at least, lately.

On the Job

I do this kind of stuff more than I'd like to. Gas mask is not any kind of fashion statement, my lungs burn from insulation quite often. Oh yay.

I shot this on a timer, F-Stop priority (since it was pretty hard to see down there and really cramped.) Auto focus, and hoping it might come out. I'm below a house, running wires through old insulation and crawling in dirt and god knows what. Addition work is really crappy compared to working on new houses. The stuff you are crawling in hasn't seen the likes of man for at least 20 years.

And to think I used to go caving for fun. haha.

A fellow photographer

This is a shot of a fellow camera lover, and friend of mine, Sam Boyko. He's working on his own photo a day project here.

I shot this while we were fooling around with my new Canon flash unit (and a lot of fire, you might see that later).

One from the worksite

My other job, at this moment, is working on construction sites with my father doing electrical work. This is the house we are currently working on. I took this yesterday after a long day of work.

I shot this using my 20d, a polarizing filter, and my 17-85mm lens. I processed the RAW file through CS2 Bridge, making slight levels and curves adjustments and bumping up the saturation in the blue channels.

This is very old, you've probably seen it before. I've got a lot of work processed that I don't have permission to post yet (paid work) and a lot of work that I haven't had time to post yet do to my other work and planning for the move down to Georgia. Hopefully this will hold you over for tonight. :)

Playing around with a subtle technique

This was a shot I grabbed of a friend at a public park. I got bored and used it to experiment a bit with layers. I copied the background layer and used a Gaussian blur on it. I then set it to lighten and knocked the opacity down to 77%. I then masked out the eyes and lips a little bit to bring a little more sharpness back there. I wanted to get the sort of effect one sometimes gets with a softening filter used over the lens. It's not really the same, but I like it on this one. My favorite effected part is the hair and glasses.

I also knocked up the saturation a little bit in RAW when I processed it. It was a cloudy day so it wasn't too harsh out. It had just rained, actually.

This was taken about 3 minutes before I took that picture of Lance posted below.

I also want to point out a buddy of mine now has a blog on livejournal. He's an amazing award winning photographer and you should check him out at .