Sometimes I Pretend

Snowmageddon - the photos

2010-02-05T18:38:00.004-05:00

6:30 PM, February 5th:

2:00 PM, February 6th:

2:00 PM, February 10th:

Fall and Winter

2009-12-31T11:08:00.003-05:00

Merry Christmas

2007-12-24T00:28:00.000-05:00

Our House

2007-10-06T16:27:00.000-04:00

...is a very very very fine house, with two cats in the yard - CSNY

Aspen, July 2007

2007-07-23T15:30:00.000-04:00

Happy Easter

2007-04-08T13:19:00.000-04:00

My calendar says spring, but the weather says otherwise. The flowers are siding with the calendar though.

Nature

2007-02-27T22:41:00.000-05:00

Downtown Baltimore, 1-16-07

2007-01-19T22:35:00.000-05:00

Seneca Creek Trail - Fall

2006-10-15T21:24:00.000-04:00

Aminals

2006-10-13T11:43:00.000-04:00

Deep Creek Lake

2006-08-21T14:34:00.000-04:00

Summer Quickie

2006-08-02T13:58:00.000-04:00

Wow, been a long time huh? Bet you thought I forgot about this thing. Well, I've just been super busy, and it's been too hot to go trolling for photographs. But these two somehow managed to end up on my camera, so here they are.

Fireworks

2006-07-07T23:47:00.000-04:00

Hey, it's still Friday.

I was happy with the way these came out. They're not "perfect" textbook firework images, but I love how they have a surreal, almost astral feel to them. A few even seem almost subcellular...like the ring ones that look like DNA during mitosis. Okay, maybe that's just the scientist talking. Enjoy.

Twilight Shots

2006-07-05T15:20:00.000-04:00

Mostly taken at or after dusk.

Fireworks set tomorrow or Friday.

Rain and travel, and travelling in the rain

2006-06-26T20:36:00.000-04:00

Awesome photosets

2006-06-19T22:29:00.000-04:00

I stumbled across Phil Toledano's work online tonight. Absolutely amazing. I wish I had talent like that. And the time to devote to it, obviously.

Definitely link-bar worthy.

Roy G. Biv's garden

2006-06-15T22:55:00.000-04:00

Well, that was a little later than promised. Indigo is a tough color to distinguish in the plant world. And there were flowers that I wanted to take pictures of, but I didn't think that parking on the shoulder of a 6-lane highway to do so was such a good idea. All in all, this was fun though...kind of like a scavenger hunt.

Commute

2006-06-09T20:44:00.000-04:00

I've been wanting to do these for a while, and finally managed to fit them in. Will have another post on Monday night. Stay tuned.

Weekend

2006-06-06T00:03:00.000-04:00

Not my best stuff, but I've been lazy. I have two separate photosets in my head if I'd just make the time to get off my duff and shoot them. But here you go anyways. I *was* happy with the way the rocks turned out and made that my new desktop background.

Other people's work

2006-05-26T18:51:00.000-04:00

MSN's "The Week in Pictures" for May 18-25 is particularly good this week. Click here, then click "see the slide show" to view.

Here and There

2006-05-15T16:23:00.000-04:00

Two interesting textures:

My sister suggested I try some black and white shots:

Seneca Creek Trail

2006-05-10T22:04:00.000-04:00

A unique take

2006-05-06T23:05:00.000-04:00

At night I like to photograph, producing camera images
And I don't have a flash
But my little notebook records the subjects at hand

In photo one, a flower
Photo two is a drunk and naked girl
In photo three is my dog in the backyard
Each frame captures the various subtleties of black
Each frame captures the various subtleties of black
Subtleties of black
Subtleties of black

-Barenaked Ladies, Night Photographs

Sky

2006-04-29T17:34:00.000-04:00

The one that got away

2006-04-26T23:34:00.000-04:00

Two actually. There are two photographs that exist only in my mind.

1. A picture of Matt. We went to Florida with some friends for spring break during our sophomore year of college, and decided to swing by Daytona Beach for the afternoon on our way back up to VA. We were walking barefoot on the beach right where the waves meet the shore; Matt was wearing a white t-shirt and had his khaki pants rolled up a few inches. The breeze was perfect, the sunlight was perfect...and the camera was in the car.

2. The first week or so that I was at Hopkins, I had to go to the occupational health center and get the HepB vaccine because I was working with patient blood samples. I was on the shuttle bus somewhere in East Baltimore, and we stopped at a light. To the left was a small brick abandoned lot, covered in graffiti. A single, huge sunflower was growing in the center of the lot.

Concept Shots

2006-04-21T16:31:00.000-04:00

I'm not exactly sure what that means, other than the fact that for all these shots I had an idea in my head (either before or after I saw something) and made the shot happen, as opposed to others where I see something and pull out the camera and take the shot right there. These all required a bit of planning or arranging, even if it was just figuring out where to park. I have a huge guilt complex about parking in a "No Parking" zone, even if it is just for half a minute or so.

East Baltimore

2006-04-19T22:05:00.000-04:00

Lest I become typecast as a nature photographer after my first post, this set has a decidedly more urban flair.

I also wanted to respond to a comment from my last post that I was thinking about, that a good picture tells a story. I think that's true, sometimes. But sometimes I think a picture can be meaningful just in of itself. An interesting pattern, an unusual angle, experimenting with lighting or color or zoom. For me, sometimes the composition of the picture is more meaningful than the subject matter itself. It's really all one big experiment anyways, I've never tried to be artistic in any way with the camera before this.

I may make another post this weekend - I have a few potential shots in my head that I haven't been able to work in yet.

First Shots

2006-04-12T21:00:00.000-04:00

I'm a photoblogger? So I decided to give this a shot. Here's the products of my hour-long walk around the neighborhood today. I'll try to post new pictures around once a week or so.