Boca Shuffle

D200 / 12-24mm
I went down to the beach this morning, finally after 2 months of ugly weather for Florida, and found this guy doing the Boca Shuffle.  Up and down this beach sidewalk you find all the old, and wealthy, people out for the morning walk.  This was shot using the hanging camera in hand while walking and hoping you get something.  I think he was checking out the 60+ year old babes that had just walked by.  His pace picked up just as I was passing him.  He would have made the perfect shot for the project if he had on black sox.

**Dolph

State House Night

Under the wire!

Here's a Maryland landmark - the State House in Annapolis. It's the oldest state capital building still in use, dating back to colonial times. During the Revolution, Congress met there a few times.

Three More for Feb. Project

Nikon D100, Tamron 24-135mm

Here is another set for the Feb. 2010 Project ("Landmarks"). By the way, I linked the project name to the labeled set of posts on the Project of the Month page. I'll go back and label the previous months' posts when I have some time. For now, the only one with a link is the current project.

--Warren

Seattle Landmark - obsolete oil plant at Gas Works Park

They have managed to make a former disgusting plant a somewhat popular, even celebrated sight in Seattle! This place packs people for the July 4th fireworks which shows across the water. Other days, you may find of picnickers and kids and kite-flyers and bikers/runners taking rests.. Time heals all wounds they say?

There are a lot of pipes and equipment and large storage facilities in the park. I tried to get a few shots from different angles to include most of it. I love the contrast between "nice park" and "horrible pollutant". The best part being that the horrible pollutant is also obsolete!

Sailing in the Bay

Just wanted to post these remaining sailing shots for my "San Francisco" theme. I never really looked at sailboats before, but they can be absolutely beautiful. The lines and the colors can really catch your eyes.

Baltimore City Hall

I got to take some "landmark" photos after all. Having a pocketable camera sure helps.

I went to a karaoke meetup late afternoon yesterday. The bar is just 1/2-block from the back side of City Hall, and the dramatic lighting of the dome prompted me to get a shot for our forum.

At ISO 800, the resolution and lack of noise is remarkable. The exposure was f/4.5 @ 1/25 sec with a focal length equivalent to 60mm. The lack of motion blur testifies to the effectiveness of the modern digicam image stabilization.

This is image was taken as a jpg, but I decided to open it in Camera Raw to see if it needed tweaking of exposure, color balance, etc. I just gave it a smidge more exposure (interstingly, left to its own devices, the camera did not blow out the highlights on the dome) and left everything else the same. In Photoshop CS3, I only used the Distort filter to correct the vertical perspective. Then a little cropping.

The only sharpening I did was after I did a Save for Web, in order to counteract the inherent softening in the resizing process.

To so some more pixel-peeping, click on this image to see a screen capture of a portion of the photo viewed at 100% in PS C3.

SF Landmark - Conservatory of Flowers

Canon SD300

Last Saturday was a beautiful day to be out in Golden Gate Park after many days of rain.

--Warren

Seattle Landmark - Fremont Troll

I've wanted to visit this troll for the longest time and now with the landmark project, I finally had a great enough excuse to go trolling!




Troll looking so guilty already.. But they will not understand that there was no good angel to help counter the evil angel's ideas of grandiose destruction.



Poor Troll....



They will keep him here under the Aurora Bridge forever!



*sirens* Put the car down Troll... Put the car down...