Cloudy Beach Day

Here's what you do when you're on the beach, it's cloudy, a windy, and not blisteringly hot. You grab your camera, grab your kindle, grab a lounger under a thatched roof hut, grab a piña colada, and enjoy your day. Don't forget to get a picture of yourself with some serious beach hair!

Bowling for Kids

We did Big Brother's Big Sister's of KC's Summer Bowl for Kids Sake again this year. After doing a bit of fundraising, we bowl, eat lots of free pizza, pass on free but horrible beer, and have lots of fun. I even shot with 3 different lenses, including my newest aquisition, the Helios 44-2 58/2, WITH a speedbooster! Unfortunately, this setting wasn't super conducive to show off the gorgeous swirly bokeh, but I have some of those to share eventually. It was so dark in this place I had to shoot at an ungodly high ISO the whole time, even shooting all my lenses wide open. I'll let you judge for yourself, but I think the noise is fantastic for shooting at ISO 5000 and even up to 6400! If anything it adds a bit of a film-esque grain to the shots.

Wedding Reception

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it much yet on here or on Flickr, but I got married recently! We got married in the Dominican Republic in May, and a couple weekends ago had a reception back in Kansas City for all of our friends and family who couldn't make it. Between helping getting everything set up and getting ready for the reception I managed to snap a few photos. My cousin was nice enough to shoot photos throughout the reception, so he got the good candid shots, but here are what I managed!

















Apparently I thought this was the perfect angle/photo to photograph

Castillo San Cristóbal

Castillo San Cristóbal is a fort in San Juan that I've had the chance to visit twice now. Yeah yeah, big deal, you've heard that already. Interestingly, while I did see a few of the same areas, we actually explored a previously unknown (to me) area of the fort on my second visit. A few of the areas I'd visited in 2011 gave me some memorable photos, so for a couple of them I actually shot a similar photo as a fun then and now.














Cannon balls are still there!
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At first I thought that these coats hadn't moved an inch, but upon closer comparison they have! (BTW, 2011 photo totally wins)
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I love photographing these things, in case you haven't already noticed...





I didn't photograph this again, but it's still there, I did see it!
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