Dallas Skyline and car trails

This picture was taken at 6:28am Sunday morning. The traffic on the Stemmons Freeway (I35E) was already heavy. Canon 5d Mk II 20 seconds f10 ISO 100 105mm with an ND8 filter.

Busted trip gone good

Surfing through the regional photography meetups, I found a DFW Photography Group meetup where they were going to shoot Dallas skyline and car light trails from the roof of the 30 story Renaissance hotel on I-35. I drove the 250 miles from Tulsa, checked in to my room at the hotel, fired up my laptop and found out the meetup was cancelled! Seems the hotel had forgotten they had scheduled a pool party on the roof at the same time. I was really bummed.

I went to the roof to look around. There was only one place to shoot from. I found out later that the organizer had arranged ladders to access a different part of the roof. I noticed the pool opens at 6 am so I got up early and went up and got some shots. They have a wall around the top for safety and I had to extend my tripod as high as it would go - close to 7 feet. Not too stable for 20 second shots. Many were not sharp but I got a few that were very sharp.

One of the organizers invited me to go on a photowalk with a small group of medium and large format film photographers Sunday morning. I was the only digital guy. I had a great time and got some good images and talked to some very interesting people.

All in all, for a busted trip, it was pretty good.

Tulsa Zoo Meetup Scavenger Hunt

About 25 of us went to the Tulsa zoo with a list of things to shoot. The list included things like shallow DOF, leading lines, low key, etc. Afterwards, we went to the White River Fish Market for lunch. Yum.


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Car Show at Fudruckers

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Under the bridge

20090425-IMG_4081, originally uploaded by lefturn99.

Shot from under the bridge

21st Street Bridge Shoot

Last weekend the Oklahoma Strobist had a shoot at the 21st street bridge. Had a good time, met some great shooters and models, then had good Mexican afterward.

Texas Trip

As usual, I tied a business trip to a little shooting vacation. I went to a Battery conference in San Antonio and afterwards spent some time looking for wildflowers to shoot. Not a good year in Texas for wildflowers because of the drought, but there were lots of flowers around Brenham. It wasn't the greatest trip but it was ok. I kinda bounced all over the place. I went to Brenham, then down to Aransas Pass, then back to Austin, Glen Rose, and back home.

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