Beach Walk

Bundle up and keep walking is the order of the day!
Smell that sea air!

Robert Moses State Park in Late October

Beautiful but freezing.  Winter first comes to the beach!
Brrrr.

Back-lit SHkull

ad fun with this. I illuminated the skull from inside as well as back-lighting it. This was
probably over-kill. Did some one say KILL?? MUAHAHAHAHHA! Sorry.

Pumpkin with Candles

Was surprised to see the star effect in the candles. Prof. Colombraro said I got this because
I was so close to the sublect

Blogging Again

KISS - "Keep it Simple, Stupid"  is a good model for life and for the photography student! ;Spent hours setting up my images for my Digital I class. I took way too much time. However, I discovered some new things, which is the point of it all. The first was a nice effect in my background curtain caused by my back-lit pumpkin. This was totally unexpected.

Game Model

My daughter Sarah is trying bravely to give me what I want in this image.  Trouble was, even I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do.  We did get some shadows though!  I'm still a neophyte with the Canon D20.

What I've Learned So Far

Say Hallelujah!  I'm finally posting on my blog.  The first thing I learned about photography here at Sccc is
that it's all about light.  Previously, I looked at light as something I had to manage, and which sometimes was
pretty tricky.  Now I can see that I have to learn as much about light as I can and embrace it instead of begrudging it.