Courtney

My daughter wants me to take her Senior pictures for her and so I thought that I would go and start practing. These are a few I took the other night and even though she is only a junior(for a couple of days anyway). I think that I can use some of these for what she is looking for. I plan on doing quite a few more....but hey at least I am being proactive.

California with a 50

I recently went to a Botanical garden in Southern California.  I wanted to go and practice taking pictures of flowers and also practice taking pictures with a fixed focal length.  I took my 50mm 1.4 lens and tried various apertures took get the look I wanted and to also get the correct exposure I was wanting.  Here are are few from that trip.

Fires out

Fires out, originally uploaded by Clint Hanson.

For the past 3 years I have been traveling to California for work. I sometimes frequent Pt. Mugu near Camarillo and Oxnard and have taken quite a few photos at this particular beach. The past time that I went there I found what looked to be a used fire pit that I am sure was used for a fun time out on the beach. For some particular reason it caught my eye and I couldn't resist posting it on my blog.

3 trouble makers

Shannah

Mariah

Rylie

I took 3 of my girls out to take pictures the other day. I continue to learn more and more about taking pictures. I am continually amazed at how the simplest of structures can make for a nice picture. For these pitcures I found a couple of old barns (we had to trudge through some snow to get to them but as you can tell, they made a nice backdrop), an old bridge and railroad tracks.

This was a series of pictures that I did for a Christmas present. Two of these pictures were recently accepted into the Pentax Photo Gallery (my first attempt at having pictures accepted). This was a fun gift to put together. Now if I can only find the prints that I had made I could get the gifts to the people that I had made this for.