Photo of the Week - Fireworks!

The Royals sponsor a fireworks show after every Friday home game. Last night was the "Big" show of the season. These are two of the best of my photos. We were positioned east of the K just off Blue Ridge Cutoff.




You can see more fireworks and a sunset view of the stadium in the Night Views gallery at my gallery site.

This is the first time I've shot fireworks using my Nikon D90. The more elaborate color controls give you more options in highlighting the colors. I had to do some post-processing to get the colors the way I liked. Next time I will be able to set that up directly in the camera.

Alan is home for the weekend. He has moved into his apartment in McPherson and is here to take back the last of his furniture.

Photo Adventure - Lake Shawnee

Debbie and I had an adventure day today. We traveled from KC to Topeka, KS to visit Lake Shawnee. My reason for visiting is that I will be shooting wedding pictures there for a friend on July 5th. So I wanted to see the "lay of the land" and get a feel for the light.

Our friend Cat has picked a beautiful location. The service will be here in the gazebo. Another event was setting up while we were there. There were at least three in the area.


The picture of the gazebo is taken at about the same time as the service in July. If it is typical Kansas weather it will be a bright day, like today. I will have to deal with some deep shadows and high dynamic range.

Debbie was my practice model. I like how this photo came out. With the high dynamic range between the foreground and the background I'm going to need to use a lot of fill flash.


When I go photo adventuring, Debbie gets to go quilt shop hopping. We found two nice shops in Topeka. She found materials or books at each shop. Sometimes we go on quilt adventures: Debbie puts together a list of shops to visit, and I try to find something to shoot when we get there!

Love you Hon!

Photo of the Week - Gift of the Sun

I went out looking to take advantage of the high contrast that the mid-day sun was offering to shoot B/W.



The day lilies and the statuette made a nice combination. I generated more darkness in the image by spot metering the bright spots in the background and using that exposure to capture the foreground image.