Another photo from the reactor. This board is used to tell who's currently in the reactor building in case of emergency.

Third in my nuclear reactor series. These dials are from the control room.

I've been working on a photo project at the MIT Reactor. The photos will be installed in the lobby of the reactor soon. I'm going to post all my photos from there. This is a personal favorite.

Part of my project for my photography class. More to come...

This is Chris, I met him in NYC this weekend. He was nice and took an interest in my photography.

The bell tower from Il Duomo, Florence Italy.

From Berlin

We've been saving water bottles for quite a while.

We somehow ended up in the middle of a massive marathon in Berlin, hence the blurry photo. I quite like the effect, however.

A canal reflection from my trip to Europe this summer. There was some stuff in the water, but I removed it after the fact.

A Pieta statue from Germany.

One of my father's colleagues offered to take me up in a small plane the other day. I met him at the downtown airport in Greenville and we went up in a Piper Warrior, a training plane. For a while I got to take the controls, and I've fallen in love. I'll be getting my pilot's license within a few years.

Took this a long time ago out in Cambridge. Reprocessed it the other day and liked the way it came out.

A photo from a ferry in Koblenz, Germany.

A chain on some gravel at my house over the summer in CT.

Guitar Hero II gets released tomorrow, and my friends are obsessed with it. Here's Chris playing the original. This is the post I've made of a photo which uses my new flash. I bounced it from the ceiling to avoid that front flash look.

This is the interior of the Reichstag Cupola. The mirrors are intended to reflect light down into the debate chamber. The same composition is on the cover of my Architecture book from freshman year.

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, Discovery Channel's Mythbusters came to MIT last night and gave a talk about their show, personal lives, and interests. It was great. Their personalities match those displayed on the air, and they're very funny. We even got to see some footage that was never displayed on the show. I did quite a bit of noise removal on this one. It doesn't look great at full size.

This is a spooky picture of a house at the beach in CT. I took from a low level so that the sea/horizon in the background wouldn't be visible.

I haven't posted in a while, that sucks. Here's a mural advertisement for a cleaners in CT. I thought it was pretty impressive.

This pair of doors is from Reggensburg in Germany. It was beside a biergarten where we had lunch one day. The contrast between the pink and green caught my eye. Pretty typical among my photos

I can't believe that I saw a Bugatti Veyron in Europe this summer. Before I left, I remember telling my friends that it would be the most incredible experience to see one. Maybe that's why I love Berlin so much. The Veyron is the most incredible car of all time. Over 1000 bhp. Let a Ferrari get to 100mph and the Veyron will beat it to 200. Check it out at: http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-1890873,00.html

Over the summer there was a guy who lived down the street who would go fly fishing in the canal behind our house. I took some photos one day.

Inside a Cathedral in Europe, I think it was in Munich. (Jen, you'll have to help me out)

From the Beach in Connecticut over the summer. Although this is a grainy photo, I really like the composition and the shallow depth of field created by the telephoto lens.

This is the Berliner Dom in Lustgarden, Berlin, Germany. We ended a walking tour of Berlin here this past summer. The Cathedral is spectacular, and I think this photo does it justice. Eighty-five meters at its highest.

This is a staircase at a museum in Berlin during my Europe Trip.

A piece of rusted iron sitting on the beach in CT. I think I chose the angle correctly, though the dof is a little shallow.

From the beach in Connecticut where I lived this summer. I took a full time job and will be living there next year (though probably not at the beach).

From the art fair again, some spilled paint in the kids area.

Still working on those comments. Went to an Art fair with Jessica today and took a few good shots. This girl was very cute and agreeable to having her photo taken.

Here's another photo from Cambridge the other day. I think I've finally fixed the comment spam problem with a blocked IP list.

Good news, today I purchased an EF 17-40mm f/4L lens at B&H in NYC. I can't wait to get out and take some photos with it. I also purchased a 430EX Speedlite and hope to use it soon. This photo is from a while back in March, when I first tried some studio shots. I setup a backdrop and got a few 300W lights and staged some shots. This one came out really well. On top of that, Veuve Clicquot is my favorite champagne.

Saw this in Boston when I went up this weekend, love it.

I took this in Europe, and love the colors.

Here's the same seagull in mid flight

Here's a seagull from the beach.

A column in a church in Germany

This is the DB skyscraper in Berlin.

There are plenty of herons in the creek behind our house. This is the first of many shots.

This is the whole of the Reichstag whose cupola was featured in yesterday's shot.

This is the Reichstag building, the seat of the German Parliment in Berlin. The cupola on top was designed by Norman Foster after the reunification of Germany and represents a clarity of German government.

Here's another shot from the Gallardo. The brakes and wheels are amazing

This Gallardo lives up the street from me in Fairfield. Quite a treat to see a Lambo, but there are plenty of beautiful cars in Connecticut.

This is another photo from the Brugges Market. This stack of trays was begging to have its photo taken. I've been working on the sharpening for this photo for about an hour and I continue to vacillate between having it really sharp and pretty soft. I went for something in between.

I'm living at the beach in Connecticut for the summer. It's a great place to take photos, and I took this one down at the beach the other day after I arrived. There's plenty of seaweed around, it's a lot more like Britain than the South Carolina beaches.

Here's yet another polo photo.

Here's another polo photo.

I'll be putting up more photos from Europe later, but I went to a Polo Match today and it was incredible. It's the first one I've been to, and not only was the game really engaging, but the atmosphere was pleasant too. Overall, it was a great experience and a great photo opportunity.

When we walked around Brugges in the morning, we walked through a market and I spotted this collection of brass object. Makes for a good photo, nice and warm.

The canal in Brugges, looking towards part of the city

From Brugges again, some graffiti on a wall near the market.

Another photo from Brugges, this is looking at the eye of a bust with a building along the river in the background. I probably should have gotten a little more of the foreground subject in order to grab some more context, but I still like the photo.

In case you didn't notice, I haven't posted in a long time. Also, my site has been down. This is because I went to Europe to backpack for three weeks without any reasonable plan for continuing to keep my site up, so instead I took it down. But now I'm back with a picture from Brugges in Belgium. I will have plenty of photos from Europe over the next few weeks followed by many from Connecticut where I am living over the summer.

A railing abandoned against a wall, just simple.

I took this over by the Fire Proof Warehouse quite a while ago. I've been rummaging through old photos lately as I haven't taken any in a long time, partly due to being lazy, partly due to school work, and partly due to the horrific weather we've been having.

A window on the Fire Proof Warehouse, caged.

Some type of tank with some type of paint.

Outside 26-100 on campus

I took this one on campus back in Feburary. I've been reaching back into old stuff, I really need to get out and take some new photos.

Memorial Drive from my dorm.

That's me. No purple jokes.

Not sure how I feel about this one. Jess inspired (forced) me to take it, though I should have used more of my elite photography skills to make it good.

Another from Feburary, some stair in the Park Street T station.

Taken in Feburary, a silhouette of a tree against a building.

Took this back in Feburary, just a wall where the plaster is falling off.

An emergency phone on campus. Taken a few months ago.

This is a bit of a different photo. It's my pants, I'm sitting crosslegged.

Contrary to popular belief, this crane has been on campus for several weeks, as they're renovating building 6. I.M.Pei's Green Building is in the background. I'm fond of this shot, and happy with how it came out. I'd been trying unsuccesfully to capture the crane, and finally got a good shot.

This is the Ralph Landau Building at MIT. It's rumored to be a 30-60-90 triangle, but in fact, it's 33-57-90.

I'm going to do a series of photos of I.M.Pei's architecture. This first is the inscription on MIT's Green Building

My Dad took this photo recently on a trip to Thailand. I couldn't resist posting it.

Took this a while ago in a series of photos I was very happy with.

Taken at school in building 3 at MIT.

This photo was taken around the same time as the couple from a few days ago. I thought this house was a bit creepy, though can't explain why. There's a bit of lens flare in the photo which doesn't look great.

Spring has finally made it to Boston (sort of). Flowers over campus opened up the other day, this is the result. I intended it to be a bit noisy and difficult to differentiate the flowers.

From seconds before yesterday's post, some doors in an apartment in Cambridge.

It's been a while since I've posted a picture of a building I like. This one is from Cambridge, near Harvard on a side street.

A window in Cambridge.

Found in the basement of building 7.

Over in MIT's Killian Court, this stump is all that remains of a great elm which was removed over Spring Break since it had reached its life expectancy. Thanks Jessica for pointing out this opportunity.

This is my 100th post! Also, this is my first post of something I did in a studioesque setting, at least with a background and lights and such. Also, Pete, we miss you buddy.

Took this one in Baker with Jessica before spring break. I like it. Baker House was designed by Alvar Aalto.

Just downstream from Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls, the building is the outlet from the old Canadian hydro facility.

Here's another photo of Albany.

I really do love this whiskey, especially this 10 year single malt, due to is subtle almond notes. The first one is here.

The more I look at the photos I took in Albany, NY, the more I realize that it's really deserted. We went on a Sunday and the ladies at Subway tried to convince us that it was much busier on weekdays, but after looking at how many buildings were boarded up, I seem to doubt it. Also, some of the architecture suggests a revival in the 60s/70s that didn't do too much.

Our first stop on the trip was in Albany New York where we ate some lunch. After making a wrong turn, I stopped the car to take a photo of this bridge.

This is a shot from my trip of Downtown Pittsburgh. You can see where the rivers join, and you can see Heinz Stadium too. It's a lot like this post.

Here's another photo from Niagara. This time it's Horsehoe Falls (the famous one) from the Canada side (the good side).

Since I took quite a few photos during my trip, I'll probably be posting many from Niagara Falls. To start, here's a pretty busy photo. It shows water crashing down onto the rocks at the bottom of Amera's Falls. There is ice on top of the rocks, which seems to be formed in layers, I assume since the mist freezes in layers on the rocks. The water is over to the right. I did a little dodging and burning for this one, and I think it turned out well, let me know.

I've been gone for a few days on a road trip to see some of the Northeast, thus, there have been no posts. I'll be putting up some photos from that trip, but in the meantime, here's a photo from the Stata Center

It's been a few days since I've put up a photo, I was inundated with work as Spring Break approached, but now it's here, so all is well again. This is a photo of a sandwich, looks delicious, though I contend it should have had lettuce. Anyways, typical college food.

The other day I looked out my window to see one of my friends doing his baseball sprints. I reveled in his misery by taking this photo, which I really like, it reminds me of running after football practice when I was in High School.

Quote of the day: "A little nudity goes a long way."

One of those huge bales of wire, covered. I underexposed this photo just a bit too much.

A photo of some railroad tracks, you can see some CO2 clouds in the distance.

Taken a few days ago, this is the Fire Proof Warehouse.

I took this just yesterday, either this lady was just nuts or she gets so excited about St. Patrick's Day that she dresses up all week. Anyway, she was very nice and more than excited to have her picture taken. Out of the shot there is a green balloon she'd been carrying around all day.

Taken just the other day over by another MIT building which consumes tons of frigid gases. This is a chainlink fence being slowly consumed by the frost growing on one of those giant gas tanks. I love this photo

It was raining the other day, but I took some photos anyway, including this one. As soon as I saw the hose, I knew how the DOF and picture should come out. I wish it wasn't wet, or I would have got on the ground to ensure the best focus, but the camera did a pretty good job of it.

A photo from my trip to Europe this past summer. This is at the Giant's Causeway, and while I wasn't lucky enough to see Finn McCool, I did snap this photo from the upper path. You can make out the people walking along the actual causeway.

I won't bother describing this, it's obvious, but I will say that I really like photos like this.

This is the building whose door was the subject of yesterday's photo. It's pink, with a green door, very stylish.

A photo from my wandering around the other day. Not much to say about it; it was on a building which holds a lot of electrical equipment, I assume.

Here's another photo from my wander in Cambridge the other day. I haven't posted anything with sky for a while, so I thought it would be a nice change. Also, the rich color of the polarized sky reflecting of the windows is great.

It's nice to be posting a photo that's in my regular style. I liked taking a jaunt into different processing, but I really like photos like this that jump out or have intersting detail. This is taken over at Cambridge's Garment District, which is actually a second-hand clothing store. I think this must be the back door to the company that runs it. I took quite a few photos while I was out walking in Cambridge the other day, and you'll see them over the next couple of days.

A true snapshot, completely accidental, though I liked it. It was taken as a JPEG in that green square mode.

I found another photo I decided to process from the other day. Just a door into some building somewhere, though seldom used, as apparent from the rust and snow.

More adventures in attempting to process photos differently, though admittedly it's a lot like the stuff I would normally do.

Yet another in this series of processing differently. I think this one is interesting, but lacks intrigue, the bolts are nice.

Another attempt at processing differently. This one ended up with the sky looking really dark, though I don't think it matters too much. Looks a bit like night time.

Another photo from the other day, one again processed differently.

I'm not quite sure what I like about this photo, but rest assured, it's not much. It's basically and excercise in perspective and DOF, while giving me another chance to process things differently. I prefer yesterday's post, however. The subsequent posts will be better.

Despite staying up very late last night, and searing cold in Boston, I took lots of photos today. I've decided that I'm going to process them differently than I normally do, in part to try different things, and to work on finding an individual style. As most of my stuff has been very saturated and bright, in the past, these next photos will be less so, including this photo of some valves that I saw on campus. Let me know what you think

This scene caught my eye the other day. Someone parked his/her scooter outside the cogen plant, and I thought it looked interesting.

This sign caught my eye the other day. I've been passing by it for three years, practically daily since it's on a main thoroughfare through school, but never thought about it. Its discarded nature makes me think it must not be that important to anyone.

Here's a photo of MIT's Kresge Auditorium, there's lots of post processing to make it look striking, but I'm happy with the effect. The auditorium was designed by Eero Saarinen, by the way.

I took this photo at the same time as yesterday's. I don't really like taking photos of other people's art, but this time I couldn't avoid it. This is a gallery of Arnold Newman's photography, and he is an incredible portrait artist.

I took this photo yesterday while walking around campus between classes. It's a radiator in the exact center of the MIT campus.

Since I had some good news today, I opened a bottle of wine. And since I opened a bottle of wine, here's a cork.

Here's a guy walking in Boston Common. I've processed the photo with a sepia tone and darkened out the edges much like the previous photo, though I don't think the effect is quite as strong here. I need to work on setting up a composition like this one a bit better, make the subject more imposing in the photo and whatnot. I'd love to hear a comment.

Just a photo of a fence on Boylston Street. A bit noisy due to the high ISO, but this was before I knew what I was doing

This photo is at the Boston Public Library. It's the main stairway up to the reading room, and I took it with my friend's 20D while she was visiting me in Boston

I took this photo just as school started. It'a a view of the three doors at the main entrance to MIT, Lobby 7, taken through the scalloped fence that surrounds the second level.

This is a point-and-shoot photo from a while ago. It's a building in Boston near the gigantic postal distribution center. I really like it, and will probably return to shoot it with my SLR instead of my point-and-shoot.

Here is another picture from Bourges. This is from the top of the Cathedral (St. Etienne), looking at a gargoyle with the roof of the church, buttresses and all.

I suppose since I'm a bit old-fashioned, I've posted a photograph of a rose today since it's Valentine's Day. This one was taken in Bourges this summer, out side the Cathedral (St. Etienne).

This is a photo from my trip to Europe this past summer. My Godfather and I visited some sites in Paris after I spent a while in Bourges. This photo is of La Defense, taken from atop the Arc de Triomphe. It's simple

Another photo from my trip to the mountains with Jen. I like the composition of this one, and it's a little change from so many architecture photos recently.

This photo is from Boston a couple of days ago. There was really low cloud cover which obstructed the top of high buildings downtown.

Straight out of your nightmares, here's another Stata Center photo. I'm not too sure about this one, I think it's marginally erie, though I wish there were something a little more too it. The depth of field is about right, though the brick wall may take up too much of the composition. I also have a color version which I may link to when it's not 4:30 am.

Yeah, I know this thing isn't actually a smokestack, but after a comment on yesterday's post, I quite like the idea of calling it a smokestack since it seems to have no purpose unless Mr. Gehry wants to enlighten us. Anyway, this is a shot of his Stata Center, part of it on the third floor outdoor area. I like the natural high contrast between various parts of the reflective material, though I would have liked to have had my circular polarizing filter handy.

This is my 50th post

I took this photo of MIT's Stata Center yesterday and was instantly pleased with how it came out. My favorite part is the way the building appears to engulf the sky, and the colors came out great. Just goes to show that photography near sunset yields the best results.
Over the next few days, I'll be posting a series of black and white photos.

I went to New York this weekend, but it was raining most of the time, so I didn't take any photos, except this one. It's pretty abstract, and taken from the bus on the way home, out the window, of the city as we passed by on the George Washington Bridge. The ISO was set really high, something I should have checked, but after a noise filter, I'm pretty happy with the result. The blue, white, and red lights are the Empire State Building, and the Chrysler building is over on the right, it kind of looks like a spring.

Today, I'm putting up a guest photo since I'm away in New York. Jen took this photo, and had this to say about it:

The picture is from the La Hagua batey (a very poor Haitian community) in the south of the Dominican Republic. The boy is one of the many kids from the batey where I spent a week building latrines and playing with the kids.

This one is from Boston's Haymarket a couple of day's ago, it's one of the Halal butcher's. I always think they look kinda sketchy, though I assume they have good meat, I'll stick to going to Sulmona's in the North End.

Took this one out the sunroof; I like the constrast of colors with the previous post.

Here's another photo from yesterday, this one of an entrance to the orange line; once again, more peeling paint.

I'm back in Boston now, and I took some photos today after meeting someone in Boston. This was on my way back, and I couldn't stop myself from taking a photo of the paint on this hydrant. I'm amazed with all the colors it was in the past, two shades of green, red, purple.

Another macro shot, this time of a glass bottle.

This was a macro photo of my globe at home, and I think the printing dots are really interesting. The colors, too, are great because of the dots. And of course, I can't wait to go back to Europe.

While walking to the T at Kendall Square one morning, I stopped to take this photo of the Marriott reflected in a puddle. I rotated the picture round so that it looks like the Marriott would be behind me, though it was actually in front. I'm not really sure how I feel about this photo, I love the color and the way the wind made the surface of the water distort the hotel, though I feel it could have been a bit better.

A photo of Boston's newly renovated Citgo sign, at the beginning of sunset taken from the Harvard Bridge.

This is a photo of a painting I made, which hangs on my wall at school.

A tree with some ivy. Couldn't decide on the orientation of this photo, it also looks good in portait, though I opted ultimately for the landscape version.

A tank and complementary catwalk on top of a building

From Boston's North End, this an alley photo, looking up at some fire escapes. Pretty plain, kinda sucks.

Here is another photo from my trip with Jen to the mountains around Caesar's Head. The spectacle of the mountains is too beautiful to capture on film (as Jen puts it), though we sure enough tried. Here is the result.

Not really sure how I feel about this photo. I took it on a whim in the alley behind my dorm. I like the illusion of the sky and the moon, along with the colors. There was a bright light on the right which created lots of lens flare which I cropped out, hence the square size.

This photo of a couple of fishmongers was taken at Boston's Haymarket right after I received my new camera. The guys were gruff, but nice nonetheless, and couldn't care otherwise if I took a photo. Sometimes I wish I liked fish.

This is another photo from MIT's Stata Center, though taken inside. It's the same location as this post. Some of my friends don't like the amount of black on the left side, but I quite like it myselft, I will admit, it does throw it a bit off balance.

Here's a photo of Jen from when we were out taking pictures in the mountains.

More from the mountains, this is a closeup shot of some ice crystals which formed along the side of the trail. I think they are extruded from the ground when it gets below freezing, pushing up the dirt, which stays atop the ice.

Along the same lines as the last two day's posts, though earlier in the morning, this sunrise photo was taken just as the sun rose above the horizon. The great view of the sunrise was all thanks to heading in the wrong direction!

Only minutes before yesterday's photo, I took this one of Looking Glass Falls in Pisgah National Forest. I underexposed it a bit since I was imagining processing it as black and white, and I am happy with the result. Once again, it's a shutter priority shot with the shutter open for half a second.

Oh, almost forgot. I took these pictures with one of the coolest person in the whole world. Jen, thanks for braving the freezing cold, and sorry for my inabiltiy to go a day without spilling something on you.

I went up to the North Carolina mountains with a friend this weekend, and we shot a ton of pictures. This one in particular is of the stream that flows over Looking Glass Falls in Pisgah National Forest. It's the classic long exposure of flowing water, and I like the slightly underexposed look. There will be several photos from the trip over the next few days.

This lady was affixing her new balloon sculpture to her head over in Boston outside Filene's. There was a guy making balloon hats, and had made them for the fifteen or so girls that were with the worman.

This is a photo of some sea shells outside, by the back door at home in Greenville. I'm really happy with how this picture turned out.

On another note, comments now work, though I don't have any input validation yet, so it would suck if someone posted something with information that was incomplete. It would also be bad if no one posted at all.

Since I saw this building in Boondock Saints today, I thought I would post a picture of it. Though I don't know anything about this clocktower, it has to be one of my favorite buildings in Boston. After I took the picture, I increased the contrast to get a bigger difference between the lit side and the shadow side.

Also, I've been updating the site some more, adding this comments box, for instance, which will eventually allow you to post your own comments. The layout has been altered a bit too, hopefully for the better. And last but not least, way to go Penn State!

Now that all my grades for last semester are in, I wanted to pay tribute to the gallons of Diet Pepsi which helped me through the final week of studying.

I've added a database for all the photos and posts, so now the website will begin to function better, and eventually, we will have comments. Let me know if there are any problems

Walking around Boston's North End one day, I took this photo of a building. I think it may be apartments, but I was struck by the angles and massive arches. Using manual shooting mode, I shot this at 22mm (35mm equiv.) at 1/400 sec sutter speed with an apeture of f/3.5 and ISO 100.

A view of a glass ceiling at MIT. I took it at 44mm (70mm equiv.) at 1/1000 sec sutter speed with an apeture of f/5.0 and ISO 100.

This is the same staircase as this photo, but taken from the bottom. I took it at 18mm (29mm equiv.) at 1/60 sec sutter speed with an apeture of f/3.5 and ISO 100.

For Aaeysha since she enjoyed seeing photos from the Stata Center. There was no editing here, this is simply the sky and a reflection of the sky in a window at Stata. This photo was taken at 39mm (62mm equiv.) at 1/320 sec sutter speed with an apeture of f/5.0 and ISO 100.

Looking though a building 36 window to the Cambridge Skyline. This photo was taken at 55mm (88mm equiv.) at 1/125 sec sutter speed with an apeture of f/5.6 and ISO 100.

A view from the top of the stairs in building 36 at MIT. This photo was taken at 18mm (29mm equiv.) at 1/15 sec sutter speed with an apeture of f/3.5 and ISO 100.

While flying home to Greenville from Boston the other day, I woke up just in time to see New York City. The sun was still low in the sky as it was early morning, and I managed to snap some interesting photos of the city where the water reflects the sunlight. This shot of boats heading out through the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was taken at 80mm (128mm equiv.) at 1/1000 sec sutter speed with an apeture of f/5.6 and ISO 100.

When it snowed badly a couple of weeks ago in Boston, I took this photo of some snow meltin on the window. I took it a 1/3 sec. exposure with an apeture of f/5.6 at ISO 100.

This photo of MIT's Stata Center shows a section of the Dreyfoos Tower as refected in another part of the building. I took this photo with a 1/160 sec. exposure at 3.5 f-stop with ISO 100.

For the next couple of days, I'm going to post a few photos from MIT's Stata Center. This one has the real sky on the left a reflection of the sky on the right, and the gold part is a reflection of the reflected sky, if that makes sense.

Today after I finished all my exams, I headed over to Boston's Newberry street to do some Christmas shopping, and I ran into this guy, black santa. The conversation went something like this:

Me:	"I don't see very many black santas"
BS:	(throws his arms in the air) "Man, that's what I've been saying to people."
Me:	"Can I take a photo of you?"
BS:	"Gotta get the word out about black santa."
Me:	(take some photos)
BS:	"Man, drop a twenty into my bucket man."
Me:	"I'm just a college student, I haven't got that kind of money"
BS:	"Alright, alright, I see, I see ... pause ... just drop a couple of fives then."

I give him a few dollars and wish him a Merry Christmas.
As for the photo, it's basically a standard night photo with a flash, and edited to be black and white and red.

Despite more exams today, here is a photo taken in Washington State at the beach, same place as this post. I took this with my point-and-shoot sony.

I take an exam today...

Despite my best efforts to study, I can't concentrate.

I took this photo last week in MIT's Stata Center. I exposed the shot for 1/200sec. at f/4.5 at a focal length of 80mm (128mm equiv.) with an ISO of 100. Look below, I added changeable background colors since some photos look better with a black background.

No thanks to Jessica (aka Jess), I sat out in the cold tonight to take this photo of the city against the frozen water in the Charles River. It was exposed for 6 seconds at f/3.5 at a focal length of 18mm (29mm equiv.) with ISO 100. The ice really draws out the reflections of the building providing a great effect.

Yesterday I attempted to construct a macro lens out of other old lenses, and the results are above. I'm pleased with my makeshift lens and look forward to making it more solid and increasing it's focal length. I used a flash at an exposure speed of 1/160sec at f/11. The content is from a print of a Corinthian column etching I have on my wall.

Took this in Northern Ireland, at the Old Bushmills Distillery, a favorite family day trip location during summer vacations when I was young. I was lucky to go back this year and enjoy some of the finest whiskey in the world. Taken with my Sony point-and-shoot camera.

The other day I looked up from my studies to notice a rich red glow filling my room. I peeked out the window, then threw on some pants as I rushed outside to capture some pictures of this spectacular sunset (I wish I'd taken gloves). Atop my tripod, the exposure was 1/13sec using my telephoto lens at 180mm (288mm equiv) and an f-stop of 5. The photo was slightly underexposed to get more of a silhouette effect, and there is minimal cropping.

This photo was one of the first I took with my new camera, the Canon Digital Rebel XT. It was my first attempt at a still life with the new camera, and I'm very happy with the depth of field and the wide angle of the lens. The image has been warmed up a little to make the scene reminiscent of the beer. This was a 1.3sec exposure, at 18mm (29mm equiv.) F/4, with ISO 100. I mounted the camera on a tripod and locked up the mirror while I did a timed exposure (another feature of my new camera I was eager to try).

So I decided to start a photo blog, and I'll post photos here periodically. For now, they'll stay around for a while, but later, I'll post every day. Eventually I'll make the site interactive so that it's more like an actual blog. I photographed this silhouette of a rock formation at Olympic National Park in Washington State with my point and shoot camera. We drove since early morning, and this was the final place we stopped; a brilliant idea since the beach and surroundings were beautiful.