144

The New York Giants running it down the field. These crop of pictures had better color than the last ones but they were still really dark. The combination of dark and fast moving people id not a good one. Most of the pictures had slight blur to them because I couldn't get a shutter speed fast enough to let in light and capture the action.

143

Hut. Hut. Hike!!! My brother playing football once again only this time it was exciting to watch! His team scored in the last 11 second of the game! Can you say cutting it close? 

142

The rain in this picture was on top of my Mom's car. After a little sharpening and contrast adjustment I changed it to a nice sepia tone and this is the result. 

141

I like the surrealism to this photo. To achieve it I took a long exposure and then quickly put the red part of the umbrella in front of the camera. This put a lot of red light into the picture and gave it this look.

140

This picture reminds me of an old horror story or film. Its almost like some sort of monster should come from no where and land writhing on the windshield of the car. Or is that just me?

139

Wow I just noticed that Blogger compresses the photos I upload because the picture here doesn't have the same sharpness that the original had.

138

I finally brought my camera to school! I think it was well worth it. People show so much emotion in pictures that you just can't get with pictures of nature. I also like the color even though it was in a mega unit with fluorescent lights.

137

An earlier post I did was similar to this on but some people thought that the power lines in the picture were distracting. I took this picture  to show that they don't have to be just distractions but instead they can be quite marvelous.

136

I need to start shooting more people, and before you in-vision me running around town with a sawed off shotgun I mean shooting pictures of people. The emotion that we poses always makes for great photos.

135

The contest only has 8 days left! So far you guys have been commenting a ton!

The standings are as follows:

1st: David -125 points

2nd: Travis -100 points

3rd: Jeff A. - 30 points

Remember the winner will receive a 8x10 print of any photo they would like from the blog.

134

Playing disc golf is a very common pastime for my family and it becomes even more fun when you play with friends. This is a great shot of one of those friends right as his disc goes flying off towards the basket.

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Even though I was supposed to be getting shots of my brother at his football game, I couldn't resist getting a few artistic shots as well. I love the DoF that this picture has. 

131

When the light is really dim outside move inside. I was a local art crawl and I just wasn't having any luck outside. So I went inside and upstairs to grab a few photos where there was some decent light.

130

Over the course of this year I have taken 9613 photos. If you add that to the 4298 that I took last year than you will find that I have take 13,911 photos. Now I don't know when I started taking pictures last year but I do know that I have been consistently taking picture from the beginning of this year. So if you divide 9613 photos by the 258 days that have passes this year you come up with about 37 photos a day. If this stays constant than by the end of this year I will have taken 13505 photos. Thats a lot of pictures!!!

129

This is the new family car! After dropping my brother off at practice I thought It would be a good idea to get pictures of the new car. It does look pretty good here if I do say so myself.

128

Another flower picture. This is another example of that back lighting that I seem to love. The bokeh is also amazing in this picture. The Canon rebel XSi has great bokeh. It is nice and round. I like it.

127

When I look at this photo I see lots of little fairies floating around in the field. 

126

I really like the look of a flower lighted from behind by a falling sun. Ive noticed that the blacks always have to be adjusted when the sun streams in like this. The strong light messes with the cameras sensors to shift the color balance.

125

Spider webs. Tons of color in this picture. The internet doesn't display all the colors that your computer can display so the colors always look over saturated on my blog.

Day 124

With the sun coming in behind these leaves the outline of leaves is highlighted. I think it really makes the leaves pop. One of my favorite pictures.