Around the House

Took these quite a while back but never got around to posting them up. Just some pictures from around the house.





Our old well that we haven't used in years.

Charleston!

So me and Katie headed down to Charleston on Sunday for the day. We perused a massive aircraft carrier and walked around downtown a bit. It was a pretty fun day and I took a ton of pictures. So I'm just going to dump some on here.


The U.S.S Yorktown



Cool submarine we got to go through too.













She literally does the peace sign for every picture. Not kidding.



Downtown Charleston
























I found a LOT of fountains to shoot haha

Why I Love Film Photography

A lot of people now a days have all but forgotten about the film medium of photography. It is considered the OLD standard by most and antiquated by others. Though there are some such as myself that really enjoy the look and feel of film, most people are now children of the digital age. They shoot with DSLR's, which don't get me wrong are very nice and have a lot of advantages over film, but I for one just love film more.

Sure with a DSLR I wouldn't have to wait for the film to be developed, I could look at pictures instantly and know exactly what I took, and I wouldn't have to spend continuous money on film. However, the main reason I didn't start off with a DSLR and still don't have one is the price. Getting a nice camera body, lens's, and other equipment will run you over $500 and could easily go over $1000.

However my old Pentax film SLR from 1993 still takes just as good pictures as almost any DSLR that I have seen. Sure there is the usual grain associated with film but to me that just adds a little bit of personality to the pictures. Part of the fun for me as well is getting the photo's back from being developed. Every time I get a new batch of photo's developed I can't wait to get home and put the CD in my computer (I never get prints, just scanned onto a disk) and look over what I got. I feel like a kid on Christmas morning.

I love photography in general, and film especially. I don't know where this hobby is going but I am going to pursue it as far as I can. Wish me luck!

Race Day!

So no one is really quite sure how it got started but one way or another several of us at work challenged each other to a race/run. I actually thought it was a joke until i was told we were doing it this past week haha. We all met up Thursday night at Eastside High. So anyways I was there with camera in hand as usual.

Colin was looking very determined before the start.



Andrew deep in thought.



Katie was acting all Asian as usual haha



Adam, our boss and cohort in many things was mostly just walking around laughing at us and in general being demoralizing.



This is a cool looking fire hydrant.



I put Adam's sunglasses in a tree. I think it came out decent hahaha.



Pothole...Yep



And one of Andrew and Colin having their own race afterwords. Just to make it clear I captured this just how I wanted with the foreground out of focus and Andrew IN focus in the rear. Some people might not like the style though.

Brandon's New 240

My friend Brandon is in the Air Force and was just back in town for about two weeks. He managed to get rid of his old car and acquire a new one in that time and he wanted some pictures of it. I'm not all that happy with these it was super bright out and made shooting difficult.



I love his fitment even though 18's all around is a weird setup on s13's.