Reflections on Second Avenue - I used to work in the building on the left.  I shot pointing upward and was able to capture multiple reflections n each.
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall, Nacogoches TX

Well this is pretty much the oppesite of a glamour shoot!  We had a very strong storm pass through Texas yesterday and as far as I know we were lucky that there weren’t any major incidents.  We were planning for the storm all day and it ended up not hitting us too hard.  I was standing in the carport, watching a wave of rain come through and it hit me that I needed to practice my rain shots in case it’s ever raining on a wedding day.  So I set up a couple of speedlites on stands, just as I would at a wedding, and begged Nini to go out and pose in the rain.  The only catch was that we could only find one umbrella!  And I needed it to prevent my lens from getting drops all over it!  So Nini had to actually pose in the rain.  She was not happy about it, but her attitude fit perfectly with the lighting I created.

I processed this photo in Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS6.  In CS6 I used a batch of actions that I recently purchased from www.florabellacollection.com

I was really impressed by the actions and have learned a lot about photoshop by going through and dissecting their actions and seeing all kinds of new tricks I never knew how to do before.  Exciting!

Trivia question: Where’d I get the title for this post?  Don’t google it!

Critiques are always welcome.

Daily photo: May 22, 2013, taken May 21, 2013
May 22, 2013. I don't know what these are but I thought that they had a lovely delicate beauty.
The Grand Teton National Park, Wy Mormon Row 
 Photo # 55 
Good Morning, Hope you are having a good week
Thank You for your comments
May 22, 2013 This is Lynda, she is a 17-year-old senior that attends NC High School and will be attending Alvernia University upon graduation.  Lynda is one of the most fun and vivacious young people I have ever met.  She was so relaxed during the entire shoot, anything you asked her to do she did without question.  We had a great time with Lynda, I hope she had fun as well.  This is one of my favorite photos from the day.
Day 146 - Deep Space
OK... so I was showing yesterday's smoke shot to a friend at work and he suggested I try doing bubbles with smoke.  Seriously, don't give me a suggestion even in a half kidding way... 'cause I'll so try it!  So... this one is the best of that experiment so far.  It kinda reminds me of deep space.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013   

"ORANGE SHERBET"

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

SOOC, uncropped, no flash

The final photo of roses from our neighbor's (to the right) yard 

Thanks for your comments and have a wonderful Wednesday!

(photo taken 5/19/2013)
Portrait of a father and child, Dobu Island, PNG

Besides the male sorcerers, the Dobuan women also had a reputation for casting powerful witchcraft. Reo Fortune wrote in 1930 "The women of Dobu do actually possess…incantations which they believe enable them to fly by night to make mischief, to kill, to dance upon the graves of their former victims, to disinter their victims and in spirit hold ghoulish feasting on them. Meanwhile, the woman as 'an empty skin' stays asleep in her house."

See other new photos from Dobu Island here: http://goo.gl/I69Pt

100 mm, 1/100 sec, f 6.3, ISO 640, Flash fill
May 22
Reflections on Second Avenue - I used to work in the building on the left. I shot pointing upward and was able to capture multiple reflections n each.
Reflections on Second Avenue - I used to work in the building on the left.  I shot pointing upward and was able to capture multiple reflections n each.
Reflections on Second Avenue - I used to work in the building on the left. I shot pointing upward and was able to capture multiple reflections n each.
See photo in original gallery.

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