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That Enchanted VW Hippie Van

Ok, this deserves a story, and I am sure there are many stories it could tell all itself if it could. This is probably one of my favorite black and white photos I have taken lately. It's actually two pictures pieced together in just the right way. I wanted those that saw it to get the full picture of van. I took this picture while on a spring break camping trip to Enchanted Rock Natural Area in Fredericksburg, Texas. We had just gotten back from camping and there was this VW van from the 60's among all the modern hondas and suv's. It seemed sort of out of place, or possibly right at home. There is some irony in the slogans, made me laugh and realize how cool it was. You can even see some of the trees in the background through the windows.

On Screen Poetry

Was playing with the words on my computer screen in the camera. Took this fairly quickly using the zoom lens from across the room.

Old Tire Rims

Gotta Love That Smile

This is my friend and fellow officer Nora, and I felt this shot was post worthy enough cause I felt it really captured the moment and those goofy goggles put a smile on my face. I was taking some pictures at Bobcat Build, a local community service event, where my organization Phi Sigma Pi was painting a house for a local preschool.

Japanese Maples

Took this picture at the Botanical Garden in San Antonio. Had to lug around the Sony Clie digital camera to take some pictures. I always hate it when I leave the camera at home, and I miss an oppourtunity to take some better stuff. However the effect of this 2megapixel camera is kinda nice sometimes, in that it doesn't ever give you the perfect quality of shot you see sometimes. Makes for a different effect. Anyhow, I liked this one and brightened it up a bit to make it stand out.

New Lens!

After all this time I finally bought a second zoom lens. I have been using the Rebel 2000 for about 3 years with the factory lens only for pretty much all the photography I do. Some people can't shot like that, others its no problem. Personally I think it makes your more creative if you have less equipment to worry about. Cause slinging a camera plus lens, equipment, tripod, film and filters, plus whatever else you got makes for a pain in the a** sometimes.
So I tried lenses some out, and while I was there I managed to find 3 new filters, including one UV and one Polarizing filter for the new zoom lens, and an orange filter (mid range filtering) to help bring out the contrast of black and white photos. I bought a 70-300 Quantaray Zoom Lens at a great price, making it very affordable, about 80 dollars less than a Canon lens of the same quality. Haven't tried it out yet, but I am sure I will.

Night Sky in Texas

Found this cool picture in a stack of some recent stuff. If you are wondering what the white curves are, they are trails of a star, and some camera magic to get the final product. However the orange trails at the bottom I am not sure what they are exactly, or what I did again to get that effect. This was a long exposure shot, the shutter was left open for about 3 seconds in the dark testing out Kodax's new high definition film.