180 Proof

Found this in a field near our Hotel in PA.
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Kodak Z760
Macro Mode
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Edits: contrast +12

Bomb or Balloon

Picture of a blimp around 2pm driving from Indiana
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Kodak Z760
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Edits: none

Shades of Blue

A picture of the mountains just after sunset in PA.
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Kodak Z760
Landcape Mode
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Edits: none

Est. 1888

A manipulation of a photo I took of the Washington Monument in D.C.
I tried to make it look like it was cut from an old film reel; I used a texture I made from another photo
and a scan of a negative.

.:Note me if you would like the texture or Negative scan:.

The main purpose of this is from what I've been seeing on CNN and other news stations, this new "war" in the middle east is being drawn out on TV like a film, you can’t tell if the anchors care about the people there, or just the story, so I created a "film" like image from something that most citizens respect.
To add, I saw the same thing at Arlington; at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, some people show up thinking it’s a free show, sit back and watch and talk during the changing of the guards, people going where they should not be going, they forget that it is a cemetery and respect should be shown, yet they act like it’s an attraction at some theme park.
One family had a kid playing and screaming after the change, and the guard turned about; and walked over to the parents telling them to please control the situation or leave, he stood there until they did and the father said a crude remark, and they left.

Red Four

I spotted this on the way home from Chicago, since we were in traffic I was able to get out and snap it quick. (just a portion of a building)
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Kodak Z760
Landscape mode
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Edits: crop

Teal Sky

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Asahi Pentax K1000
Kodak MAX
ISO 200
f/4
1/250
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Edits: Variation: yellow + lighter

Reflective by Nature

Well, while throwing around a football; I spotted this little beetle after the light hit it, real shiny!
If you look close in the green part, you can see the camera and my hand
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Kodak Z760
Macro mode
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Edits: Yellow photo filter, Contrast

4th. Star

Woodstock's Fireworks, near the end.
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Kodak Z760
"Night Landscape" mode
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Edits: Crop

4th. Three

Woodstocks' Fireworks
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Kodak Z760
"Fireworks mode"
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Edits: Crop

4th.Feather

Pictures from Woodstocks' Fireworks.
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Kodak Z760
Manual Mode:
ISO 200
1.0
f/3.5
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Edits: Crop

Tiny Dragon

Kodak Z760
Macro mode
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Edits: Brightness, Contrast

John's Retirement

An old John Deere tractor I found while riding home (bike) from my college class. Just sitting at the corner of a large farm, it had a for sale sign by it for a long time, but now thats gone and just the tractor remains. I'm going to get some more pics of it next class, I'll bring the tripod along this time.
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Kodak Z760
B&W mode
Iso 200
ss: 1/4000
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Edits: Photo Filter: red

Corn

Tractor
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Kodak Z760Macro mode (flower icon)
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no edits

Intrigued

The family cat; is not a normal cat, it thinks like a human.
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Kodak Z760400 ISO1/1000
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Edits: Channel Mixer, Contrast

Busy as a Bee

Well, it's a Bee... It's hard to get a macro shot of a Bee:
1. the Kodak camera needs to be real close to get it
2. I made it mad while taking it...
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Kodak Z760
Macro setting (the flower icon)
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Edits: saturation, contrast

Don't Wake

This is a small garden statue at my grandparents house, lighting was great saturday, so I went crazy with the Kodak camera (its nice now, since I found out it has manual settings)

Kodak EasyShare Z760
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ISO 200
shutter speed: 1/1000
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Edits: B&W, Contast
and I tried the HDR (downloaded an HDR converter program) thing that I've seen a few other photographers on DA do, but all it did wascreate a Diana Camera look when I converted it to B&W.

HDR: [link]
Diana Camera: [link]

The Rebirth

A second macro in this "style". Image of a Maple tree seed, aka whirligig or Helicopter.
Olympus D540 Zoom (3.2)
Macro mode
Edits: Contrast, B&W

Method Behind our Madness

Shriner guy, but the shriners have a different background then what people see.
Hand drawn/ Illustrator

Pure

Photo used for Scavenger Hunt project: photo II

Olympus D-540 Zoom (3.2)
Edits: Contrast, Color balance

A Different World

Macro shot of a dandelion while in seed, in the rain.
Olympus D-540 ZOOM (3.2)
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Edits: B&W, Contrast

Char-LEE BOT.

This is what you get when you mix the Tin Toy Robot, Charlie Brown, and Existentialism.

I'm going to do more of these, either of other famous cartoons, or just the peanuts.
(if you click on it, it's eyes blink, and it's kinda mesmerizing)

Soulless

I thought that the outcome of this photo made the buildings seem, hollow, non existant, almost a dead feel.
Asahi Pentax K1000
Arista B&W film 200
negative scan
Edits: contrast

In Time

An elderly man we passed on the Chicago trip (the China Town portion), I wanted to take a candid shot, so I kept my camera at my side and took the picture (I adjusted the focus on a wall that was about the same distance from me that the man was) But I had the camera to high and did not get the little boy next to him.

Asahi Pentax K1000
Kodak B&W film
Edits: sepia photo filter

The Mime

This is the Cloud Gate (aka The Bean) sculpture on the AT&T Plaza (stupid companies taking over Chicago) in Millennium Park.I took it at an angle I have never seen somebody take before, I was able to get some of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion (a realy sweet place when lit at night) and most of the sky, giving it the name The mime, since it "mimmics" the sky.

Asahi Pentax K1000
Kodak B&W film
Edits: none

The Son Comes

Nothing much to say, I just liked where the statue was in relation to the window, and the lighting was great, just had the wrong film in, which caused the fuzzyness

Asahi Pentax K1000
Kodak MAX 400 film
Edits: Grayscale

Tell it like it is

I thought that this placement was kinda ironic, as the Jesus statue is by the window with him carying the cross, and it's like the Angel is explaining it to him.
I picked this one out because of that scene, and I'm happy with how the lighting turned out.(same church as Overlook and Saving Light)

Asahi Pentax K1000
Kodak MAX 200 film
Edits: none

Overlook

This is the outside of the giant Saint Mary of the Angels (I must correct myself on "saving light", it's at Saint Mary of the Angels)
Well, other then being one huge church, it is run by the opus dei; a part of the Catholic church, no, they are not psycho killers.

Asahi Pentax K1000
Kodak MAX 200 film
Edits: cool photofilter, contrast tweak

Saving Light

These are windows in St. Hyacinth's Church in Chicago, HUGE church, and was proclaimed a basilica.I liked the lighting in this one the most.

Olympus D-540 (3.2)
no edits

Vertical Street

I believe that this is a bank, had crazy curved sides. Downtown Chicago round 830am, (taken from inside a tour bus)
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Olympus D-540 digital camera
Edits: contrast, warm filter, (grayscale)
I could not decide if I liked the grayscale or the color better, so I posted both.

Mixed Messages

I took this a while back with the Asahi Pentax K1000, black and white 400 film
The picture is much larger, but I thought that just this portion of it gave out the meaning more (giving it the abnormal size)
Asahi Pentax K1000
Edits: Crop, Sepia filter