Personal Work - Building Museum

The image below is from a trip I made a few weeks ago to the National Building Museum.  The sunlight shinning through the buildings ceiling made for dramatic patches of light across the different levels of the building.  

If you're in DC,  I recommend checking out the building museum.  They have an impressive exhibition of Lego Architecture on display until September 5th, 2011.  

Personal Work - Photographing Musicians

  I don't normally photograph concerts or shows, but every once in a while it's something fun and different to do. The images below are from a show at the Rock and Roll Hotel in DC at the end of December. My friend Curren, from the Corcoran, asked me to photograph a holiday show that her band was playing.  

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Personal Work - Photography Camp

I spent half of last week teaching photography to kids at Camp Innabah in Pennsylvania. I didn't have much time to go into great depths about photography, but my goal for the week was to get them interested in taking pictures.  At the begining of the week, it took a little coaxing to get them to shoot even 10 frames.  Fortunatly they got the swing of things pretty quick, and were shooting wildly by the end. 

Photo Campers taking pictures Photo Campers at Innabah in Pennsylvania

Campers learning about nature

Personal Work - Luray Caverns Triptychs

Triptych panorama of Luray CavernsLast weekend I drove with Jackie to meet her parents at Luray caverns in Virginia.  They were there while traveling along Skyline Drive on a motorcycle for vacation. 

I've been carrying a small film camera with a 50mm lens on weekends as a way to separate shooting for work, and shooting for fun.  The 50mm F/1.4 lens was great for the low lighting of the cave, but the focal length wasn't great for getting images of the large rock formations. In order to overcome the limits of the lens, I decided to make a panorama in the camera.  I shot three images, and tried to line them up so when the film was viewed un-cut it would read like a panorama.  I didn't line up the frames exactly, but overall I think the effect worked well. 

Personal Work - Lightning Storms in DC

It seems like every other night this week in Washington, we've had lightning storms. 

During each storm (after I unplug all my hard drives and other photo equipment) I set up a my camera on a windowsill to capture photos of the lightning.  The way our apartment is situated in the building, we have a limited view of the skyline.  We could see the flash from lots of lightning strikes, but most of the lighting bolts themselves were obscured by buildings. 

Lightning strike in Washington DC