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Another blast from the past!
Being as this is Relay for Life weekend and I got involved with the Relay because my father battled and eventually lost to cancer, I thought it was a weekend I should dig up a doozy of an old-school photo of my old man.
Enjoy!
Smooth rolling...
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Another blast from the past!
This is a shot of my mother’s parents and her sister. Not sure of when this one was taken.
I wonder what was being discussed?
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The Lincoln Memorial
Whew!
After taking some time away from photo processing, I’ve finally caught up for the most part. On my Flickr account are several items I’ve taken over the past few months, including my trip to Washington D.C., a road rally, the St. Patty’s Day Parade in my town, some target shooting and a few other things.
That will teach me to wait, eh?
Last year, while I was participating in the Project 365, I always made sure to process photos on a regular basis. But as I’ve gotten away from it, I kind of let things build up a bit. Mix that in with the job hunt and some other projects and I’ve let them build. But I finally caught up and I’m glad as I’ve had a bunch of photos I was really happy with recently. Especially those from the Washington D.C. trip (note: I’ll have a post on Arlington National Cemetery and the Changing of the Guard soon as I want to blog about that experience).
I’m going to be running out soon and wanted to get a blog post up, so I want to post a few of my favorite images I’ve taken recently in this post. At the bottom will be links to each set as well as my Flickr account.
A geocache we found while out on a rails to trail bike ride.
Faygo frozen in time during some target shooting.
Headstones at Arlington National Cemetery
Washington D.C. at night
Vietnam War Memorial
To see all my photos on my stream, click here to go to my main Flickr page.
For the individual sets I’ve uploaded recently, click on their name below:
I have some images from the Phillies game I went to recently to get done and I have some things I’ll hopefully be taking photos of tonight and tomorrow, so we’ll see if I can keep up the quicker time. Enjoy!
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Faster than a speeding bullet!
Shooting makes for some fantastic photography.
I grew up around guns. My father was a cop and there were always guns in the house. However, we all knew what guns could do, so we never touched them or tried to play with them. We learned to shoot at a younger age so we knew the power of what a weapon could do.
When my father got sick a few years ago, I made sure to get my pistol permit so I could own his pistols. He had a couple remaining and I didn’t want to see them go somewhere else. I keep them locked up and have only shot them a couple of times — at target ranges.
A friend, Pat, recently got his pistol permit and asked me this past weekend if I wanted to shoot. Considering I had wrecked my arm/elbow the day before trying different ways of throwing discs at a tournament (seriously), I wasn’t up for shooting.
But…
I’ve wanted to take photos of the shooting process for a while. Another photographer friend took some wild shots of his brother shooting a while back, capturing the flame coming out of the end of a shotgun. Way too cool.
This was my first attempt at it and I have some ideas on things I’d like to do for future chances at doing this. Possibly this weekend, if all goes well.
Anyway, we loaded up a few containers with water and food coloring and got some cool shots. Too, shaving cream cans make for some awesome shots. Allow me to show a few of my favorite images I took of this process:
Some clay pidgeons being blasted!
Green water being sent all over!
Shaving can creamed into the air!
I’ve come up with a small list of items I might try and get to take photos of while things are being shot. It’s tough for sure as you have to be on rapid fire with the camera and hope like heck that you are clicking fast enough to get the good stuff. I’m hoping there are a few rifles and we can catch something coming out of the barrel a little better, but we’ll see.
Either way, this is a good photo challenge for me.I look forward to it.
If any of you shutterbugs out there have photographed shooting before, any tips?
If interested in some of the other photos I took that day, you can see them on this Flickr set.
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Another blast from the past!
Bad ass!
Yeah, you know it.
My old man was a bad ass back in his military days! Look at those wheels!
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