Engagement Snaps

This past weekend, Shannon & Company traveled with me to China Grove to set in place many details for our special date, May 22nd. On Sunday afternoon before we headed back to Fayettenam, I asked Shan's mom to shoot some pictures for me to edit later. Check them out...

Flickr-fied

There's been plenty going on lately, so I've added plenty to the flickr photostream. Feel free to see'em all...especially ones such as this that make you smile and wonder what is going on.

Kentucky Travels

This past week was a much needed vacation. Despite the small hill town of Cave City, the family & me had fun. We explored caves on foot & by boat, saw a racy but awesome performance put on by two talented actors in Red, White, and Tuna, and best for last...was out of work. There are many more pictures to be posted, but check out the flickr album of the vacation week. More will be added when the free time comes around.

Finally...Biltmore 2.0

I have finally got around to finish editting pictures from the Mother's Day weekend daytrip to the Biltmore Estate with Abby & Mom. It was fun. We received a nice gloomy gift of rain while we were walking around the inside for the tour, which added to the effect given off by the huge house. When we were finished with the inside, the rain cleared up for the usual humid afternoon. As usual, Abby was up to no good! Check out the pictures on flickr.

Tea Party Anyone?

Most of these pictures were forwarded to me in an email last week. Enjoy the protests against our radically changing government. Visit this site to see the 10 Most Offensive Tea Party Signs.

Biltmore Estate Photos

It's been close on two weeks and I'm still working on the pictures from my first trip to the Biltmore. There are still lots left to see and I will have them up soon...

End of Year Flickr

I've added some pictures from the past couple of months to my flickr account. Check out the November & December albums for all of them. There are plenty of odd punting shots. They look awkward.

DPS Portrait Contest Over

Thanks to everyone who voted and gave support on the portrait contest I entered last month. There were almost 2000 photos entered in the contest and I ended in the top 25.

Portrait Contest by DPS

If you have time to click the link below, vote for my portrait entry for the Digital Photography School Contest, hosted by Photrade. The contest is running for the full month of October. Thanks for helping out!
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Out of The Hill Country

Back from Sylva & the backwoods part of NC...got back in Fayetteville just in time for Hanna to dump plenty of rain around here. While up in the mountains, there were plenty of things to take pictures of. Check out the September Album or The Nifty HDR additions from the old paper mill near downtown Sylva. Time is flying by towards the house closing...very exciting!

August Over...Bring on Cooler Weather

Tomorrow morning I am heading back to China Grove for a couple hours, passing through, then on to the mountains...and will be there the rest of the week working at the tiny hospital in Sylva. September is just a couple hours away, and in less than three weeks I'll be in my first house(here in Fayettenam).
Oh, I posted a ton of photos from Cat & Saul's wedding shoot three weeks ago, a fun night downtown with the family, and the walk around the Botanical Gardens of Fayetteville. Check them out if you want to. The slideshows are the best.

New HDR Editions

Went out last night and took mainly some HDR(def) shots around downtown Fayetteville. Since it was overcast, the outside shots didn't come out the best. Anyway, Feel free to check out the slideshow of the HDR collection.

Vacation Over, Pictures Explain

So finally, I got away from work & took a needed vacation. Here below are some of the moments that were captured. Check out the album here or watch the slideshow. Here are just a few pictures from the album.

Photos a'Plenty

Just a couple of days past Independence Day & getting some time to head downtown to try out some new things...and this is what happens. Check out my HDR Gallery that has been started on flickr as well as July 4th shots & the rest of downtown mess of Fayetteville. The new lens addition(EF 17-85mm IS USM) is my favorite so far. There wasn't enough time to get into some night-time lapse shots, but that'll come soon.

Double the weekend!

The day is Wednesday & the workweek is done for me. Tomorrow, I am doing a little house hunting around the area then maybe having some relaxing time around the pool in Raleigh or elsewhere.

I also added some of the pictures that I took at the wedding this past weekend and some from the weekend before, near a relatives house. Check'em out.

Flickr Photostream

Since getting The New Canon XSi I decided to go with Flickr instead of Picasa due to load speeds & better features overall. You can view the my photostream here or click on the pictures of mom to the left. There will surely be more added soon. Next will be to get some quality glass to compliment the XSi's performance.

Completion on many more Pans

Alrighty, I completed a lot more panoramic pictures. Here are a few of them...plus you can view the full album here.

Home in China Grove, NC


Yosemite, CA


Yosemite, CA


San Francisco, CA


Abilene, TX


Me in the middle of Yosemite

Panoramics Everywhere

So over the past several years I have taken tons of pictures, especially many panoramic spreads to piece together afterwards. Well starting tonight I put together a ton of them. I will post a lot of them soon, but here is a taste of the span of what can be done these days with a digital camera and the power of a computer. Just as a heads up...these pictures are very large(but I still didn't upload them at their full size) and you might want to have a high resolution monitor to view them on. A few of the pans have close to ten pictures making up the full photo...making the field of view close to 180 degrees. Now that I have an extremely easy process of putting these together after taking them, there will be much more.

With a good stable surface you will get the best results...a cheap tripod will do the trick. Most of these were taken with a steady hand and a lot of work afterwards to make them look right. So, here is one of the largest pans I worked on tonight(early morning).

This picture above is the Half Dome at Yosemite National Park. As you can see, there is a lot more to see than a single shot. Click to see the entire picture...download on the right side of the page and see the full picture.

End of 2007 Pics

So yea, here are a few of pictures from the end of December last year. I haven't "acquired" all of the pictures yet, so more to come later sometime.

Pretty nice

Had an awesome weekend, despite recent events around. So, check out the new design here. I got a little bored on the weekend on Saturday and decided to change some things up, add some things, and just make it fresh all over. I'm really liking Google's PicasaWeb photo storage system, hence the image on the left. It'll take you to the entire collection.