The Dark Side

I spotted this busty lady on the second floor of an abandoned building right on the main tourist drag in Zihuatanejo.

I was invited to play with a sea kayak yesterday, so I immediately jumped at the opportunity. Zihuatanejo Bay was pretty chopped up in the late afternoon, so I wasn’t about to attempt any photos while on the boat. But I did take a beach break and snapped a photo of the boat and some great clouds. Cover shot?

I had my first big night out on the town last night. The action gets started quite late in the evening. Fortunately for those of us used to rarified air, beers at sea level are a hydrating beverage.

What do you do when you have to go to a party, but you don’t have a sitter? When you are in Mexico you tell the kids to stay in the bed of the truck.

I’ve been sharing the Main House with some Rock Stars from San Fransisco. They played a gig out at the Playa Bar. All the usual suspects were there.

Mexican sound engineering.

Just a typical night view of the downtown area, where all of the world’s supply of mid 90s white Nissans are now taxis.

This is what I’d call a view lot.  No, I’m not staying here.

Here is another outtake from a portrait shoot.  I was wrapping up an engagement shoot at Boulder’s Red Rocks Park, when this random guy flashed me a peace sign.  I really like how the composition turned out.

There is a new thread on the Digital Wedding Forum, called the Creative Shooting Challenge.  The idea is to get up from in front of the computer and to go outside and take some creative photos at some point during a normal workday.  The challenge is to be creative, and take interesting shots in your normal, everyday surroundings.  Recent shots have been largely centered upon fall foliage, so I sought after something different on my way to lunch today.

And today is a gorgeous sunny day in Boulder. A great day to be outside . . . unfortunately I’ve got a SUPER busy week.  I did step out for lunch and take a quick shot outside the office.

We are experiencing the classically fickle Colorado weather right now.  It’s 66 degrees out and it feels blazing hot in jeans in the sun.  It made me realize that I took a picture out front of my office last week that I was going to post.  We had this much snow and it’s gone gone gone!

I finally found a breakfast burrito downtown that doesn’t have eggs in it.  It’s at Two Spoons, which also has cool tables.  And I got a free cup of hot chocolate.

It took me a while to get the angle of the focus plane just right.  I like the line of focus from one corner to the other.  This is with the tilt shift rotated at around 45 degrees.  I’m getting better at it, but it takes a while to figure it all out.

No, I’m not done posting pictures of this window yet. If you were to look out through the window, you could barely make out the legs of pedestrians as they walk down the sidewalk on 13th street. The patterns and how they change as you alter your viewing angle is quite entrancing. Sometimes it gives me flashbacks, man.

I was walking down the Pearl Street Mall the other day, and I had my super wide angle lens on the camera.  I randomly decided to shoot a little street photography, and held down the shutter button while walking past this musician playing the guitar.  I held the camera at my waist and shot it blind, so he wasn’t aware that I was shooting him. He may or may not have heard the shutter over his singing and playing, it’s hard to say.  I like the photo.

OK I’ve been posting way to many boring nature photos lately.  It’s time to get back to the normal tilt-shift randomness.  I haven’t been out shooting lately, so I needed some new material.  I’ve been looking at this subject matter every day for the last year and a half, and I was finally inspired to do something about it.

It’s true, just ask the groom-to-be. There is a certain inexplicable satisfaction that occurs when you can step outside and bond with nature first thing in the morning.

The morning view from the Meadow House at Lost Antler Ranch.